INDEPENDENT: KENTUCKY FRIED CARNAGE? FAST-FOOD GIANT IN A FLAP AFTER "TORTURE" EXPOSE
With a casual wink and a cheeky smile, Kentucky Fried Chicken's founder, Colonel Harland Sanders has urged generations to sample his "secret recipe". Little did customers know that live birds were smashed against walls, spat on and tortured before being turned into Popcorn Chicken and Oven Roasted Twisters.
NEW YORK TIMES: KFC SUPPLIER ACCUSED OF ANIMAL CRUELTY
An animal rights group involved in a long legal dispute with Kentucky Fried Chicken about the treatment of the 700 million chickens it buys each year is to release a videotape today showing slaughterhouse workers for one supplier jumping up and down on live chickens, drop-kicking them like footballs and slamming them into walls, apparently for fun.
July 08, 2004
MEDICAL NEWS TODAY: FRANCE DID NOT DETECT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF BSE INFECTED ANIMALS
France had a BSE epidemic and did not detect it. A report by French Government researchers says that nearly 50,000 severely infected animals entered the food chain.
BBC: SHEEP LIKE SMILES SAY RESEARCHERS
Sheep can recognise emotions in facial expression, not only in their species but also in humans, researchers say. Researchers at Cambridge University have discovered sheep prefer smiling or relaxed human faces, over angry or stressed ones.
CNN: WESTERN DIET HIKES STROKE RISK, STUDY FINDS
Add stroke to the list of health problems caused by a Western diet rich in red meat, white flour and sugar, researchers have said.
WEBMD: DIET LINKED TO NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA
What's causing America's huge surge in blood cancer? It might be our diet. It's called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It's a killer collection of different white-blood-cell cancers.
