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Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It’s the the early 2000’s and the animal rights group PETA accuses KFC of cruelty in their poultry processing and creating “Frankenchickens.” As KFC revenues tumble, Chick-fil-A surges ahead, cultivating fanatic customers with opening day parties and lavish food giveaways. But when President Dan Cathy makes controversial remarks against same-sex marriage, Chick-fil-A becomes a battleground. Meanwhile, Popeyes new CEO reverses the chain’s long downward slide by returning the company to its Louisiana roots. He introduces snappy new advertising and Cajun recipes, including the company’s first fried chicken sandwich. Rising to the challenge, Chick-fil-A attacks their rival with some savvy twitter swordplay over whose sandwich reigns supreme. The ensuing social media frenzy inspires a nationwide rush on both chains, but KFC is left out in the cold. Then the great sandwich wars of 2019 help bring about a shocking upset in the world of southern fried fowl, just as all the players begin to plan for a more sustainable, less meat-heavy future.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Business Wars Add Free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:14.0	A note to listeners. This episode contains adult content and language.
0:18.0	KFC TORCUS CHICKENS
0:29.0	January 2003, outside of KFC Restaurant in Flint, Michigan.
0:34.0	A crowd of protesters is gathering in front of a downtown KFC.
0:39.0	Young women in yellow bikinis and snow boots, shiver as they wave signs reading. KFC Tortures Chicks.
0:46.0	Moments later, four naked women hop out of a minivan.
0:51.0	Two of them climb into a 10-foot-long glass aquarium tank and crouch down facing each other in blood-colored liquid.
0:59.0	The other two cram themselves into wire cages half filled with what looks like chicken poop.
1:05.0	The women are with a group of activists from the Animal Rights Group PETA.
1:09.0	The Animal Welfare Organization has launched a national campaign, accusing the poultry industry of having
1:15.0	using cruel practices in raising and butchering chickens.
1:20.0	A brawny guy in a parka comes out of the restaurant and angrily stomps over to one of the male protesters.
1:26.0	I don't give a rat's ass what you say. I love KFC's extra crispy chicken. I love my murder.
1:33.0	He pulls a chicken thigh out of his KFC bucket and bites off a huge hunk, just inches from the protesters face.
1:40.0	The activist lunges at the bucket but his fellow protesters pull him back.
1:45.0	The KFC recipe is misery and cruelty.
1:52.0	In the parking lot, protesters burn a straw-stuffed, colonel Sanders in effigy.
2:01.0	PETA stages more than 12,000 protests in front of KFC stores nationwide.
2:07.0	A random coalition of celebrities join the cause, including the Beastie Boys, the Dalai Lama, and Baywatch star Pamela Anderson.
2:15.0	PETA accuses KFC of using steroids to create breast-heavy, franken chicken.
2:21.0	And it distributes videos of the tips of chickens' beaks being cut off.
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