Fat Cat Chef

The Peta video of chicken abuse at Pilgrim's Pride -- a Kentucky Fried Chicken supplier -- isn't a big surprise to us here at the Fat Cat Animal Welfare Institute.

We haven't watched the video and don't plan to (it makes our hair stand on end), because we've known all along that factory farms are disease-ridden industrial machines that have a shameful legacy of animal mistreatment.

But the thing that you factory farmers haven't figured out is that your product -- chicken, beef, lamb, you name it -- tastes lousy. And it's due to the way you raise your animals and the mechanized processes they're exposed to.

That's right, when you jam animals into cramped, unsanitary cages and pump them full of hormones and antibiotics, you're going to produce flavorless chicken and meat. Oh, and you're going to set the stage for the very abuses that occured at Pilgrim's Pride when your misguided beancounters focus on "production units" and not animals.

So our beef (so to speak) with the Peta video goes beyond the animal welfare issue -- as humans we have a moral obligation to ensure that our food supply is treated humanely -- and focuses instead on the taste issue.

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We always buy Bell & Evans chicken. It's all-natural and tastes like, well, chicken. And the chickens look just a tad bit happier than ol' Bo Pilgrim's chickens.

And here are some happy feel-good photos from the Moorefield, WV plant where the abuse took place. No word on whether anyone in the pictures took part in the abuse (like I said, we didn't watch the video).

And of course the "shocked and appalled" press release. (Haha, you guys crack us up...)

And what visit to a factory farm wouldn't be complete without the Pilgrim's Pride story! Hasn't been updated yet to include the PETA abuse video, but stay tuned.

Finally, in case you were wondering: No, we don't eat at Kentucky Fried Chicken; I'd rather take a backside dropkick from one of those Pilgrim's Pride hoodlums.