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for live action alerts, pick a way to protest:
- DIRECT SEND - EMAIL, FAX OR MAIL
For best results, send comments directly from you, instead of bundled into a web petition from Kinship Circle’s server.
- AUTOMATED WEB PETITION
For least effort, send comments as part of an internet petition.
Sometimes web petitions create a spam effect that angers recipients and hurts outcome for animals. Recipients can also easily block web petitions.
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option #1: direct send - email, fax or mail
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email your letter:
- Copy SAMPLE LETTER below. Paste it into an email.
- Change some words. Sign name, address, country.
- Copy EMAIL ADDRESSES. Paste in TO: line of an email.
CLICK SEND, from whatever email program you’re using.
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fax or mail a printed letter:
- Open sample letter as a DOC or PDF.
- Change some words. Sign name, address, country. Print.
- Fax or mail your letter using CONTACT INFORMATION on this page or in the DOC or PDF.
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sample letter ~ copy/paste into an email
jump to web petition instead
CONTACT INFORMATION • Print/Send This Letter
TYSON FOODS
Gary Mickelson, Tyson Spokesperson
Tyson Foods, Inc.
2210 W. Oaklawn Dr. • Springdale, Arkansas 72762-6999
ph: 479-290-6111; email: gary.mickelson@tyson.com
SOURCE: www.tyson.com/Corporate/PressRoom/
John Tyson, Chair And CEO
Tyson Foods, Inc.
2210 W. Oaklawn Dr. • Springdale, Arkansas 72762-6999
corporate web mail: www.tyson.com/Corporate/Contact.aspx
Michelle Johns, Tyson Food Service Concierge
ph: 1-800-24-TYSON (1-800-248-9766)
email: michelle.johns@tyson.com
consumer web mail: www.tyson.com/FoodService/Contact.aspx
KFC CORPORATION (Customer of Tyson Foods)
KFC Corporate (for comments)
P.O. Box 725489 • Atlanta, GA 31139
Customer Satisfaction Numbers: (U.S.) 1-800-225-5532; (Canada) 1-866-664-5696
web mail: www.kfc.com/contact/default.asp
SOURCE: www.kfc.com/contact/default.asp
KFC Corporation
1441 Gardiner Lane • Louisville, Kentucky 40213
ph: 502-874-8300
Laurie Schalow, KFC Spokeswoman
ph: 502-874-8100; email: Laurie.Schalow@kfc.com
YUM! BRANDS, INC. (Owns KFC and other fast food chains)
David Novak, Chairman, President, and CEO
Yum! Brands • 1441 Gardiner Lane • Louisville, KY 40213
ph: 502-874-8300; fax: 502-874-8790
Peter Bassi, Chair, YUM! Restaurants International
14841 Dallas Parkway • Dallas TX, 75254
Yum! Brands Restaurant Support Center
1900 Colonel Sanders Lane • Louisville, KY 40213
ph: 502-874-8300
web mail: www.yum.com/contact/Checkage.asp
SOURCE: www.yum.com/
*Kinship Circle cannot guarantee validity of email addresses. During campaigns, recipients may change or disable their email addresses.
Emails from government or corporate websites may be incorrect.
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SAMPLE LETTER • Print/Send This Letter
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I respectfully ask KFC, Yum! Brands and Tyson Foods, to do more to alleviate suffering for millions of chickens raised and slaughtered for
human consumption.
Recent allegations depict gratuitous cruelty at Tyson slaughterhouses in Union City, Tennessee and Cumming, Georgia. This is not the first
time animal abuse has been documented at a KFC supplier. A 2004 videotape exposed employees of Pilgrim's Pride twisting off the heads of
live chickens. At the Moorefield, West Virginia plant, workers spat tobacco into the birds' eyes and mouths, spray-painted faces, and crushed
them against walls.
A 2004/2005 investigation at a Heflin, Alabama Tyson slaughterhouse revealed more animal mistreatment. Now, 2007 footage of Tyson kill
floors shows birds impaled, beaten, beheaded and violently thrust into shackles.
Supervisors at the Georgia and Tennessee facilities apparently engaged in abuse or were informed about it. One told a worker it was okay to
tear off chickens' heads who'd been clumsily shackled by their necks instead of legs. When birds died because their heads and legs became
ensnared under a door at the end of a conveyer belt, a supervisor ignored the problem.
Most consumers would be appalled to know automated blades often slice birds' bodies rather than throats. Yet a supervisor cognizant of these
mutilations accepted them as a side effect of an imperfect machine. A worker confessed to bashing a chicken against a rail until he shattered
the bird's back. A back-up killer was observed knifing birds in their neck areas.
This is blatant violence. I call upon Tyson Foods to fire employees implicated in animal abuse. Please monitor all kills floors and hang areas via
video camera and employ your own undercover investigators to report cruelty. At the very least, Tyson, Yum! Brands and KFC ought to
advocate "controlled-atmosphere killing," a less agonizing mode of slaughter.
I urge Tyson to enforce animal protection guidelines and KFC to better supervise its suppliers. In fact, KFC and its owner Yum! Brands, should
require Tyson and other suppliers to crack down on cruelty.
Until measurable strides are taken to administer these improvements, I will ask friends, family and colleagues to not spend money on your
companies.
Thank you,
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contact information
Most alerts have multiple email recipients. If one or more emails bounce that does NOT mean all emails failed.
Forward email failure messages to: info@kinshipcircle.org
Please do not send us hostile notes if an email bounces.
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SOME (BUT NOT ALL!) EMAILS MAY BOUNCE:
- Official websites list outdated or incorrect emails.
- Recipients block or change addresses if swamped with emails.
- Technical errors: A server may be down or not accepting email.
- The email recipient’s inbox is full (over quota).
- Occasionally the same email address will work at a later time.
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option #2: automated web petition
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Click on any thumbnail above — or visit Kinship Circle’s entire LITERATURE LIBRARY, to browse animal topics and easily download materials. Download FREE high-quality literature for use in: Education Settings; Tabling, Demos; Presentations; Letters, Articles; Media Press Kits…
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• Tyson Workers Caught Torturing Birds, Urinating on
Slaughter Line
• PETA Investigative Footage Shot At Two Tyson Plants, Fall 2007
• PETA Investigative Video At Alabama Tyson Slaughterplant, 2005
• Tyson Probes PETA
Claim
• USDA Investigates
Animal Abuse Claims At Tyson Plant
• Additional research for contact information: Bridget Soeder, Kinship Circle Research
Director
• VIDEO: Video Of Workers Abusing Cows Raises Food Safety Questions
• STORY: Video Reveals Violations of Laws, Abuse of
Cows at Slaughterhouse
aburgess@recap.com writes: The more hits this video gets, the higher its
placement on the page. You don't have
to view video to simply view the article and count your viewer-ship.
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DISCLAIMER: Information in these materials is verified with original source. Kinship Circle does not assume responsibility for accuracy of information or for consequences of its use. Nothing on this website intends to encourage illegal action in whatever country you are reading it in. Kinship Circle does not engage in, nor support, any form of harassment or unlawful action. Nothing in this alert serves to promote such conduct.
EMAIL ADDRESSES: Kinship Circle cannot guarantee validity of email addresses. During a campaign, recipients may change or disable their email addresses. Email addresses obtained from government or other official websites may be outdated or incorrect.
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