 Okay so there's some breaking news and this is actually quite shocking so I remember a while back this guy Niko he's a huge YouTuber he's got like 4.4 million subscribers he was on a channel called Joe UK it was a paid advertisement basically where it's like KFC and Moy Park have contacted Niko's people and got Niko down to this chicken farm to like use Niko's popularity to kind of humane wash the chicken industry and KFC's farming practices it was a joke this video it turns out that VFC Matthew Glover and VFC the vegan chicken company have investigated the exact same farm Moy Park farm that Niko was in and just recently VFC have released their response video so I'm going to go through it and react to it this is what's really behind the bucket straight away you can see Matthew holding one of the dead birds part of KFC's behind the bucket commitment to better chicken welfare they invited Niko a YouTuber to come and visit one of the farms that supplies their restaurants hello my friends I'm Niko and I'm on a farm the video footage was shared extensively online as a paid promotion looks incredible you're very welcome paid for by KFC like they used Niko here they exploited Niko and his reputation here and his popularity to humane wash something that is incredibly cruel so Niko if you're watching you should be angry at this KFC chose to bring Niko down here when the birds were really small and cute they were maybe 15 to 20 days old we've come back when they're 33 days old wow it wasn't too long after Matthew and VFC went down there it's only a few weeks because few weeks with chickens makes all of the difference do you really do care about these chickens though yeah we do ah that's painful they really care about these chickens yeah they're doing this to these chickens because they care about them that's why they're mass breeding 50 000 chickens in a shed in these Frankenstein bodies that they can't even exist in without suffering because they care about these chickens or no do they care about getting a big paycheck from KFC which one is it Tony what about these chickens do you care about birds like these three here who they've got to the point where they can't stand up anymore because the skeletons are so immature they just can't handle the weight so they get to a position where they just can't walk anymore they can't feed all right Tony I want you to address their conspiracy theory that KFC pump chickens with steroids and make them huge nobody grows chicken like that see how they love no no we don't do anything like that but you should actually see what we do do nobody in the animal protection movement claims that farmers are using steroids antibiotics yes and what we do object to is the selective breeding of these birds over decades so that the birds take on so much weight that they can no longer stand up they're blowing these chickens up not necessarily using steroids but selective breeding techniques and that's why these little baby birds are in these overgrown bodies why do the chickens have a swing they don't at least not when they're not expecting the camera crews here aha the swing wasn't down but do you see what they do see what the propaganda you know that they just disseminate to the world you know the chickens have a swing like I was in a pig farm and the pig had a little bit of wood on a rope to nozzle with their nose you know the chickens they have a swing they've got water we feed them they're sheltered like don't act like you're a vet or like like a chicken sanctuary where you just love chickens it's insane fails the birds to pack out and all the enrichments that we put inside the shed we found one swing that they can reach and that's for 52,000 birds it's just nonsense they put little bits of enrichment around just to satisfy the welfare guidelines or something like this or to make themselves feel better or something but it does nothing for the chickens like the chickens are just in horrible condition by the time they're at slaughter weight it's just a little swing isn't going to change anything put 30 swings in there it's not going to change anything there's no cages here I thought there was like 4,000 chickens in one small cage well Nico there's 52,000 chickens in one cage actually just one really big cage there is no cages I'm afraid Nico's getting confused with the egg industry where even today they are still using cages for the hens but at the moment there's no such thing as a free range egg so they're all either in barns or in these enriched cages so because of bird flu they haven't even the free range hens haven't been let out how is it a lot different in the chicken industry they have no access to the outdoors they have no natural light they're just stuck in these horrible factory farms for the whole lives they're short lives they're short and horrible lives it's just this perpetual cycle of just growth and suffering and killing constantly so people can have chicken legs out of a bucket at kfc very proud of our animal welfare here we're very proud of the animal welfare here if you listen to a farmer about animal welfare you've been tricked in the first plenty of room to roam you tell me do these birds have plenty of room to roam each bird has about as much room as an ipad do you see when Nico was there they were so small but when they grow up boom they just feel they fill up the entire shed and it makes sense financially for them to maximize the amount of chickens in that space to maximize their profits of course and that's what they care about they don't care about oh we're so proud of our welfare we give the chickens a swing nonsense they care about making money from kfc and so do kfc will sprinkle fresh straw across the floor area for them to play with and sit on even if it was true like you just if when vfc went in there there was just like fresh straw on the ground like it would make no difference i don't care if you spread fresh straw on the ground when there's all these frankenstein chickens in these overgrown bodies dying on their faces and about to go to a gas chamber to be killed sprinkling some fresh straw ain't going to get you out of that moral problem it's not exactly straw it's a mixture of wood chip and feces yeah and that's what it looks like on the floor of a chicken farm it's like this