IT'S NOT THE MEAT!
IT'S THE SPICES!
Posted on 09/16/2008 10:42:10 AM PDT by markomalley
The Syracuse Animal Rights Organization held a public protest against Syracuse University's support of KFC Corp. Monday afternoon. The protest focused on improving KFC's treatment of chickens and removing the restaurant chain's presence on campus.
Student representatives and community volunteers of the group, including one individual dressed as a bright yellow bird, demonstrated outside Kimmel Hall, home to a campus KFC. Members of SARO colored the sidewalk with chalk messages against KFC and collected student signatures and e-mail addresses to form a petition against the restaurant.
"We are asking (KFC) to adopt some minimum animal welfare guidelines that they so far have refused to listen to," said Amber Coon, campaign coordinator of SARO. "So we're hoping that (by) getting on campus and getting around … that KFC will have to choose between listening to their customers and listening to the fact that animals feel pain and need to be treated well, or they're not going to do business anymore."
Monday was the first day this year that the group has publicly protested KFC, said Ryan Huling, a community volunteer who helped organize the demonstration.
"We understood that it was an obligation of ours, working with this student group, to hopefully get rid of this company or at the very least make some improvements," Huling said.
SARO has been pressuring the school to get rid of the popular campus restaurant on campus, Huling added.
"Obviously when students hear about what happens to chickens killed for KFC ... it's not the kind of company they want to support," he said.
While some students signed SARO's petition, others passed by the protest.
"I agree with what they're doing, but I'm really not a big fan of PETA," said Mark Carey, a junior illustration and computer science major.
Carey took one of the fliers produced by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that SARO was passing out, but he did not put his name on the petition.
PETA was founded in 1980 and is the only international organization that has publicly denounced KFC for its treatment of animals. It has two million members worldwide, and one of its main projects over the last several years has been to stop KFC.
While PETA has brought its evidence of KFC's cruelty to the government, little action has been taken to prosecute the franchise, Huling said. One reason, Huling said, is because the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act excludes chickens in indicating what is and is not humane in terms of animal treatment.
"It's tough because, what (the protesters are) doing, I guess it's right," Carey said. "But I'm choosing between KFC and PETA. It's a tough decision. Maybe I should have signed. But I really don't like PETA, so I'm not going to."
Ethan Young, a junior in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, signed SARO's list.
"I think it's a good cause," he said. "I'm usually not on the side of PETA, but this sounds like a pretty reasonable cause. They bring up a good point: We wouldn't do this to dogs and cats ... I agree with it on that end."
SARO, along with members of PETA, will be on campus today for another protest outside Kimmel.
“Obviously when students hear about what happens to BABIES killed BY ABORTION... it’s not the kind of ISSUE they want to support,” he said.
They're food. Deal with it.
Leftist logic: Infanticide is a constitutionally protected right, but killing chickens should be illegal.
I can’t seem to face up to the facts
I’m tense and nervous and I can’t relax
This Colonel Sanders job is getting me down
A crazy chicken chasing me all over town
Psycho Chicken....What the Cluck!
Buck buck buck buck buck buck buck buck buck
Psycho Chicken
COLONEL SANDERS WANTS TO COOK HIS GOOSE!
BUT PSYCHO CHICKEN’S STILL ON THE LOOSE
They caught him down in Ohio
They cut off his head and they put him in an oven
They put him in a box right next to a roll
Put Cole slaw near his head and someone took him home
Ate for lunch and he tasted real fine
But the guy who ate him
JUST LOST HIS MIND!
Psycho Chicken....What the cluck!
reckon it’s time to visit the local franchise and pick up another bucket of finger licken’ good!
When did food chains come on to the SU campus? They weren’t there in the 80s.
So when is SU going to bring back football?
ran into some of these protestors a few years ago outside of a kfc....my wife, mother in law and my youngest son were in the car...i pulled to the curb right by them ( my wife just shook her head, my son started to laugh, and mom in law was dumbfounded ) and i kindly asked them what they were protesting. they said that kfc is inhumane. i asked them how. they said the way they kill the chickens is cruel. i then said to them, “ but they taste best that way “ ...the two guys just stood there and their jaws hit the sidewalk. i drove off laughing...
MONDAY: KFC; Protest inhumane killing of chickens for food
TUESDAY: City Hall; Protest against skyrocketing school and medical costs
WEDNESDAY: State Government Office Building; Protest against proposal to eliminate free education and medical care for illegals
THURSDAY: Protest against Drill Here-Drill Now proposals
FRIDAY: Republican Headquarters; Protest against outrageous inflation of energy costs
SATURDAY: Planned Parenthood; demonstration to support third term abortion of viable fetus tissue
SUNDAY: Catholic Church; protest Pope's anti-abortion statements
News from the ‘Cuse.
“So when is SU going to bring back football?”
When they bring back the Saltine Warrior and get rid of that ridiculous orange thing that runs around.
LOL!
My customers still remind me of the day I made the paper FReeping the PETA nuts. I’ll drop everything and do it again if they ever show up around here. Next time I’ll take my hunting pictures to show them and offer them some goose jerky.....
Classic ‘Toon there. hahahaa!
I remember seeing it when it first came out YEARS ago !!!
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