Dont think Ill be eating KFC for a while:

[Mobius]

:puke:
PETA to serve bloody chicken

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040324/ap_on_re_us/peta_kfc_1

NORFOLK, Va. - The animal-rights activists who once suggested Ronald McDonald was a bloody butcher are going after Colonel Sanders, contending cruelty is the "secret recipe" for KFC's fried chicken.
Starting next month, Norfolk-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans to hand out "Buckets of Blood" to children outside KFC restaurants and at schools near the restaurants. The buckets are part of PETA's campaign against what it says are farming and slaughter abuses by KFC's suppliers.
The 5-inch-tall, red-and-white striped containers mimic KFC's buckets. But instead of fried chicken, each is filled with items including a bag of fake blood and bones, a bloodied plastic chicken and a cardboard caricature of a blood-spattered Colonel Sanders holding a butcher knife toward a terrified-looking chicken.
Labels on the bucket proclaim, "Shhh! The 'secret recipe' in this bucket of body parts is ... cruelty" and "The Colonel's secret recipe: live scalding, painful debeaking, crippled chickens."
KFC spokeswoman Bonnie Warschauer initially said, "We don't comment on the corporate terrorist activities of PETA. They are corporate terrorists and just like the United States government, we will not negotiate with corporate terrorists."
Warschauer added that "PETA has totally crossed the line of free speech and acceptable behavior" and "all they want is a vegetarian world."

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[GOPisEvil]

1. Eh...I never eat KFC anyway.

But I've never been a fan of PETA's tactics.

[Mobius]

10. PETA wanted the Green Bay PACKERS

to change their name to the Green Bay PICKERS, to be more PC. Yeah...:eyes:

[GOPisEvil]

13. Exactly!

I think their hearts are in the right place, but like I said, I'm not fond of their tactics.

[Beaker]

33. or the town could have sold the team to fannie may-

(when there was a fannie may)
and they could have been the Green Bay FudgePackers...and besides- the name would better fit their style of play.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. PETA is a frightning group!

:puke:

[Mobius]

11. I want some of those buckets,

they sound kinda cool. Sell em in EBAY or something :evilgrin:

[JVS]

3. yum chicken

[mmm]

4. PETA is great. Somebody has to do it.

[Piperay]

5. My feelings are the same for

both KFC and PETA...:puke: :puke: :puke:

[DBoon]

6. Wish someone cared as much

about women beaten to death by their husbands as PETA does about chicken.

[absyntheNsugar]

9. Or Innocent Iraqis bombed by us...

There's a million things going wrong right now and PETA has to protect a bunch of lizards with feathers.... :eyes:

[Mobius]

12. well scalding them alive?

that isnt necessary. Just kill em quick and be thankful of their sacrifice, so that you might be fed. Dont torture the poor things.

[DBoon]

35. Yeah, instead they should be throwing blood at

the attendees of Bush fundraisers - go after some real murderers.

[Piperay]

25. Some people do but

to be fair it is good that people care about different things so that the concern is more spread around.

[Paragon]

7. How about ethical treatment of humans?

Try staging a protest that doesn't involve fake blood, for starters.

[Piperay]

27. I have often seen that the same

people who care about animals are same the ones that ARE out there staging things for humans too. You can't assume that it is only one single cause that someone is committed to. I don't even support PETA but I have had questions like that about why I am with one cause instead of another. In this day and age I am just glad that someone is willing to come out for something whether it is my number one or not. I don't like PETA's tactics but if they think they can improve things for one life form that's their choice.

[Mass_Liberal]

8. Fried Chicken is sooo good

I could not care less how they make the chicken. And I doubt they are concious w/ their throats are slit open.

[RebelOne]

14. How could you even think of eating chicken

after reading these facts? And they are facts. Not just PETA propaganda. I don't think you have too much compassion.

"A label on the bucket says "Just for you, KFC's suppliers cram thousands of chickens into filthy sheds, sear baby chicks' beaks off with a hot wire, slam the birds into crates (breaking their wings and legs), slice their throats open and scald them to death while they're still conscious. Enjoy."

[Mass_Liberal]

17. Chickens serve no other purpose

than to fill my belly. Or lay eggs that will fill my belly. They are too stupid to have compassion for.

[Djinn]

18. too stupid to have compassion for?

there are a lot of stupid people around too!

I have no problem with people eating meat (I do myself) but the people who find PETA's tactics wrong weird me out a little bit - commercial farming is cruelty personified - if you can't take the heat stop eating tortured animals, if you're FINE with it then you should have no problems with PETA letting people know about it.

You can eat a chicken without having had it suffer throughout it's entire life, same goes for every other meat product - also organic meat tastes better and is less likely to produce antibiotic resistance diseases and yummy things like vCJD and is less likely to involve the abuse of low paid workers in it's production

[Mass_Liberal]

21. by stupid I mean not even having an intellect

there are stupid humans. But they can at least think. This is inelequent, but, to put it simply, chickens are not humans. Humans are better than chickens. So we eat them, not the other way around.

