PETA PRESS RELEASE

The national billboard blitz is the latest salvo in PETA’s international campaign to pressure KFC to crack down on cruel treatment of chickens by KFC suppliers, including a slaughterhouse in Moorefield, W.Va., where workers were caught kicking, throwing, and stomping live birds in a widely distributed video.

Anderson, who also recently wrote to NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., asking that he use his position as KFC pitchman to pressure the company into curbing the worst abuses of its chickens, joins PETA in calling on KFC to make basic improvements based on the best available scientific research and the recommendations of members of KFC’s own animal welfare advisory panel. Other undercover investigations like the one in Moorefield have turned up exactly the same abuses that KFC denies having to address—including crippled chickens’ being kept in crowded, filthy conditions and sadistically tortured. The widely read British newspaper The Sunday Mirror led a report on an investigation into a U.K. KFC supplier with the headline "Distressed and Dying in a Cramped Shed … Nobody Does Chicken Like KFC."

Seinfeld star and ex-KFC pitchman Jason Alexander had his contract with KFC canceled after PETA enlisted him to speak to company execs about the suffering of chickens. PETA has had additional high-profile support from hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, comedian Richard Pryor, rock icons Sir Paul McCartney and Chrissie Hynde, and civil-rights leader Dick Gregory.

"KFC stands for cruelty," says Anderson, who is a vegan and promotes PETA’s boycott of KFC on her wildly popular Web site. "If KFC executives treated cats or dogs the way they treat chickens, they could go to prison on felony cruelty-to-animals charges."

For more information, please visit PETA’s Web site KentuckyFriedCruelty.com. A copy of the billboard follows.

1 posted on 10/05/2004 10:15:01 AM PDT by Armed Civilian

To: Armed Civilian

guess where I'm going fer dinner tonight?

2 posted on 10/05/2004 10:17:06 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))

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Thanks for the post. This settles my in-decesion.
It's KFC for lunch.

3 posted on 10/05/2004 10:17:43 AM PDT by phil1750 (Love like you've never been hurt;Dance like nobody's watching;PRAY like it's your last prayer)

To: Armed Civilian

This reminds me, I need to go and pick up a 12 pack of KFC for dinner tonight. Thanks PETA, I almost forgot.

4 posted on 10/05/2004 10:18:00 AM PDT by mnehring (cBS- Fourth Column, Fifth Estate, Disinformers)

To: Armed Civilian

PETA would be more successful if they would just admit people are going to eat chickens anyway, and supplement their boycotts with an alternative, like "Go eat chicken at Popeye's instead".

But since when you get down to the nub of it, they consider ALL eating of animal flesh a form of cruelty, they'll never do this. Which is why these issues will never resonate with a majority of the population.

5 posted on 10/05/2004 10:18:09 AM PDT by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong...)

Crap - I just got McDonalds... If only I'd known

6 posted on 10/05/2004 10:18:14 AM PDT by msp2004

To: Armed Civilian

Time to go out and get a big bucket of chicken.

There are horrors being inflicted on humans around the world every day and these freaks care about CHICKENS?

7 posted on 10/05/2004 10:19:05 AM PDT by MediaMole

To: Armed Civilian

I tell ya, here in Cedar Park, Texas, you can probably count the hepititus infected vegans on one finger.

We have 2 or 3 KFCs and probably more on the way.

8 posted on 10/05/2004 10:19:11 AM PDT by lormand (Dead People Vote DemocRAT)

To: Armed Civilian

Who cares? I like chicken.

9 posted on 10/05/2004 10:19:19 AM PDT by pgkdan (Monthly donor and Swift Vet donor and proud to say so!)

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Mmm...Fried Chicken.

Dinner decision solved! Thanks PETA!

10 posted on 10/05/2004 10:19:53 AM PDT by Carling (What happened to Sandy Burglar's Docs?)

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11 posted on 10/05/2004 10:21:01 AM PDT by Spok

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12 posted on 10/05/2004 10:21:21 AM PDT by frithguild (The Constitution is a living document with a malignant tumor under the penumbra)

To: Armed Civilian

I would think PETA ( People eating tasty animals) could get a spokesman a bit more current than Anderson.

13 posted on 10/05/2004 10:21:44 AM PDT by JIM O

To: Armed Civilian

I feel like chicken tonight.

14 posted on 10/05/2004 10:23:26 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The economy won't matter if you're dead.)

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15 posted on 10/05/2004 10:23:53 AM PDT by Dallas59 (I'm a "Scumbag" who has been "Intimidating" the Press since 2003!)

To: Armed Civilian

Do they serve anything lo-carb?

16 posted on 10/05/2004 10:24:50 AM PDT by nina0113

To: Armed Civilian

Yum, that made me hungry for some Kentucky Fried Chicken. Thanks Pamela, for planning my dinner for tonight. 8-)

17 posted on 10/05/2004 10:26:32 AM PDT by NRA2BFree

To: Armed Civilian

I just had a lunch of KFC chicken strips and tater wedges.

I think I cracked a tooth on a piece of smashed beak.

Beak - that's a funny word.....

18 posted on 10/05/2004 10:27:19 AM PDT by Don Simmons (Annoy a liberal: Work hard; Prosper; Be Happy.)

To: Armed Civilian

Any Freepers in the area should take pics in front of the billboard with their KFC buckets.

19 posted on 10/05/2004 10:27:36 AM PDT by Armed Civilian ("Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.")

To: Armed Civilian

Thats it, a bucket of original recipe for me tonight. With biscuts.

20 posted on 10/05/2004 10:27:50 AM PDT by TXBSAFH (Member of 3rd Pajamahadeen Division, 2nd Boxer Shorts Brigade, 4th Bunny Slipper Battalion)

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