KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK. Ditched voluntary pledge to improve animal welfare. Corporate pledges mean nothing when it comes to profits. Only legally enforceable requirements can hold corporations to account. www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no... - ThreadSky

premnsikka.bsky.social • 93 days ago

KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK.

Ditched voluntary pledge to improve animal welfare.

Corporate pledges mean nothing when it comes to profits.

Only legally enforceable requirements can hold corporations to account.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/23/kfc-drops-pledge-to-stop-using-frankenchickens-in-the-uk

Comments

susiequin.bsky.social•92 days ago

Well not a problem.Don't eat from take-aways especially US ones.

garretthide319.bsky.social•92 days ago

That’s ok. I am pledging not to buy KFC anymore. I don’t like Frankenchicken.

himminycricketh.bsky.social•92 days ago

Another one of those corporate Brexit benefits? Disgusting!

triassic.bsky.social•92 days ago

“Only legally enforceable requirements can hold corporations to account.”

I would suggest that legally enforceable requirements str a waste of time. Consider sewage and energy price gouging, no action taken.

peterjohn.bsky.social•93 days ago

Don't use KFC - never have, never will.

lrt73.bsky.social•92 days ago

And that’s me done with KFC.

janegooding1948.bsky.social•92 days ago

Let’s boycott KFC .

equiton.net•92 days ago

What they really mean is 'the poultry industry can't provide enough chickens at the aggressively low prices we are prepared to pay, so our profits aren't affected'

frankhopper.bsky.social•92 days ago

Winging it.

steve-fforde.bsky.social•92 days ago

I would boycott them over this, but I've been boycotting them over quality for so long already!

chrisdocstrange.bsky.social•92 days ago

Going back to their old ways huh?

If only we were in some kind of single market that wouldn't allow that. 🤔

pollyhobbs.bsky.social•93 days ago

Never had it, never will.

ellydavis.bsky.social•92 days ago

Doesn't mean anything to the people who will still buy there.

cmprxngle.bsky.social•92 days ago

KFC now off thr menu for me 🙄

furiouslyphoto.bsky.social•92 days ago

I ate a KFC chicken something or other, about 20 years ago - that was it; never again.

susanf.bsky.social•92 days ago

Never eaten KFC, never will. If they don’t care about animal welfare I don’t care to contribute to their profits

dianeray.bsky.social•92 days ago

It's horrific. If you go to Youtube, there are a lot of vlogs about homesteading and many raise Cornish Cross which eat constantly, are obese in weeks, don't grow feathers properly, become unable to walk and quickly die if they're left.

jfritte.bsky.social•93 days ago

Almost grabbed kfc nuggets yesterday on my way home… glad I didn’t now

lostinalostworld.bsky.social•92 days ago

We can improve the animal’s welfare by not killing it for the sake of a sandwich.

daveygoodison.bsky.social•93 days ago

I sampled their 'food' once. It was vile greasy muck.

lilyleonard.bsky.social•92 days ago

But those 11 different herbs and spices mmmmm 🤣🤣🤣

vidurkapur.bsky.social•93 days ago

The vast majority of chicken sold in the UK comes from fast-growing breeds that live in appalling conditions.

There's a reason KFC couldn't meet their pledge - boycott the entire industry.

wokeratirock.bsky.social•92 days ago

Boycott KFC, that’s awful and shameful 🐔

theninthdragon.bsky.social•92 days ago

https://file-cdn.mercyforanimals.org/mercy4animals.wpengine.com/sites/450/2024/09/Frankenchickens-Report-2024.pdf

sherbsville.bsky.social•92 days ago

The only way to not support deliberate animal abuse, is to be vegan, but sadly ppl aren't ready to hear that. I don't think they ever will be.

I don't think any of the supermarkets who sell corpses from these places will stop either. The demand from the public is there, so it will continue.

💔💔💔

sparkyrob73.bsky.social•92 days ago

And we wonder why we need so much legislation? Because big companies will put nothing above profits if they don’t have to

urgocakelord.bsky.social•93 days ago

Not surprised.
I was informed, in the 90s, that I shouldn't consume veggie burgers from this business as they're cooked in the same fat as the chicken.
Profit always seems to trump good business practices.

sarahsallyr.bsky.social•92 days ago

No problem. I'll just continue to #AvoidKFC

itsamycrow.bsky.social•93 days ago

I stopped eating their food in the 90s due to animal cruelty reports. Never gone back and glad of that fact.

ianward.bsky.social•92 days ago

But we can boycott all of them! (As I do.)

silvermairi.bsky.social•91 days ago

This is shocking …. Thank God I don’t eat there 😱

jamaisprete.bsky.social•92 days ago

Far too many people don't care about the conditions the animals they eat are kept in. Not that there's much choice. Supermarkets only stock minimal organic meat, just a few packs of organic chicken in my local supermarket, compared to stacks of factory farmed meat.

aaandrelax.bsky.social•92 days ago

Yeah - I think KFC is now firmly off the menu.