caked you know poo and wee ammonia and like wood chips and it's like clay at the bottom and it will stick to your feet and that's what the birds have to walk around on and that's what they fall on and get ammonia burns on and they just because they're like at such a low level so the chickens are really close to it they're smelling that it's disgusting inside a chicken farm the stench sticks to you oh i was hoping we wouldn't find any dead birds but um look at this one so kfc thinks it's acceptable for around about four or five percent of all birds to die in the farm this one barn has 52 000 birds which means that roughly two two and a half thousand birds are going to die within 35 days of their life cycle is that acceptable and we worked it out like actually it was like i think now about 380000 birds on this particular farm i think it was about something like 16 000 birds will die and they don't just die they suffer and die they lay down and they start to slowly shut down over time lying on their own feces and then they die most likely in pain how the hell is that good chicken welfare yeah if there's a 4.37 percent mortality with like you know nearly half a million chickens that's fine there's thousands of birds dying on their faces before they even get to the slaughterhouse and people talk about humane slaughter like oh yeah no they get slaughtered humanely well what about the birds who suffer and die on their faces in the in the barns they're forgotten about we're very proud of our animal welfare here look at all the dead birds very proud of our animal welfare here look at that shocking you know what i mean this is what we found outside the barns and then there's bins out the front there you go 13 to 15 000 birds will suffer to death here every 42 days so that's not just so that's every cycle so they accept a 4.37 percent death rate mortality rate every flock and that's every 42 days they change the flocks that's just one chicken farm in the UK and the crazy part of it this is the chicken farm they're using as the gold standard this is the one they're promoting to everyone and brought nico there to exploit him and give him a script to read nico doesn't care about that i don't think nico to be honest with you cares about this they just used him his social media fame gave him a probably a bunch of money for this and he's just spouting words off of a script which is a shame because nico's got such a large following of young British teenagers who are just going to lap this all up and feel much better when they go in to buy a kfc with their friends kfc have been improving chicken welfare for years the reality is that over time intensive chicken farming is getting worse so tony's not really a chicken whisperer he's the farm manager of park farm north kettletop near lincoln now this is one of my park's flagship agricultural academies wow flagship agricultural academy tony's farm is one of the best that's why kfc came and filmed here so you can imagine what the rest are like wow that's such an impactful statement matthew just made this is one of their best and that's why kfc filmed here you know what i mean this is the model this is their this is their amazing farm that they use for advertising and that is what it looks like imagine the other farms you know and we've seen a bunch of the other farms actually but that's this is such an indictment on kfc and moey park like i don't think people realize how much of an indictment this is this was what they were promoting as their best kfc needs to commit to moving away from the intensive factory farming of chickens like this and work on a kinder more sustainable plant-based chicken commitments i like the idea of that commitment not better welfare commitments these welfare reforms have been around for so long like they just don't all they do is make the consumer feel more comfortable about buying the meat they still have to mass produce meat the better commitment would be a plant-based commitment and kfc know how to make plant-based chicken they can make a whole plant-based range they've got the food scientists to make the best plant-based chicken on earth right they really do if they focused their attention on that they have to shift away from this sooner or later so we might get sued by kfc for this or moey park who run the farm or even tony the chicken whisperer but we feel that people want to know where their food comes from and they deserve to know where their food comes from and we don't think they want to buy food from places like this they'll be interesting at kfc and that tried to sue because uh what these images show would be pretty hard to defend in court actually so you know you can still shop at kfc um they do a really good vegan filet uh vegan chicken burger it's a corn filet um and it just saves having to put thousands millions billions of birds through this type of suffering it's just so unfair yeah get the vegan burger from kfc you know what i mean made by corn and then when they replace that that vegan burger you know what they do they replace it with a corn patty and they support corn from making mushroom what is it micro protein patties boom boom boom but when you buy the chicken they replace it with these poor little birds boom boom boom so you want to create the demand for plant based products and kfc need to just get rid of growing their food off of sentient conscious beings i think there's around a billion chickens slaughtered in the uk each year usually it's about 95 percent are factory farmed this is what indoor intensive chicken farming looks like um you see this all the time i see this all the time it's just the standard and when are people gonna wake up these big companies are investing in these big propaganda campaigns because they're kind of worried about this progressive change and moving away from cruel products okay so that's why they're pumping money into this stuff and getting like people like nico to come and spout nonsense and humane wash their industry the guardian made an article on this it says kfc has been accused of a misleading portrayal of chicken farming yeah well misleading that's an understatement so then they quoted matthew glover so matthew glover actually co-founded veganuary and vfc he's a great activist and he's done some really great things