Um, doesn't this kind of go without saying?? http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030106/ap_on_re_us/peta_kfc_4 Alex
I'm surprised they weren't already. Oh well. I only boycott KFC because I don't care that much for fried chicken.
I worked there for two years about a decade ago. I got pretty tired of that chicken. Havn't eaten there in many years.
I ate at a KFC in New Zealand once and the menu was all different: chicken sandwich = fillet burger ketchup = tomato sauce french fries = chips Sprite = lemonade
No, actually it doesn't. If you bothered to learn anything about PETA (no, I am NOT a member, why do you ask?), you'd understand the difference. They're not asking KFC to go out of business, they're just asking them to avoid unnecessary cruelty to the animals. Now, whether PETA has a legitimate gripe with KFC, or is indulging in the same kind of knee-jerk reaction as Axis Alex is a different question altogether.
Re: Re: Re: PETA boycotts KFC That's true. However, they still aren't asking KFC to voluntarily go out of business. They're asking KFC to treat the animals they use with the minimum necessary violence. Surely you can understand the difference? One approach gets you branded as a nutjob, the other has a chance of succeeding in your secondary goal of reducing animal suffering. That's not to say that PETA members aren't nutjobs. Some are. Many are. Hell, most are. But I've met one or two that can actually look a sanity test in the eye before failing it.
Re: Re: PETA boycotts KFC If you bothered to learn anything about PETA, you'd understand it's a vegetarian group. Therefore, unless KFC changes its name to KFT (Kentucky Fried Tofu), they'd pretty much be inherently boycotting it. Alex
PETA sucks cow turds. It's amazing how fat some of these activists are even though they eat peat moss. I hope they all get stampeded by a wild herd of buffalo one day.
Re: Re: Re: PETA boycotts KFC The difference that Daniel is pointing out is that while PETA members have been boycotting KFC (and McDonalds and Wendy's and whatever) for a while, they are now asking the rest of us to boycott KFC (as opposed to McDonalds or Wendys or whatever) due to their extra-painful killing of animals. Or something. I dunno, maybe they go to McDonalds and order salads since McDonalds now only lightly kills their animals, and they will happily go to KFC and order buttermilk biscuits after their call for a boycott successfully changes KFC's corporate behavior. I'm with Tim, I've been boycotting KFC for a few years now because it gave me the runs every time I ate it.
Re: Re: Re: Re: PETA boycotts KFC Doesn't cruelty make the chicken more tender and juicy? This is why I like to taunt the lobsters before I drop them in the boiling cauldron. It enhances the flavor.
These are the same people that bitched because Madden ate a Turducken during "Monday Night Football". Alex
Re: Re: Re: PETA boycotts KFC Yes, but there are different levels of immorality. There are a lot of people that will eat animals, but at least would prefer to do so in the least cruel manner. While PETA would like people to be vegetarians, they also would like to reduce unnecessary cruelty. People get all worked up about PETA because some of their members come off as extremists, but PETA is doing a lot of good work.
Re: Re: Re: Re: PETA boycotts KFC ROFL... different levels of immorality,, "youre a grade c sinner so you'll have to spend eternity listening to barry manilow... but youdamn youre a first class grade a sinner so you'll have to watch videos of Snoop Dog and Barbara Streisand doing the nasty" as far as KFC, their "Chicken" is f-ing nasty.its the lowest grade diseased ridden birds money can buy.They are actually doing the "birds" a favor by putting them out of their misery.If these knuckledraggers really wanted to protest they should be protesting KFC passing of their "meals" edible.
Not only does PETA suck cow turds, they dump them all over the place too. A few years ago, there was a fur convention a local hotel. Well the good folks at PETA decided it would be a good idea to get a dump truck full of manure and dump it in front of the hotel entrance. What a buch of a-holes! They had PETA signs on the truck and everything. No one got arrested, PETA didn't get fined because of some BS technicality, and some poor city workers had to clean the crap up. Causing a public health hazard isn't exactly my idea of responsible activism. Regardless of the "morality of fur" you shouldn't put people's health at risk, especially when it will affect innocent bystanders. A dump truck can hold a lot of manure.
Re: Re: Re: Re: PETA boycotts KFC Cite some examples of their "good work." They seem to be a bunch of publicity-seeking agitators who think they are morally superior to the avg. person because of their fancy non-animal diets. Someone once posted that to raise crops on farms, thousands and thousands of animals like moles, mice & groundhogs get chopped up by combines or poisoned by pesticides. Sounds a lot like animal cruelty to me.
Re: Re: Re: Re: PETA boycotts KFC PETA comes out strong against hunting, which is the most cruelty-free and ecologically sound method of harvesting meat. So they're either completely ignorant of their very field of protest or they're a bunch of hypocrites.
these are the same a-holes who put a picture of rudy giuliani on a billboard with the words "got cancer?" b/c they believe milk is bad for your prostate.
In addition to the problems with PETA cited above, they propogate a relativistic view of morality predicated on the assumption that animals are equal to humans. They are doing great harm to western monotheists everywhere who want the freedom to kill animals as an acceptabe release for violence inherent in their religions.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: PETA boycotts KFC That's because you're not equipped for it. I've spent all my life raising cattle. I've seen the 2X6 stalls, the hormones, the antibiotics, the overgrazed pastures, the slaughterhouses: the whole cruel mess that goes behind the tidy T-Bone cut in the grocery store. The whole process is a perversion of nature. As opposed to hunting. Nothing is more natural than a member of a species hunting their own food (rather than selling it or buying it). But you and the PETitAs glom on to hunting because of an ill-informed, hysterical aversion to a "lifestyle." You see hunting as "cruel" and "savage" because you rely on your emotional responses as opposed to intellectual inquiry. Really, you're like a bunch of teenaged girls grossed out by a horror flick.