Fast Food and Animal Rights: An Examination and Assessment of the Industry's Response to Social Pressure
@article{Adams2008FastFA, title={Fast Food and Animal Rights: An Examination and Assessment of the Industry's Response to Social Pressure}, author={Ronald J. Adams}, journal={Animal Law eJournal}, year={2008} }
Fast food chains such as McDonald's, KFC, and Burger King are major players in the production, marketing, and consumption of animal-derived food throughout the world. Animal rights activists are quick to point out the link between the highly efficient factory farms that supply these chains and extreme animal cruelty and environmental degradation. Strategically, fast food is well positioned to leverage change in the methods by which animals are raised and processed for human consumption…
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