continues to do great things matthew glover vfc's co-founder said this is the most disingenuous marketing campaign we have seen for a long time the portrayal of chicken farming is utterly misleading and seeks to reassure the public that all is well when nothing can be further from the truth well said matthew in response to the allegations let's see kfc's response we all know it's going to be nonsense we take the welfare of the chickens in our supply chain extremely seriously wherever i heard that before they must have the same pr agents all of these every time there's an expose a we take the welfare of our animals very seriously red tractor user every single company user whenever they're exposed or we take animal welfare very seriously no you don't no you don't you take financial gain extremely seriously and whatever's on the back end of that who cares why would you care about a chicken when you're making billions of dollars can't even get the average person to care about a chicken let alone a massive corporation we will continue to work with moi park to ensure these standards are being met and we will continue to drive transparency which is an important part which is an important part of our welfare work so they're not going to drop moi park because of this so that that says a lot i mean if they've cared about taking the welfare of the chickens extremely seriously they would drop moi park immediately they would stop actually selling chicken immediately you can't care for the welfare of chickens while you're chopping them up and frying them can you that's not very good welfare is it removing misconceptions and ensuring accountability across the industry look you are not going to drive transparency transparency would ruin your industry actually what you'll do with your transparency would be propaganda you'll control the narrative you won't investigate your own farms would you that would be transparency you go in there investigate it film film when the farmers aren't ready go in there get a kfc investigator and then to go film when the farmers aren't ready do that that's transparency but you won't because you don't care about that so don't don't lie with your nonsense your pr manager to make these nonsense quotes it's frustrating me right now it's making me angry actually a spokesperson for moi park oh here we go todd the guardian and we could imagine what the spokesperson said claims such as these are treated incredibly seriously and we will immediately review and we immediately reviewed the footage along with independent audits and veterinary reports this farm is managed god here we go here we go are you ready for the pr spiel like means nothing now this farm has managed to a very high standard and our preliminary findings show that it is meeting those standards the birds are displaying natural behaviors and the farm adheres to all stocking enrichment and welfare requirements if they're meeting all the welfare requirements you can see how low the bar actually is so that you're looking at the footage right it's horrible and the industry going now that's normal there's nothing wrong here crazy here we go the company said the staff visit sheds a minimum three times a day to access the health and welfare of the birds a small number of birds may die between those checks and are identified and removed during the next inspection so if you do any inspections three times a day and there's already all these birds dying on their faces and dead birds everywhere how many birds must be dying in there how often and you're saying you're removing them each time how many are dying like do the maths the spokesperson added that people in a shed at an irregular time could also affect the birds movements ah go on so they're blaming the activists now the audacity to blame the activists the audacity this is what they do they try to pass off responsibility of the activists weren't in debt in there the you know it wouldn't have affected the birds movements like come on mate and then stewart jones director of upload agency which represents nico said whilst we take these allegations very seriously and we'll speak with kfc about these claims the filming that our client took part in accurately reported the conditions he saw an experience on the day look i don't think this is nico's fault and i don't think anyone should think this is nico's fault i think he should be a little bit wiser to this in the future but they took him in and they tricked him but he should be careful next time promoting animal products so there you go kfc busted big time here nico should never have got involved moi park they just tortured chickens for kfc to get a big fat paycheck never listen to industry people when it comes to the welfare of these animals they don't care primarily about the welfare of the animals they're not animal sanctuaries they're making money off of their exploitation and killing okay kfc stop using chickens to grow food chickens are not food they are sentient conscious beings and this is a moral abomination kfc change your menu to plant based okay this is disgusting what's going on to these chickens just so you can make money and you can create plant based alternatives that taste the same and you know that you have the best food scientists in the world support vfc chicken go buy vfc chicken if you think what happens at kfc is disgusting you don't want to support the company at all and finally just don't fall for the propaganda ever don't fall for their propaganda okay if they truly cared about the interests of the animals they wouldn't be exploiting and killing them period everyone go to the vfc youtube channel share the video around share it far and wide protest moi park in kfc raise awareness get online and social media comment i'll leave the original joe video down below for you i'll leave the vfc video expose a down below as well share it far and wide do what you have to do i'm going to be doing a little action myself off the back of this because this is really really powerful stuff um they've been caught red-handed and we should expose them further so let's get together as a movement and get behind this help this expose a be shared to those who need to see it thanks vfc and i'll see you all in the next 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