Chain urged to be less cruel to chickens
By Joyzelle Davis, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published December 20, 2007 at 12:05 a.m.
PETA has submitted a shareholder resolution asking Chipotle Mexican Grill to give preference to chicken suppliers that use a "less cruel" method of slaughter, the group said.
PETA is lobbying Chipotle and other fast-food restaurants to buy poultry from suppliers that use a method where the oxygen that chickens breathe is slowly replaced by inert gases.
Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold said specifying such a protocol isn't practical just yet because it isn't used in a large enough scale to supply the chain's restaurants.
"Our current standards have us purchasing more humanely raised, naturally raised meat than any other restaurant company," he said.
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ebmfck writes:
Give me a break! Slow asphyxiation is more humane than instant death by lopping off their heads? These people are nuts!!