PETA Opposes Tribute to Fried Chicken
AP
Posted: 2008-02-09 18:21:51
Filed Under: Business News, Nation News, Weird News
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Feb. 9) – Animals rights advocates are squawking at a measure that would make fried chicken Kentucky’s official picnic food.
State Rep. Charles Siler is sponsoring legislation to assign the designation to KFC’s “finger lickin’ good” chicken, first served by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1940.
The late colonel’s fried chicken deserves the title because of the worldwide attention and economic benefit it has brought to the state, Siler said.
KFC, a subsidiary of Louisville-based Yum Brands Inc., has 11,000 restaurants in more than 80 countries.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals bristles at the idea. The animal rights group claims that the chickens KFC serves are abused, even tortured.
“If the state legislature moves forward with this one, then they should change Kentucky’s state bird from the cardinal to the debeaked, crippled, scalded, diseased, dead chicken,” said Bruce Friedrich, PETA vice president.
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Do you agree with PETA? Are they doing the right thing?
Chickens clearly aren’t the brightest beings on the planet, but they’re capable of suffering, and certainly do suffer unnecessarily at our hands.
Being officially picnic food may not make much difference to the chickens, but the protesters can hope to inform and make people think.
I think chicken are the tastiest people I have ever eaten. Possibly the opressed masses of cows and pigs I eat come in second.
I am happy that PeTA has decided to bring this issue up.
It sells more chicken!
Yummy chicken! *burp*
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PETA = People for Eating Tasty Animals
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PETA = People for Eating Tasty Animals”
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PETA = People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals …
Yes, I’m certainly against Yum Brands slaughter, and even more so against elevating it to a Kentucky icon.
Even if you are not alongside PETA, it’s a waste of good chicken.
… but what is this item doing in this chess-centric blog, a question you could ask about many of the items here.
Do you agree with PETA? Are they doing the right thing?
PETA is the product of the 20th century, twisted, decadent-turning ideas of the modern societies. Such as trying to “stop” what evolution did for millions of years. If I would have designed the living world, I sure would have tried it in such a way that living things don’t have to kill and eat each other, but I didn’t design it, and nor did PETA. Therefore, that’s how life IS. Whether we like it or not. Trying mankind stop eating meat (because that’s bottom line) is plain silly. If humans wouldn’t meant to eat meat, they wouldn’t. This was not some “bad decision” somewhere along the line, it was a biological necessity. Some people can get away being a vegetarian, mostly because of less than average physical activity, less energy need.
But all of that is almost irrelevant, because no matter what humans may or may not do, in the animal kingdom, every single day, billions, what billions, trillions of animals mercilessly kill other trillions of animals for food.
That’s the way it is, whether bleeding hearts like it or not.
Have to say that last week I ate an “organic” chicken (whatever that is) and it was absolutely delicious, falvourful, juicy etc although a bit small and expensive.
Therefore I am all in favour of the eithical treatment of animals -they taste much better that way.
Don’t let them fool you folks these PETA people are against eating of meat full stop not just against the “unethical treatment of animals”. If KFC agreed to give each chicken its own space, good food etc do you think PETA would then endorse KFC – no way they want to stop all us meat lovers from loving meat (eh, don’t know if that came out quite the way I intended)
A PETA activist once tried to change me, I had his liver with some fava beans and a fine Chianti…
We are not murdering chickens. We are avenging the worms, caterpillars, bugs, ect. that the chickens murdered.