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Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road . . . In a Wheelchair?

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals seems to be running out of ideas. Consider this rather lame protest planned against KFC,

A giant wheelchair-bound “chicken” will repeatedly cross the road in front of a local KFC to lead a protest against the companyÂ’s abusive treatment of chickens. Other PETA members will distribute leaflets to passersby, and one activist will wear a body screen TV showing shocking video footage of factory-farming abuse . . .

. . . Chickens are excluded from the only federal law that protects farmed animals—the Humane Slaughter Act. KFC drugs and breeds chickens to grow so large that many become crippled from the weight of their massive upper bodies.

Get it? Chickens are crippled by their weight, so the chicken has to cross the road in a wheelchair. Yeah, Ingrid, whatever.

Bruce Friedrich provides the obligatory quote,

KFC stands for cruelty in our book. If KFC employees abused cats or dogs the way they abuse chickens, they could be thrown in prison for felony charges of cruelty to animals.

Yeah, and if the average undergraduate abused logic half as often as PETA, he or she could flunk out of college in just a couple semester.

BTW, since PETA is so insistent these days that it has nothing to do with violence or terrorism, it is worth pointing out that the press release notes that PETA has received support from a number of celebrities including Chrissie Hynde. You remember Chrissie — she’s the one who a few years ago provided a justification for murdering those involved in animal industries,

The last resort is for someone to go in and actually take these guys out. Maybe it will have to be an out-and-out assassination. When no one will listen anymore, then individuals have to take the law into their own hands and it can get very ugly.

Can’t imagine where people get the idea that PETA advocates for and approves of violence.

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Giant ‘chicken’ in crosses the road to protest KFC in Reading. Press Release, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, January 3, 2006.

Australian Model Sarah Jane Does PETA Anti-KFC Ad

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Australian model Sarah Jane is appearing in an ad on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals urging consumers to boycott KFC.

The ad is targeted at Hong Kong, where PETA plans to distribute 20,000 flyers featuring the ad.

Jane told newspapers,

I hope that, no matter how you feel about eating meat, you will agree with me that animals raised for food should not be grossly mistreated. Chickens raised for meat are commonly crammed by the tens of thousands into filthy warehouses with no access to fresh air or sunlight. . . .I will feel satisfied if this campaign can shock, confront and awaken people globally and make known the suffering of chickens at the hands of KFC. I urge everyone not to set foot in another KFC restaurants until the company ends its chickens.

Interesting how PETA is so effective at attracting people whose main talent seems to be their ability to disrobe.

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Animal welfare group enlists star for anti-KFC campaign. Agence-France Presse, August 3, 2005.

Sarah Jane out of her shell. Herald Sun, August 4, 2005.

Aussie chick to nearly reveal all in KFC protest. Dennis Chong, The Standard (China), August 4, 2005.

Most downloaded woman urges KFC to clean up its low-down, dirty ways. Press release, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Undated.

PETA's Anti-KFC Protest Draws More Customers

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ Benjamin Goldsmith organized a protest against a KFC in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. But along with 10 protesters, the activists attracted additional customers to the restaurant.

According to the Associated Press,

Jacqueline Newbold, a supervisor at KFC, said at an uncommon rush of customers required the store to call extra employees at work.

“We had a line going out the door and through the lobby,” Newbold said.

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During the first four hours of business, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Monday, the store had 211 customers compared with 130 the Monday before, supervisor John Simmons said Tuesday.

KFC customer Rusty Smith summed up one view of the protest, telling the Associated Press,

I think there’s a place in this world for all God’s creations . . . right next to the mashed potatoes.

Protester Marcos Carillo chalked such attitudes down to ignorance,

People don’t understand.

No, as I’ve said before, people understand exactly what animal rights activists are demanding, which is why their views are so overwhelmingly rejected by the larger culture.

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Protest draws extra customers. Associated Press, August 3, 2005.

Prosecutor in KFC Supplier Case Receives Threats from Animal Rights Extremists

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WAVE 3 TV reported recently that a special prosecutor assigned to look at allegations of animal cruelty at Pilgrim’s Pride — which supplies chickens to KFC — has received so many threats that an FBI agent has been assigned the task of investigating each of them.

In 2004, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals made public a videotape showing employees of Pilgrim’s Pride in West Virginia kicking, stomping and slamming chickens against walls. In January 2005, however, special prosecutor Ginny Conley announced she wasn’t bringing charges because the videotape was so dark and grainy it was impossible to identify specific individuals for prosecution. She also cited concern that since the alleged abuse took place at a slaughterhouse, that it wasn’t covered by the state’s animal cruelty statutes.

