OK, I'll post a non-related picture.
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Posted on 05/27/2003 10:30:30 AM PDT by Darnright
Colonel Sanders' secret recipe didn't bring protesters out Tuesday afternoon to a Roanoke restaurant. Instead, it was the poultry that led two Norfolk women to show some skin to passing motorists.
Seven PETA supporters, including two women dressed in showgirl-styled chicken outfits, stood in front of the KFC on Melrose Avenue and encouraged patrons to boycott the fast-food chain.
Four other protesters, led by WZZI disc jockey Lare Mitchum, protested across the street against PETA's presence.
Drivers honked their horns as they drove by. One man in a truck let out a rooster call. Others slowed down to gawk at the "Chickettes," a name coined by PETA.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an animal rights group, has a beef with KFC because the group believes chickens are mistreated before being slaughtered, processed and shipped off to restaurants, said Brandi Valladolid, a PETA spokeswoman and one of the Chickettes. They've issued demands that KFC better treat its future dishes.
"Of course chickens might not be as cute and cuddly as your cat or dog, but they suffer in the exact same way, and that's our point," she said.
Valladolid stood next to Anna Murray, 23, who was also dressed in an orange bikini covered with fake red and orange feathers. Valladolid and Murray wore hats fashioned like chicken heads and carried signs reading "KFC tortures chickens."
Valladolid said chickens that are ultimately used in KFC buckets and other meals are subject to cramped living conditions and painful slaughtering.
Nan Fariss, a 68-year-old Roanoke resident, agreed.
"The cruelty is horrible, and people who make a living off of animals owe them a good living," said Fariss, holding a protest sign.
Bonnie Warschauer, a corporate spokeswoman for KFC, said they released new guidelines May 1 for animal treatment.
"We have a general disagreement with PETA in our approach, but our animal welfare goal is the same, and KFC remains completely committed to that," she said.
PETA's nationwide protests against KFC began in January, Valladolid said.
Disc jockey Mitchum said he didn't want PETA to hurt local businesses.
"If they're concerned about the 700 million chickens they should be in front of the chicken plants," he said.
Valladolid said KFC can influence its suppliers.
The protests haven't had an impact on business in the restaurants nationwide, Warschauer said.
And the local protest didn't keep away Roanoke resident Cecil Johnson.
"It's silly," Johnson said while waiting in the parking lot for a KFC employee to bring his drive-through order. "You've got to eat meat. God gave chicken for man to eat."
"Hmmm, should I order the breast or the drumstick?"
Threads such as this REQUIRE pictures.
OK, I'll post a non-related picture.
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KFC has already given in yet PETA persists. These people cannot be satisfied.
From Planet Ark website:
May 5, 2003
CHICAGO - Fast-food chain KFC, a division of Yum Brands Inc. (YUM.N), said it will adopt guidelines for the humane treatment of poultry by the producers they buy from.
But its guidelines do not go far enough to assuage the animal rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
In January, PETA, which had won changes from other fast food chains, including the largest, McDonald's Corp. (MCD.N), started a campaign aimed at getting KFC to require that its suppliers abandon practices such as stunning and slitting throats of chickens instead of using gas to kill them.
Last week, KFC said it adopted eight guidelines for farmers that address breeding, hatching and raising of poultry. Included are guidelines for adequate feeding of chickens, providing adequate growth space for normal development and inspections of facilities.
"We've been leading the industry in adopting the guidelines," said KFC spokeswoman Bonnie Warschauer.
But PETA official Bruce Friedrich said the guidelines come up short and do not address the maiming of birds' beaks or the killing of chickens by stunning and slitting their throats, rather than killing them with gas.
KFC also said it has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Labor to review a proposal on the feasibility of using gas to kill chickens, as an alternative to current methods.
PETA will continue its protest against KFC and this month plans to unveil a billboard in six cities showing the chain's icon, Col. Sanders, clutching a terrified chicken in one hand and a bloody butcher knife in the other.
PETA would stop its protest against KFC if it "would pledge to stop the most egregious abuses of chickens," Friedrich said.
Warschauer said the company has seen no impact on sales due to PETA's protest. "We strongly believe that what we announced today is the right thing to do," she said
KFC buys its chickens from 18 different suppliers, and those suppliers will be required to adhere to the standards, Warschauer said earlier.
Members of KFC's Animal Welfare Advisory Council, which was instituted two years ago, have endorsed the new standards, which are due to be released on May 15 by the National Council of Chain Restaurants and the Food Marketing Institute, two industry trade groups. (Additional reporting by Lauren Weber in New York).
Suffer? I don't know if KFC is doing things differently then we did back on the farm, but I know the chickens my family raised were far from suffering... they got to eat as much as they wanted, ran around the yard all day and did what chickens do. One of those things is picking on the weakest chicken, pecking and beating on it till it's face is a bloody mess.
Yes, we did place these chickens in a crate if they needed to be transported or to be held in line just before butchering, but that's basically the equivalent of riding any metropolitan subway system in this country... hardly torture for the chickens, considering some of the stuff I've had to endure on the El.
And as far as the slaughter? Over in a split second. One swift drop of the axe and the chicken is dead. No torture, no pain, no problem.
PETA is a bunch of f'n idiots (just check out the slackers in the photo at the link posted at #14... I wonder how long before those guys get the munchies and go in for some Extra Crispy?).
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