AS someone who has seen firsthand the terrible suffering of factory-farmed chickens reared for their meat, I would like to thank the members of Redditch Animal Rights who demonstrated outside KFC for bringing to the public's attention the appalling cruelty inflicted on these birds.

People objecting to the protest should take themselves along to a broiler chicken unit, smell the stench and see for themselves the dead and dying birds - it is pitiful and never fails to bring tears to my eyes.

How human beings can inflict such cruelty on other living creatures beggars belief.

Ursula Bates

Warren Drive

Dorridge

Solihull