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    Ke$ha offers to pay for McDonald's slaughterhouse revamp

    By Author WENN | world entertainment news – Sat, Oct 15, 2011 09:43 BST

    Pop star Ke$Ha has offered to personally fund the installation of new equipment at McDonald's slaughterhouses in a bid to end alleged fowl cruelty.

    In a letter sent to McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner, on behalf of animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), she reveals she "practically puked" after learning the fast food chain is "spending more than a billion dollars on store renovations but won't invest a dime to upgrade its suppliers' archaic slaughterhouses".

    Ke$ha writes, "Please explain why you won't listen to your company's own advisory panel and follow the lead of McDonald's in Europe by switching to the modern method that would spare chickens killed for McNuggets from having their legs and wings broken, having their throats slashed while they're still conscious, and being scalded to death in de-feathering tanks."

    Offering to help fund the changeover, she adds, "If the cost is what troubles you - despite the fact that your profits are way up because everyone eats cheap during a recession - let's talk. I may not have the $ (money) that the Golden Arches (McDonald's) has to throw around, but I'd be glad to lend a hand in helping bring your suppliers' slaughter practices into the 21st century."

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    15 comments

    • nibner
      nibner  •  7 months ago
      James, Adam and Anthony what utter beauts you all are. Your priorities has to be everybodies? Because you say? Animals in most countries have no rights. Humans at least have a choice. Check farming practices and the cost to the earth and maybe you can come back with a more intelligent less retarded statement than you gave on here. I will take a guess that you dont even financially support childrens charities.
    • Nicola
      Nicola  •  7 months ago
      First of all can I just ask which country this is referring to USA or UK? Also can I state that it is glaringly obvious that she has not offered to pay for the refurbishments - merely contribute "lend a hand" stating a difference in her wealth and theirs is mean't to appeal to the powers that be to use some of their substantial wealth to sort the slaughter houses themselves. Perhaps an element (although just an opinion) of I would why don't you.
    • Simon
      Simon  •  7 months ago
      I think only this chick is like the only celebrity who actually cares about stuff other than money. I think I'm officially a fan lol.
      You can say whatever you want to about her music, but can't say that she isn't a good person.
    • LIZA
      LIZA  •  7 months ago
      I do understand that there are many people living in poverty and being treated badly but does that mean we can kick the s**t out of animals?? I'm far from an animal activist, and am partial to a maccy d's, but they should fork out a bit of dough....
    • ♪♫ BubbleGumPop ♪♫
      ♪♫ BubbleGumPop ♪♫  •  7 months ago
      How can people still want to be apart of something so cruel, i can and will never get my head around wanting to eat something that has been scared and suffered etc. One day we'll look back on this era and thing we were a bunch of barbarians!

      Vegetarian/vegan food is sooooo tasty and better for you but because people have been brought up on meat and purposely sheilded from how it actually lands on the plant they continue to support this sick industry....It boggles my mind so much....An animal is an animal whether it be a cat, dog, cow, pig or sheep....If you wouldn't eat your pet then you shouldn't want to eat any animals or fish.

      I find it really upsetting :( 60 billion animals killed a year for meat and the worlds population is just over 6 billion) So gut wrentchingly awful!
      • Darwin
        Darwin 7 months ago
        As a species we eat meat , that's why your front teeth are sharp at the front , specifically for tearing flesh , you might not like it but we are what we are.

