PETA Earns Rebuke From Dalai Lama

Reuters ^ | June 25, 2004

[presidio9]

NEW DELHI - The office of the Dalai Lama said Friday the animal rights group PETA misrepresented the nature of a request by the spiritual leader that fast-food chain KFC not open an outlet in his homeland, Tibet.

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, based in Norfolk, Va., released a document Thursday from the Dalai Lama asking that the Louisville, Ky., restaurant chain "abandon its plan to open restaurants in Tibet."

But the Dalai Lama's heading on the document, "APPEAL," was changed to "Dear Mr. Novak," a reference to CEO David Novak of Yum! Restaurants, the parent company of KFC. PETA then issued a news release saying the Dalai Lama had "dispatched a letter" to the company.

The rest of the text of the Dalai Lama's appeal was unchanged, including his comment that seeing a chicken slaughtered outside a kitchen in India in 1965 made him decide to become a vegetarian.

The Dalai Lama's secretary, Tenzin Geyche Tethong, said in a letter faxed Friday to Ingrid Newkirk of PETA in Norfolk, that "We strongly object to your changing the nature of the appeal without seeking our approval."

Tethong said in the letter, made available to The Associated Press, that the Dalai Lama's office had "intentionally sent ... a general appeal," and had rejected a PETA request that a letter be addressed to Novak.

In Louisville, Yum! spokesman Jonathan Blum said Thursdat the company has no current plans to enter Tibet.

[ScottFromSpokane]

Mmmmm...llama.

[Spacemonkey1023]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that fraud to intercept and change someone's letter? But either way, I can't believe the arrogance of those idiots in PETA. How dare they put words into his mouth. Libs never cease to amaze me.

[11Bush]

Mmmmm...llama.

LOL in the morning!

[presidio9]

ping

[End Times Sentinel]

"We strongly object to your changing the nature of the appeal without seeking our approval."

It doesn't change my opinion that the Dali Lama is a retard for not realizing the deliciosity of The Colonel's Extra Crispy Recipe.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[SAJ]

...the animal rights group PETA misrepresented ...

Ya think?!?

Of course it's fraud, mate. Now try to find some dep't to prosecute them, and rotsa ruck in the attempt.

[tiamat]

Llama.... it's not just for breakfast anymore!

[Flash Bazbeaux]

Ah, the old "lama/llama controversy. Let's see if Ogden Nash can set things straight:

A one "l" lama is a priest.
A two "l" llama is a beast.
I will bet you a silk pajama, there's no such thing as a three "l" lllama.

[cspackler]

The rest of the text of the Dalai Lama's appeal was unchanged, including his comment that seeing a chicken slaughtered outside a kitchen in India in 1965 made him decide to become a vegetarian.

So, if he hadn't been in that spot at that time, all of these people would now be indulging in tasty animal portions?

I'm a PETA meber... People for Eating Tasty Animals

[Straight Vermonter]

I can't believe you beat me to it!

[tiamat]

Cute!

I will have to teach that to our 4-H kids!

Thanks!

;-)

[tob2]

Of course it's fraud! But that doesn't matter to these urban terrorists.

[tob2]

Remember seeing our chickens killed for dinner. That never turned me into a vegetarian.

[reagan_fanatic]

"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock.

So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one -- big hitter, the Lama -- long, into a ten-thousand foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier.

And do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga...gunga -- gunga galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consiousness."

So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."

[discostu]

PETA's never let the facts get in the way of making noise. They still show the same 40 year old video of a Mexican circus when they go protest at Ringling Bros (one of the hilights of going to the circus for me is making fun of the PETA pukes, they're all scrawny and malnurished, and so sad about life... funny people).

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Stolen from another post.

"vegetarian = Indian word for bad hunter!"

[The Scourge of Yazid]

I prefer the Alpaca version of Llama myself.

Much more utilitarian if you ask me.

Then again, I've always been known as a contrarian.