Conley subsequently received enough additional information against those in the video to take her case to a grand jury in June. The grand jury, however, refused to indict the identified individuals.

Pilgrim’s Pride fired 11 people connected to the incidents on the videotape.

Conley told the Associated Press and WAVE 3 TV that she regularly receives harassing e-mails and letters from animal rights extremists, some of which include threats. She told WAVE 3,

There was even an FBI person provided to me to monitor it because the harassment got to such a level.

PETA, for its part, stuck with its “we don’t condone it, but we really do” line. PETA’s Dan Shannon told WAVE TV that PETA doesn’t condone the threats, but added that,

At the same time, you can understand how somebody would be so upset by these animals being tortured and abused, thrown against walls and torn apart. They might be moved with that level of passion.

Reminds me of the time that Shannon said PETA didn’t condone throwing fake blood at KFC’s CEO, while Bruce Friedrich was off doing just that.

The kicker is that Conley told the Associated Press that the harassment from animal rights activists made it harder to focus on making a case against the Pilgrim’s Pride workers,

Special prosecutor Ginny Conley had previously said she had no evidence to warrant criminal charges, but said Wednesday that more evidence had been found that persuaded her to present the case to a grand jury. Pressure from the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals did little to sway her, she said.

“In fact, if anything, the harassment I received from PETA was very intrusive on me performing my duties as prosecutor,” said Conley. “However, after I gained the additional information I received, I felt it at least warranted presentation to the citizens of Hardy County.”

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PETA supporters upset workers on video abusing chickens won’t be charged. Erick Flack, WAVE TV 3, July 19, 2005.

Jury Won’t Indict Chicken Plant Workers. Associated Press, June 8, 2005.

Yum! Brands CEO Required to Fly Via Private Jet for Security Reasons

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In its most recent proxy filing, Yum! Brands — which owns KFC — reported that its CEO David Novak is required by an “executive security program” to use the company’s private jet for all business and personal travel.

Said travel cost the company $72,493 in 2003 and $67,581 in 2004.

Novak has had a number of confrontations with animal rights extremists, including a German incident in which an animal rights activist threw fake blood on Novak.

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Yum! Fly With Me. Restaurant Business, March 24, 2005.

Yum CEO is required to take corporate jet. The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), March 6, 2005.

PETA Doesn't Target Children . . . Except When It Does!

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Back in January, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ Ray Hinkle repeated Ingrid Newkirk’s lie that PETA doesn’t target children. Hinkle was quoted by the Roanoake Times as saying,

[PETA] never hands out things to children under the age of 13 without parents’ permission.

Hmmm, so why did activists show up at Central Middle School in Waterloo, Iowa, to hand out PETA’s Chicken Chumps cards to the students there. Most of the students at Central Middle School are going to be under 13. Was PETA going to ask for permission slips or identification before handing out its cards? Of course not.

On the other hand, someone at the staff of Central Middle School was on the ball (emphasis added),

[PETA activist Chris] Link contacted school officials ahead of time. They let Link’s three-person team come on school property to distribute the cards and talk to the children.

Apparently the fact that Wednesday is early dismissal for Waterloo students didn’t come up in the conversation. At least not until Link showed up at Central at 1 p.m. to scope out the situation in advance of the 2:25 p.m. event.

That’s when he was told the children would be leaving for the day in about a minute.

Sounds like he needs to be handing out Chris Link Chump cards. Apparently Link did rush back to his car, grabbed the cards, and managed to hand out about 100 of them. No word on how he managed to obtain the parent’s permission for all those kids under 13.

Anyways, the freaks activists then headed to KFC to picket along with a person dressed in a chicken costume holding a sign saying, “I’m not a nugget.” (Not that anyone was going to mistake an idiot in a chicken costume for something as delicious as a chicken nugget).

Finally, lets take a look at PETA’s Elizabeth Cooper’s effort to explain the Chicken Chumps cards, which feature characters like “Sickly Sally” and “Tubby Tammy.” Cooper told The Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier,

They’re not gross, but they are icky.

Sort of like PETA’s claim that they don’t condone terrorism, they just think it’d be great if animal enterprises were sent on fire while they hire individuals who think it’d be great if people working in animal enterprises were murdered.

PETA — they’re not terrorists, but they are gross and icky.

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PETA demonstration moves to fast-food restaurant. Jeff Reinitz, Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier, February 24, 2005.

ALF Damages McDonald's, KFC in Torrance, California

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Animal Liberation Front extremists vandalized a McDonald’s and KFC restaurant in Torrance, California, early February 6.

