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It is the first time cameras have been allowed access to KFC.
A KFC spokesman said: ‘Animal welfare is essential for high quality food and is important to our customers, and all of KFC’s suppliers meet or exceed UK and EU welfare requirements. KFC was the first quick-service restaurant to gain Red Tractor certification and we have in place ouFast food: One of KFC's branches. KFC say that all their suppliers meet or exceed UK and EU welfare requirements
‘Millions of these birds, just like the ones KFC is commissioning to be produced die in sheds wretchedly and painfully every year.
‘These birds are deprived of everything that makes life worth living. The next step after this is to be grabbed by their frail legs, and shoved in crates and taken off to slaughter. A great number suffer broken bones during this process.’
A BBC spokesman said the documentary offers ‘an impartial look at KFC, one of the UK’s most recognisable businesses’.
As one of the UK’s most popular fast food chains, it sells almost 400 pieces of chicken every minute.
But now conditions on the farms that supply KFC with 23million chickens a year can be shown for the first time.
The images show tens of thousands of chickens kept together in huge sheds, alive for just 35 days before they are gassed.
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Life on the farm: Supplier Andrew in the shed filled with 34,00 chickens destined for the fast food chain KFC
The thousands of chickens live together in huge sheds for just 35 days before they are gassed
A documentary tonight shows the birds living amid their excrement in conditions activists say are ‘oppressive’ – but the farmer in charge claims it’s ‘a very good life’.
Footage to be screened this evening on BBC1 focuses on one farm where about 34,000 chickens are penned into a shed with few windows.
When they are large enough the chickens are gassed, chopped into nine pieces and sent to warehouses in large trays where they are then distributed to branches nationwide.
The farmer in charge claimed the birds had 'a very good life' and showed how they were healthy
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