【Petition】Fast Food Companies! Please shift from chicken to alternative meats!

We’ve launched a petition to reduce the suffering of (broiler) chickens who are made into “Japanese chicken”.

As a result of severe selective breeding for weight gain, 1/4 of the broilers are said to live under chronic pain 1/3 of their lives. Because they grow so fast, even if they aren’t slaughtered for meat, they are said to not live long.

The chickens, who get killed only 40-50 days after birth, spend their entire lives inside. With their growing weights, the poultry shack becomes increasingly crowded, and their bodies get dirtier without being able to sandbathe.

Like human children, young chickens love new interesting things. If they were to go outside, trees and the sky and the nature that change their sight daily. Bushes and bugs, the shifting Sun, and the shades. There are many things that get them excited and give joy in living. But these chickens can never see that their whole lives.

Shifting from animal-based foods to plant-based foods does not only reduce suffering of the animals. It leads to solutions of various issues including global warming, water pollution, antibiotics-resistance bacteria, welfare of workers in poor environments, zoonotic diseases, and food safety.

Following “beef”, plant-based alternatives to “chicken” are ever expanding. This year, KFC began selling plant-based fried chicken in the US and China, followed by Burger King releasing plant-based chicken nugget in Germany.

We’d like the fast food companies in Japan to also follow suit.

We request fast food companies in Japan to make the compassionate choice for the Earth and the people, to stop the cycle of mass production & mass consumption and reduce the suffering of the chickens.