[Darnright]

PETA picked a working class, mostly black neighborhood in which to hold this protest. Fortunately, these folks are far smarter than the average liberal animal rights bleeding heart, and therefore went about their business, ignoring the antics of the clothing-and brain-challenged PETA dweebs.

[Jonah Hex]

...including two women dressed in showgirl-styled chicken outfits...

"Hmmm, should I order the breast or the drumstick?"

[Uncle Miltie]

If a PETA member contracts fleas, do they cultivate them?

[BlueLancer]

C'mon, now ... you've been here long enough to know the rules ...

Threads such as this REQUIRE pictures.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I think that PETA needs to focus on the real tragedy in food, GRITS. Everyday grits are taken from their birth mothers and raised in small windowless cubicles. The cubicles are artifically lighted so the grits don't know if it is day or night. When grown the grits are taken to processing plants where the workers verbally abuse them before ending their short tragic lives. Then the grits are put into cardboard boxes and shipped all over the south to be consumed at Wafflehouses. Something must be done.

[DoctorMichael]

These clowns are here in Charlottesville, on 'the strip' (Rte. 29), too. They stand across the street from the local KFC..........but then again, this IS Charlottesville, whose Town Council joined Berkeley and Paris by voting against the war in Iraq; also the homebase of Dave Mathews etc.

[Orangedog]

A few years ago PETA was making the rounds of the public schools in my state. Their campaign consisted of two people...a PETA mouthpiece spewing the line of the week "Please don't eat our animal-friends." She would be outside of elementary schools with some fool dressed up in a carrot costume, trying to get the kiddies to give up meat.

It didn't last long. The suburban schools they were targeting denied them access to the property so they were relagated to the street in front of the schools. Too bad they gave up so easy, because I had a plan in place for when they came to my kids school. Here was what two friends of mine and I were going to do: One of us had an old cow costume leftover from a halloween party (you know, the kind that needs two people, one in the front and another in back). My buddies were going to wear the cow costume and would charge the carrot and knock him down while I was pelting the PETA mouthpiece with 40 hamburgers from Rally's (back when they were only 99 cents each) that we would have picked up on the way to the school. We had the costume and were keeping tabs on where the "Animal friends" tour was going, but they called it off the day before they were planning to come to my neighborhood.

[Between the Lines]

Bonnie Warschauer, a corporate spokeswoman for KFC, said they released new guidelines May 1 for animal treatment.

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).

[D. Brian Carter]

"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.

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?).

[onedoug]

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