[Skip Intro]

22. shaking my head

"too stupid to have compassion for"

fear, pain and murder only count with humans, I guess, and maybe dogs and cats?

you leave me speechless

[Mass_Liberal]

24. ya

I know it sounds dumb. But yes, compassion is for humans, and dogs and cats. And things that aren't so damn annoying as chickens. Ya know what I mean. Food animals.

[Skip Intro]

26. Not dumb

But if you know a living creature can experience intense fear and pain and that that creature is being horribly tortured in almost unbelievable ways so that you can eventually consume it, don't you at least feel some compassion for it? My God, imagine how it must feel for it to have its beak seared off. I can barely type that without cringing and without a deep sense of dispair for the animal in my heart.

If you walked past a pigeon or some bird on the sidewalk stuggling with a broken wing, would you not feel some inkling of an urge to help the poor animal?

I don't see why, I just don't understand your pov that because we deem ourselves to have more of a right to life than the "lesser" animals, we also have the right to torture them into unimaginable pain and agony without a second thought.

Seems cold and heartless in the extreme, to be blunt. I'm having a hard time believing you actually feel that way.

[Mass_Liberal]

34. Pain is inherent in nature

a wolf eats a cow, chomping on its belly while the cow is still alive. It doesn't feel compassion. Food is food. I just don't really think about how every animal I eat was killed, to be honest.

[Mobius]

15. thats the point, they ARE

ripping out their beaks and then while still alive, scald them so they can rip out the feathers while they are still alive. They dont go into shock for quite a while. Its actually pretty gross. I will still eat fried chicken, but not KFC.
Besides my uncle got a fried rat tail once.

[RebelOne]

16. Doesn't make any difference whether it's KFC

Tyson or any other chicken processor. They all do the same thing.

[Mobius]

20. Free Range Chicken

tastes better too

[Moderator]

19. Mobius

In the future, remember to limit size of your excerpt. From the rules -

"Don't post entire copyrighted articles. If you wish to reference an article, provide a brief excerpt and include a link to the original source. Generally, excerpts should not exceed three or four paragraphs."

Thanks,

DU Moderator

[Mobius]

30. will do, Im sorry

:)

[gyopsy]

23. Never been a fan of KFC

I find their chicken gross anyway. It's greasy.

[ironflange]

40. Too salty too

[elperromagico]

28. I like their message,

but I can't stand their goddamned guerilla tactics. Handing out buckets of blood to children, for Christ's sake?

Nobody pays attention to assholes unless they fart or have a lot of money.

[Mobius]

31. Its fake blood

but yeah, scaring kids, is not necessary.

[Skip Intro]

29. So PETA is a terrorist organization, huh?

They've crossed the line of free speech, huh?

We have a corporation who is responsible for the horrendous torture of millions of living creatures who want to define the boundaries of "free speech" while calling the protesters "terrorists."

Why does that sound familiar?

Honestly, if PETA had simply picketed the KFC headquarters, would the ap, or yahoo have reported it? Would we be talking about it?

The question is, do the (desired) ends justify the unpleasant (too realistic) means?

I say hell yeah. This beyond inhumane treatment of livnig, feeling creatures should end, now.

[Beaker]

32. peta is a joke.

they might think that their hearts are in the right place- but they seem to choose the weirdest ways to fight the strangest battles.

[Berserker]

37. Hey Mobius on the name change

of the green bay packers to the green bay pickers as peta wants I will one up them How about the green bay peckers? Hey Im a VIKINGS fan what can I say:evilgrin:

[Paragon]

36. What about the carbon atoms?

Here's another question I have: How come when it's us, it's an abortion, but when it's a chicken, it's an omelette? Are we so much better than chickens, all of a sudden? When did this happen, us passing chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chickens *beat* See, no one can do it! Y'know why? 'Cause chickens are decent people. You don't see chickens hangin' around in drug gangs, do ya? No, you don't see chickens strappin' some guy in a chair and hookin' up his nuts to a car battery, do ya? When's the last chicken ya heard came home from work and beat the shit out of his hen? Doesn't happen, 'cause chickens are decent people.

But, let's get back to this abortion shit. Now, is a fetus a human being? This seems to be the central question. Well, if a fetus is a human being, how come the Census doesn't count them? If a fetus is a human being, how come when there's a miscarriage, they don't have a funeral? If a fetus is a human being, why do people say "We have two children and one on the way," instead of saying "We have three children"?

People say life begins at conception? I say life began about a billion years ago, and it's a continuous process. Just keeps rollin' along. Rollin..rollin.. rollin' along.

Listen, you can go back further than that. What about the carbon atoms? Huh? Human life could not exist without carbon. So maybe is it possible we shouldn't be burning all this coal?

Just lookin' for a little consistency here in these anti-abortion arguments.

http://www.geocities.com/janeway_37909/Writings/abortion2.htm

[The Rock]

38. Those people are nuts...

and they go way overboard on their protests. I don't really like them.

I'm gonna eat chicken right in front of a member if I were to see one sometime. :evilgrin: Those people need to realize that the chickens are raised for our consumption.

[ScreamingMeemie]

39. Yes, let's go out and frighten young children...that's a damn good

idea. :eyes:

[DiverDave]

41. They do that to my kids

and it's gonna be ON
They better stay clear of my kids with this crap.:mad: