Ronald McDonald Opens Up About Abusing Animals
posted by: Heather Moore 80 days ago
A lot of people think clowns are kind of creepy; they’ll probably agree that comedian Andy Dick‘s portrayal of Ronald McDonald is pretty eerie—and amusing. In a FunnyOrDie.com exclusive, “Ronald” tells Jiminy Glick (aka Martin Short) how much he enjoys snapping chickens bones and scalding them alive.
The video is rather humorous, in a sardonic sort of way, but there is nothing funny about the way McDonalds’s U.S. and Canadian suppliers treat chickens. The terrified birds are slammed into metal shackles and hung upside-down, which often causes broken bones, severe bruising, and hemorrhaging. Many chickens have their throats cut while they’re still conscious and they are often scalded alive in the tanks of boiling water used for feather removal.
As a longtime vegan, I would love for McDonald’s only to sell faux chicken and other vegetarian options, but I’m realistic—that isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Until it does, McDonald’s should at least take steps to minimize animal suffering.
One way McDonald’s can do this is by requiring its suppliers to use a less cruel slaughter method called "controlled-atmosphere killing" (CAK), which painlessly puts chickens “to sleep” by removing the oxygen from their environment and replacing it with an inert gas, like nitrogen or argon. If people insist on eating chicken, this technique is the best available way to reduce the birds’ suffering.
In 2005, McDonald's produced a report stating that CAK is significantly more humane than conventional slaughter methods, yet it still hasn’t required any of its U.S. or Canadian suppliers to switch to CAK. (McDonald’s European suppliers are already working to implement CAK.)
Until McDonald’s requires it’s U.S. and Canadian suppliers to switch to CAK, PETA will be holding eye-catching demonstrations at McDonald’s restaurants across North America. PETA’s “chicken” mascots are even handing out free Unhappy Meals, which contain a menacing “Ronald McDonald” cutout, a “blood”-filled packet, a “bloody” plastic chicken, and a “McCruelty” T-shirt wrapped like a chicken sandwich, to McDonald’s customers.
To find out how you can take part in a protest at McDonald’s—and to hear the shocking things "Ronald McDonald" said in outtakes from his interview with Jiminy Glick—see McCruelty.com.
Read more: chicken, humane, slaughter, mcdonalds, animal welfare
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Fortunately for me I only ate chicken so it was not difficult to become partly vegetarian (I still do eat shrimps and eggs from a free range and hopefull no-kill farm "Rosa Farms"), especially after seeing what goes on in the farming industry, also there was that footage on KFC on the news and that stopped me stone cold. People should have a choice of what they want to eat and it is the government that needs to change their system and penalize these large companies for animal cruelty for as usual, there is always a more humane method but I guess it is cheaper to do the inhumane method. I would campaign to educate the consumers and I'm sure that if many folks know of this method, I didn't until reading it here, these big industries will be forced to make the switch. The government did it with Transfat (which is definitely not the same as these horrendous methods and conditions that the farm animals have to endure)....
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talk of animal welfare often turns into a veg. debate because it is a good way to ensure that this cruelty doesn't continue. as long as you eat meat at fast food restaurants, you are the sponsor of what you have just read about. mcdonalds or any other place has no incentive to change as long as people keep eating there. my guess is that most people who don't fare well on a veg. diet aren't eating the right foods. don't give up. read up first, then try again.
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Why does everyone take these kinds of posts as an oppurtunity to try to turn everyone into vegetarians? We cannot, I repeat, CANNOT all be vegetarians. Not even in this country. I have tried it and failed miserably. I need meat in order to keep my food consumption to a minimum. I actually GAINED weight as a vegetarian because I was eating MORE often.
About the McDonalds, yes they should use more humane ways of dealing with their animals. But as with any major corporation, they are all about profit and that means they like to cut corners. I do not eat their food as it causes my face to get greasy and ucky and I feel sluggish and gross when I do. I'd rather just do the 89 cent menu at Taco Bell, the food there tastes better anyways.
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Mc Donalds is making it more and more less appealing to eat their food. I use to order there but now I go else where.
I do not, I repeat, I do not support animal cruelty.
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These are God's creatures and they have the same right to life as we do.
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This is simple animal cruelty and those doing it should be prosecuted, whether it is McDonalds or some crazed hunter or fishermen. A country as developed as ours should be vegetarian anyway. We need to set the example. These are all God's creatures for God's sake.
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I stopped eating meat because I simply couldn't support the killing of animals anylonger. What goes on in the meat industry is beyond horrible. I have no words to discribe the sadness I feel for the animals of this tired little planet .. It is time for the human race to wake up!!!
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I am slowly turning away from eating meat, chicken etc. The horrid conditions that these animals have to endure is beyond the pale. I have cats and I am also refusing to buy anything that comes from China with fake fur, which in reality is from dogs and cats that have been slaughtered and skinned while still alive. A barbaric practice that needs to be stopped. And the pet stores here in the states need to stop purchasing those items and we Americans need to stand up and refuse to buy such items from these stores.
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Keegan, You DO have a choice ~ I CHOSE to go vegetarian because I couldnt stand the way those Precious , feeling sentient animals are Tortured in both life & their slaughter ~ It is just EVIL ~ I am not vegan only in that I will eat eggs raised here TRUELY free range and fed healthy on a family farm ~ I will not eat dairy or factory farmed eggs or buy things made from animals such as leather ~ Its not just fast foods places that torture & kill these innocent , helpless animals in a Horrible & Evil way but ALL places who get meat through factory farming ~ So those who eat meat are basicly saying its OK to the cruelty ~ If there was no DEMAND for it then they would have no reason to do it ! For those who dont really care about the animals then at least think about yourself & your families HEALTH ! Do some research and find out what is IN the meat & dairy you feed your family ! As for me I know I am not contributing to the torture & murder of innocent animals & to the ruin of our inviroment to selfishly have meat on my plate ~ It is a CHOICE that EACH of us as an individual MUST make . I used to be a meat eater but when I thought about & saw on videos and in books what I was a part of I stopped eating meat & dairy RIGHT AWAY ! Its been a year & 4 months and I will never go back~ for the animals sake AND for my Health ~ Just to let you know I am SO much healthier than I was when I was a meat & dairy eater and I honestly dont miss it a
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The suffering of any animial should be stoped
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