Chickens are remarkable, intelligent animals with distinct personalities. Animal behaviourists say that adult chickens are just as intelligent as cats and dogs. Most importantly, they feel pain, just like you and me.

Despite this, the more than 700 million chickens killed by KFC each year for its restaurants lead miserable lives and suffer terrifying deaths. They are crammed by the tens of thousands into sheds that stink of ammonia fumes from the accumulated waste, where each bird has about as much space as a standard sheet of paper, and they can never see the light of day or enjoy anything chickens would enjoy in nature.

The birds routinely suffer broken bones from being bred to be too heavy for their own bones, from callous handling (workers roughly grab birds by their legs and stuff them into crates) and from being shackled upside-down at abattoirs. Chickens are often fully conscious as their throats are cut or when they are dunked into tanks of scalding hot water to remove their feathers. When they are killed, chickens are still babies less than 2 months old-though chickens have a natural lifespan of 10 to 15 years. Nonetheless, these babies are just as sensitive to the fear and pain as any other living being.

The ‘C’ in KFC stands for cruelty. These animals are suffering, but you can help them. There is only one remaining outlet of KFC at Bangalore. Let us get them out. Ask KFC to get the ‘cluck’ out of India!

Write to the chief minister of Karnataka and ask him to cancel KFC’s licence:

Write to KFC and tell them to stop playing ‘fowl’: