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Mum said it’s not good but KFC is still my No. 1 fast food…
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11 March 2016
It’s a 4-legged chicken but has nothing to do with KFC in China!
Shanghaiist
Experts claim this four-legged chicken is perfectly edible http://shst.me/dfj
Experts claim this four-legged chicken is perfectly edible
Just in time for dinner, a Shandong woman happened to come across this chicken with four legs.
Zhu Zhenwu, the daughter of a local farmer, spotted this freak of nature out strutting around near her father’s farm earlier this week. Upon closer inspection, she found that the bird had grown an extra pair of legs, hanging beneath its tail.
Zhu maintains that the chicken did not come from their family farm, but had wandered over from somewhere else. However, within the day, the four-legged freak had drawn curious crowds of over fifty people to their home, Sina reports.
Unfortunately, the stress of being a local celebrity may be too much for the month-old chicken and Zhu is worried that it won’t live much longer.
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Remember the stories of KFC’s mutant chickens?
This was supposed to be one of them.
Well, KFC has won its court case againat the China companies who spread the rumours.
KFC wins China payout over mutant chicken rumours
A Shanghai court has fined three local tech firms for helping spread rumours about Yum Brands Inc’s KFC fast food chain that included doctored photos of deformed chickens and allegations the birds had six wings and eight legs.
In a statement on its official microblog, the Xuhui District People’s Court said Yingchenanzhi Success and Culture Communication, Taiyuan Zero Point Technology and Shanxi Weilukuang Technology had “damaged KFC’s reputation” and “caused it economic losses” by permitting the allegations to be posted on their social messaging accounts.
The companies were ordered to make an official apology and fined a combined 600,000 yuan (RM386,385), an amount that fell far short of the 1.5 million yuan Yum had asked each company to pay in damages.
“We brought suit against these individuals for making false statements about the quality of our food and we are pleased with the outcome,” China-based Yum spokesperson Cindy Wei said.
Yum is battling to turn around its fortunes in China, its largest market, where its sales have taken a serious hit after a series of food safety scares since the end of 2012. The firm is planning to spin off its China unit by the end of this year.
KFC China brought the suit against the firms in June last year for using ten accounts on Tencent Holdings Ltd’s popular messaging platform WeChat to spread the defamatory posts.
– See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/business/article/kfc-wins-china-payout-over-mutant-chicken-rumours#sthash.vjzgh4ce.dpuf
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June 2015
KFC: Our chickens don’t have eight legs.
Their chickens don’t look like spiders.
KFC said it had filed lawsuits against three local companies that operated WeChat content accounts it accused of spreading defamatory rumors about the brand, sometimes accompanied by photoshopped images of mutated chickens.
The companies are Ying Chen An Zhi Chenggong Culture Communications Ltd. in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, and Wei Lu Kuang Technology and Ling Dian Technology in inland Shanxi province.
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KFC is super sensitive about those mutant chicken rumors: http://nym.ag/1M3gNbq
KFC Is Super Sensitive About Those Mutant Chicken Rumors
Seeking to protect its turf in a country that accounts for approximately half its revenue, KFC is suing three Chinese companies that have spread rumors that the fast-food giant breeds mutant chickens. (Really!)
Social media has fueled whispers about franken-chickens that are genetically modified to have six legs and eight wings — for maximum, diabolical meatiness. As KFC’s representatives tell it, China’s largest restaurant chain has been bullied by three media companies intent on undermining the company’s immense popularity.
Now, with the support of a government intent on cleaning social media up, KFC can finally fight back, or something!
http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/06/kfc-mutant-chickens.html?mid=twitter_nymag
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Fried-chicken giant sues to stop persistent claims that it sells meat from mutant birds: http://bit.ly/1Joh9KC
The Wall Street Journal
KFC Sues Chinese Companies Over Alleged Eight-Legged Chicken Rumors
Restaurant says three companies ‘misleading the consumer’ on Internet
BEIJING— Yum Brands Inc. ’s KFC is suing three companies in China for allegedly spreading rumors about the quality of its food, including that its chickens have eight legs, a move that comes as the fried-chicken company fights to regain lost ground in one of its most critical markets.
KFC said on its Chinese-language website that three Chinese media companies tarnished its image by spreading false information about its products on social media. KFC alleged in its statement that the companies spread rumors, “misleading the consumer,” on microblogs and through photos and articles that claimed its chicken had six wings and eight legs. The fast-food chain said it is requesting compensation of up to 1.5 million yuan (about $245,000) from each company, an apology and an end to the alleged practices.
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英 國廣播公司(BBC)中文網報導，肯德基（KFC）公司將起訴中國3家公司，即山西微路況科技有限公司、太原零點科技有限公司和贏陳安之成功文化傳播有限 公司，因為這些公司散播“肯德基使用有6個翅膀和8條腿的基因改造雞，，而肯德基也準備向有關公司索償人民幣150萬元，並要求這些公司發表道歉聲明。肯 德基中國區總裁屈翠容說：“這不但嚴重誤導消費者，也對我們的品牌造成了傷害。”有關人士通過網絡散播的基因改造雞的照片，也被人一再竄改，且越改越誇 張。肯德基在中國的擴展非常快，截至2014年底，中國共有4828家肯德基分店。
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