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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Andrew Wasley

KFC faces backlash over ‘misleading’ portrayal of UK chicken farming

An image from VFC showing the chicken farm it says featured in KFC’s video Behind the Bucket. VFC said they found severe overcrowding at the farm.
An image from VFC showing the chicken farm it says featured in KFC’s video Behind the Bucket. VFC said they found severe overcrowding at the farm. Photograph: Courtesy of VFC

KFC has been accused of a “misleading” portrayal of chicken farming after activists revisited a farm recently highlighted in a film by a YouTube influencer.

The Behind the Bucket film published last December saw YouTuber Niko Omilana visit a farm operated by meat company Moy Park, one of Europe’s leading poultry producers, which sells chicken to KFC.

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