Animal Rights instead of Meat Lunch at Wendy's !

Kerrii_Anderson@wendys.com, Denny_lynch@wendys.com, Dave_near@wendys.com, Ian_rowden@wendys.com, Jeff_cava@wendys.com, Jonathan_catherwood@wendys.com, Brendan_foley@wendys.com

Wendy's International, Inc. / Wendy's Consumer Relations
One Dave Thomas Blvd.; Dublin, OH 43017

Bob Bertini, Director, Consumer Communications
One Dave Thomas Boulevard; Dublin, OH 43017

Wendy's Restaurants of Canada / Consumer Relations
240 Wyecroft Road; Oakville, ON  L6K 2G7


Dear Executives of Wendy's Restaurants:

I am dismayed by Wendy's lack of animal welfare reforms since the company
pledged in 2001 to initiate improvements. Wendy's has yet to diminish the
misery of animals slaughtered for its products.

Wendy's pig meat still originates in factories that warehouse 600-pound sows in metal gestations stalls for a motionless life atop cement slats. The animals, who cannot shift position, inhale ammonia and hydrogen sulfide
fumes from manure heaped under their crates.

Wendy's eggs are derived from producers who pack 6-9 hens inside wire coops
no larger than a filing drawer. Each bird occupies a space half the size of
a sheet of paper. To curtail fighting and cannibalism, suppliers amputate
the bottom third of each bird's sensitive beak.

Wendy's chicken meat is still produced in overcrowded grower houses where
birds are genetically manipulated to fatten them for slaughter. Most can't
support their unnatural weight and suffer broken limbs, dehydration,
respiratory ailments, heat prostration, bacterial infections and cancer.

On the kill line, birds dangle upside down from a revolving rail. Their
heads are submerged in electrified water baths that merely paralyze them.
Still cognizant, the birds pass through imprecise, mechanized throat
slashers. Some fall from the racks with non-mortal wounds. Still conscious,
they're pitched into feather-extracting tanks of scalding water. Workers
call the boiled alive birds "redskins."

As you are aware, Burger King recently vowed to purchase most of its pig
meat and eggs from suppliers that don't immobilize sows and hens in cruel
enclosures. Burger King also agreed to seek chicken meat from producers that utilize more humane slaughter methods.

Wendy's, on the other hand, has turned its back on millions of farmed
animals. Consumers who believe animals deserve better treatment know there
is an alternative to every cruel farming system. We ask Wendy's to lead the
way in humane reforms.

Your company can outshine Burger King with some research and action. Please
make compassion an integral part of Wendy's purchasing policy.

Yours sincerely,