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ANIMAL-RIGHTS activists have a sense of zeal that makes them compare themselves to abolitionists, suffragists and civil-rights marchers. But even though millions of Americans have at least dabbled with vegetarianism, the activists are rarely taken seriously by food companies or federal regulators when they ask people nicely to stop eating meat or wearing leather or going to the circus. Advertisement And when some lash out, the whole movement is tainted by association. "Guerrilla activism" can be as relatively harmless as throwing red paint on women in fur coats, as risky as opening the cages in mink ranches or as violent...

"When you take a multimillion-dollar endorsement from a company, you must also take some responsibility for the company's practices." So wrote Pamela Anderson, rapping NASCAR's Dale Earnhardt Jr. for his sponsorship of KFC. The busty "Baywatch" and "Stripperella" star -- whose Web site declares her "the millennium's most recognizable icon" -- complains that the food chain's suppliers are scalding chickens alive. And she has put her celebrity to work for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which features her on billboards now going up as part of the anti-KFC campaign. We can understand why the artificially augmented star might...

PAM ANDERSON’S FEATHERS RUFFLED BY DALE EARNHARDT JR.’S KFC CHICKEN DEAL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For Immediate Release: June 7, 2004 Contact: Dan Shannon 757-622-7382 Los Angeles -- PETA spokesperson Pamela Anderson has sent a letter to NASCAR driver and KFC spokesperson Dale Earnhardt Jr., asking that he use his new relationship with the company, which is based on KFC’s sponsorship of his race car, to curb its suppliers’ worst abuses of chickens, including painful shackling and live scalding in defeathering tanks. Pam says, "Little chickens need a big man like Dale to stick up for them!" and writes in her letter to...