        You may wish to spend your life eating pulses and lentils but given the choice between eating meat and starving to death , you would eat meat.
      • Hugh E
        Hugh E 7 months ago
        In the natural world, animals almost invariably spend their last few moments of life being pursued by a predator before being caught, violently killed and eaten. It is a case of what goes around comes around, because most of them will have themselves done something similar to other animals at some stage in their lives (even normally herbivorous animals will usually eat meat if they get a chance). The real natural world is nothing like the sanitised Watership Down of cute, cuddly fluffy bunnies portrayed in nature programmes. It's a brutal and cruel place where the only priorities are to eat, to breed, and to avoid being eaten before the breeding part is successful. The population of any wild animal always expands to the point where disease, starvation and predation keeps it in check, so wild animals invariably spend most of their lives in a state of hunger, burdened by parasites and disease and in constant fear of being eaten. When you look at it that way the life of farm animals isn't so bad, in fact it's paradise compared with what wild animals go through. By eating meat, yes you are killing an animal, but it's a quick and humane death which is more than compensated for by the life that animal had free from hunger, predation and disease. So, if you care about animal welfare, perform an act of kindness today and eat some meat!
      • Andrew
        Andrew 7 months ago
        Actually it's largely a myth that being a vegetarian is better off for you. Numerous studies have shown that eating predominantly white meat is better for you than being a vegetarian. Although it has also been shown that being a vegetarian is better for you than eating predominately red meat. But as this article is about poultry slaughterhouses the vegetarianism is better for you is somewhat invalid.
    • Corxin L
      Corxin L  •  7 months ago
      Or she could just boycott McDonalds altogether? Surely if she feels that strongly about animal cruelty then she'd want to see no animal killed. As for her revealing she 'practically puked" when she heard the story I practically puked the first time I saw her on tv. You talk about McDonalds' serving manky food but she's a total dog's dinner.
      • Carol d
        Carol d 7 months ago
        Why do you assume she eats in McD's ayway, nothing in the article suggests she does. Getting any multi-national company to bring pressure to bear on their suppliers will do more than any one individual boycotting their outlets, like it or lump it, we're not going to turn the world vegetarian any time soon! As for your comments about how she looks...irrelevant or what?
      • Adam
        Adam 7 months ago
        Agreed with Carol. She is not going to be able to change the way the world eats any time soon so at least make the killing of the animals as painless as possible. I don't think she looks to bad either!
      • Carol d
        Carol d 7 months ago
        She's offered to help, nothing wrong with that is there?
    • Anthony
      Anthony  •  7 months ago
      Adam - I agree 100%. Kids are dying, being abused, and murdered all over the world and this idiot is talking about spending money to help chickens???? Some people really need to get their priorities straight...seriously
      • Andrew
        Andrew 7 months ago
        How do you suppose she can change all this, people have always been abused and killed and proably always will, human nature being what it is. Change happens slowly, at least she is making a positive contribution. She is only one person. All the wealth that has been sent to Africa and what difference has that made, zilch. She doesn't have enough money to change the world so she is tackling something she can do something about.
    • James
      James  •  7 months ago
      Disgraceful, people staving in the world and she wants to give money to a multinational company, shame on you
      • LIZA
        LIZA 7 months ago
        Because people are starving does that mean it's ok for animals to be treated badly?? that makes no sense....they have no choice in what happens to them but people continue to have children they can't afford to feed.
    • Adam
      Adam  •  7 months ago
      people are treated far worse in many countries where is the sympathy for them? when we stop slaughtering elderly women and children by the thousands maybe we could look at chickens. speak out about something that matters if you dare
      • Andrew
        Andrew 7 months ago
        Well it obviously matters to her, even if you don't agree, look at the billions sent to the 3rd world, not made any real difference at all. Change won't happen until people change and that happens very slowly. It doesn't mean that where cruelty exists, either against humans or animals that you should standby and do nothing.
    • Sarah
      Sarah  •  7 months ago
      She's talking about USA. The UK don't use McDonald's owned slaughterhouses, they purchase their meat from independant farms. And why even bother trying to help animals die in a less sufferable way? Shouldn't our main concern be preventing the death of other humans?
    • Charlotte
      Charlotte  •  7 months ago
      bit of a waste of time but at least she's starting with the um more minor things
    • Darwin
      Darwin  •  7 months ago
      Lets all eat lentils and hold hands man ...
    • Natalie
      Natalie  •  7 months ago
      Better than not caring at all?
    • Miss Axelrod
      Miss Axelrod  •  7 months ago
      It's nice to see that she is willing to spend her money in an unselfish way. Neither people nor animals deserve to live their lives under unnecessarily cruel conditions.
    • Darwin
      Darwin  •  7 months ago
      As far as I am aware McDonalds don't own any abbatoir's , all there meat is purchased through 3rd party suppliers which supply direct to McDonalds own supplier (Called OSI) , I also don't think that Ke$ha realises quite how much an abbatoir costs to refurbish.
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