Debate.org members* should join the boycott of KFC

KFC primarily sells chicken pieces, wraps, salads and sandwiches. While its primary focus is fried chicken, KFC also offers a line of roasted chicken products, side dishes and desserts. [1] Boycott: To combine in abstaining from, or preventing dealings with, as a means of intimidation or coercion [2] ============================ ARGUMENT =========================== To sum up my opponents last argument, he believes that the members Debate. org should boycott KFC because it will make KFC change their ways. This is very wrong. For years PETA has been trying to get KFC to stop buying from the animal abusers. The members of Debate. org make up 17,756. Although this may look like a big number, there are roughly 303,824,640 Americans! KFC would most likely not even notice that big of a loss in revenue, they would simply lay off a few people. In the end, debate. org members would simply lose the pleasure of eating at KFC. Many people see the videos that PETA put up of people brutally beating chickens one by one. They also show how the chickens live in a horrible environment. This is not the case with all KFC birds. I worked on a large chicken farm last summer and saw how the chickens are treated. They were clean and well fed. The farmer explained how PETA looks for the worst case they can find and says that all of KFC's farms are like this. KFC gets their birds from many farms from all over the country. Not every farm abuses their chickens. It would cost KFC thousands upon thousands of dollars to send out private inspectors to every chicken farm where they get there chickens every six or so months. The prices for KFC are already high due to the cost of chicken feed. It would make the prices for the customers sky rocket. The dollar menu would be non-existent. It is a fact, some people just cannot and/or will not cook. There are some people out there who eat out pretty much everyday. I am sure that lots of these people are Debate. org members. Since KFC is apart of Taco bell, Debate. org members would have a much smaller choice. McDonalds is no where near healthy. They have frozen old meat, unlike KFC. KFC's meat is always fresh, and never frozen. It is served within seven days of the kill date. The chicken must be served within 1.5 - 2 hours or it must be discarded. They do not reheat there food like McDonalds, Wendy's, and other popular food restaurants. They even bread it on the spot! If Debate. org members were to boycott anything, it would be better to boycott McDonalds. We need to keep businesses like KFC alive to encourage other companies to make their food fresh. Here is what an employee has to say about cooking fresh at KFC. "As a KFC cook for nearly 18 years, I've continued the Colonel's tradition of serving my customers KFC Original Recipe chicken on the bone that is delivered and prepared fresh," said cook Tiffany Bakken at the Fort Dodge, Iowa KFC. "While other chains say they make fresh meals, I've experienced firsthand that KFC maintains the highest standards by serving fresh KFC Original Recipe chicken on the bone prepared by a trained cook in our restaurants across the country" In April 2007, KFC became one of the first restaurant companies to complete a transition to a zero grams trans fat per serving cooking oil for its signature fried chicken products and potato wedges. While the large majority of the menu was impacted by the change in cooking oil at that time, a few menu items required additional reformulation to complete the transition. With the introduction of the Fresh Tastes Best campaign, KFC also completes its menu transformation with all menu items now containing zero grams trans fat per serving. Mac and cheese, biscuits and chicken potpie have joined the other favorites offering zero grams trans fat per serving while staying true to the flavorful and home-style taste KFC fans love. [3] Something else to consider. Even if KFC was shut down, or forced to downsize,many people would be put out of work. Lots of these people needs these jobs, and can not afford to lose it in today's economy. Not only would KFC employees be fired, but farmers as well. farming in America is already a hard job, we need to keep all the farmers we can manage. After all these things, there is still one more thing to say. KFC is good, and the day that we let animals rule over humans is a sad day indeed. Humans rule the animals, not the other way around. The resolution has been negated. Thank you. Sources: (1). . http://en.wikipedia.org... (2). . http://dictionary.reference.com... (3). . http://www.kfc.com...