njs1992.bsky.social•92 days ago

KFC used to be that girl for a while but in recent years it’s been on a steep decline. It’s always lacking in quality and feels like a rush exercise but its prices seem to be jumping. It’s an easy skip from me in future.

karlnottage.bsky.social•92 days ago

Well if they can’t honour the animal welfare, then I can’t eat there anymore

dirk1978.uk•92 days ago

Everyone is free to do what I did and refuse to participate in the whole rotten meat industry. It's beautifully liberating.

highspeedzero.bsky.social•92 days ago

Oh yes. Obviously they should have done something that proved impossible.

dundonaldpatrick.bsky.social•92 days ago

The same could be said about government!

borisnorris.bsky.social•93 days ago

It depends on what their competitors are doing. If the pledge puts you at a competitive disadvantage; if your customers don't care about the product, just the price, then the 'pledge' is bound to be dropped.

varedna.bsky.social•92 days ago

Sad, but true. A part of the problem is that a 'pledge' isn't enough. If they wanted something to stick to they should have pushed to improve the standards by how the chickens are raised.

borisnorris.bsky.social•92 days ago

If customers don't care, then legislation would provide a 'level playing field'. Businesses would prefer that I suspect.

nrunky.bsky.social•93 days ago

The epitome of neoliberalism, regulation is ok as long as it doesn't stop profiteering

hennike.bsky.social•92 days ago

Kindness

Free

Chicken

nix4shore.bsky.social•92 days ago

Alternatively don't buy the stuff

vegan-4-indy.bsky.social•92 days ago

The 'ordinary' uk chickens are cruelly slaughtered from 6 weeks after being 'farmed' in horrific conditions in Intensive Factory Units. 300k in the uk every day.

So there's no Animal Welfare anyway 🤔

arsey99.bsky.social•92 days ago

I pledge not to use KFC (not a difficult decision...)

truesocialistsonly.bsky.social•92 days ago

Never been
Never will go 😫

benphotographer.bsky.social•92 days ago

If you eating KFC in the UK, the US, or anywhere they have franchises, then, well… you have little understanding or care for how it is created, you just want a big ole bucket of fried skin, and ain’t nothing gonna stop you.

mixitupdeedee62.bsky.social•92 days ago

For reasons I won't go into, I was stuck with KFC the only food source one night. The pieces were REALLY SMALL (compared to how I remembered them) and had a weird, rubbery texture. It was horrible. I ate the chips cos I was famished, but binned the WEIRD 'chicken'.

toddlenrant.bsky.social•92 days ago

Ugh

owildwizardo.bsky.social•92 days ago

The solution is easy - dont eat kfc. Why do people anyway, it absolutely sucks. I can buy bland badly prepared food at the corner store far more cheaply.

johngu47.bsky.social•92 days ago

Someone ELSE to boycott!

j1drvr.bsky.social•93 days ago

Well KFC can go bye-bye.
Reading the replies, yes it has changed. No longer crispy but soft and oily.
It used to stay crispy.
It also highlights the poultry industry.
Their lack of responsibility, gearing more towards profit.

nicholasbannan.bsky.social•93 days ago

Simple - don’t buy the muck.

fartypantsmcgee.bsky.social•92 days ago

They're dropping the pledge because it's too hard to find farms producing suitable chickens. That means chicken farming standards must be pretty awful across the board.

susanf.bsky.social•92 days ago

KFC are such a big company that they could choose to champion animal welfare from suppliers and be a market leader in raising quality standards Unfortunately that would cut into profit margins

ivorbolakov.bsky.social•92 days ago

Minford 2012

duartefj.bsky.social•92 days ago

Or maybe let corporations run their business as they see fit and you don't buy their products if you don't want to 🤷🏻‍♂️

implausibleblog.bsky.social•93 days ago

Awful

colg.bsky.social•93 days ago

KFC: DON'T USE WON'T USE!

zenzi10zi.bsky.social•93 days ago

200,000 chickens a day in the UK.

That's just KFC

Three quarters of a billion killed annually in Australia.

We can have the ones that grow big real quick or the kind that need extra loving care, take three times longer to grow, using more food, more resources, more space.

Or have a salad.

julie1176.bsky.social•93 days ago

If they can't find enough high welfare chickens, there's a very simple answer to that isn't there? Don't buy their chicken, then they won't need so much.

thinkitthrough.bsky.social•93 days ago

No KFC for me then.

dibbleysdad.bsky.social•92 days ago

Wouldn't feed that shite to a dog anyway

ctj13.bsky.social•93 days ago

Just awful, these companies are a disgrace.

shakerpainter.bsky.social•92 days ago

Unfortunately I don’t think this will be a concern to the consumer who chooses to buy chicken from a bucket.

elainep.bsky.social•92 days ago

Exactly.

pennyrose.bsky.social•92 days ago

Or we can use the power of our numbers and stop eating KFC? Not that I eat there anyway due to allergies but just saying. We Brits don’t work together.