Police responding to a burglar alarm at the McDonald’s found windows at the restaurant smashed and the words “McMurder Killers” and “ALF” painted on a window.

A KFC near the McDonald’s also had its windows damaged.

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Vandals strike a Torrance McDonald’s. Doug Irving, The Daily Breeze, February 8, 2005.

ALF Continues South Bay Campaign Against Fast-Food Giants; Torrance McDonald’s Struck Twice in Week’s Time. Press Release, North American Animal Liberation Press Office, February 14, 2005.

McDonald’s Restaurant in Torrance, CA Latest Target of ALF. Press Release, North American Animal Liberation Press Office, February 7, 2005.

Al Sharpton Joins PETA Campaign

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced a new anti-KFC campaign this month featuring Democratic politician Al Sharpton.

In a press release, Sharpton said,

If KFC wants to take our money and use it to pay for sloppy practices that hurt animals, I say we send them a message that this is not going to happen.

Sharpton is featured in an 8-minute PETA video in which he says, in part,

KFC is not black owned, but it sure knows to market heavily to African Americans … obviously hoping we won’t care about what they do the underdog, or in this case, the underchicken … So, if KFC wants to take our money and use it to pay for sloppy practices that hurt animals—I say we send them a message that this is not going to happen. I’m calling on people to boycott KFC until they adopt animal welfare systems recommended by PETA and until they stop the worst abuses of the birds they raise for their restaurants.

I just have one question about Sharpton’s newfound animal rights activism — how long before he starts accusing KFC of having raped Tawana Brawley? Perhaps they should deploy Sharpton to work on the “Holocaust On Your Plate” as Sharpton was prone to comparing New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams to Adolf Hitler and claimed that Gov. Mario Cuomo had ties to the KKK.

Certainly, Sharpton will fit in well with PETA’s culture of distortions and lies.

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Sharpton Joins Call for Boycott of KFC. Associated Press, February 5, 2005.

Sharpton joins with an animal rights group in calling for a boycott of KFC. Melanie Warner, New York Times, February 2, 2005.

Rev. Al Sharpton Preaches Compassion for Chickens. PETA, Undated.

Community Leader Backs PETAÂ’s Demands for Elimination of Live Scalding and Painful Debeaking of Chickens. Press Release, PETA, February 2, 2005.

PETA Unveils Bloody Col. Sanders Bobblehead

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As part of its campaign against KFC, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently produced 2,000 “Cruel Colonel” dolls. The dolls are bobbleheads showing a Colonel Sanders character with a bloody knife and chicken.

According to the a PETA press release,

The 6-inch, painted ceramic dolls will be handed out at select protests across the country and are a clever way to remind people about KFC’s cruel treatment of chickens. Ask the bobblehead colonel if he likes to torture animals—and see what his response is!

In The Roanoke Times, the Center for Consumer Freedom’s David Martosko suggested that PETA activist might hand the bobbleheads out to children, “which fits right into their ‘Let’s get ‘em young attitude.’” That prompted PETA” Joe Hinkle to lie to Roanoke Times reporter Mike Hudson. Hudson reported,

Hinkle says PETA “never hands out things to children under the age of 13 without parents’ permission.”

Hinkle is a liar. In May 2004, PETA sent activists to Capitol Middle School in Baton Rouge to hand out PETA’s “Chicken Chumps” trading cards. Here’s what the Talon News reported,

Students at Capitol Middle School in Baton Rouge could soon be trading some new “stomach-turning” cards while waiting for the bus thanks to an outreach effort by one of America’s leading animal rights organizations.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will be handing out “Chicken Chumps” trading cards to students as they leave school on Thursday after the school refused to allow the group to give its “Hidden Lives of Chickens” presentation during school hours.

PETA’s Vegan Campaign Coordinator Matt Rice will hand the cards out to kids at 2:10 p.m. as they leave school. He will be joined by two activists. One will be in a chicken costume holding a sign saying “I’m No Nugget,” and another will be wearing a television that will show chickens being slaughtered to make the nuggets the children love to eat.

“Kids would chuck their buckets of chicken into the nearest trash can if they knew how birds suffer in the meat industry,” Rice said on Wednesday.

Most of the children at Capitol Middle School, which serves 6th-8th grade, would be under 13 (not to mention its just funny how half the time they say they don’t target children at all, half the time they do, and the other half they only target kids 13 and over — nothing with PETA ever adds up).

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PETA Doll ruffles KFC’s feathers. Mike Hudson, The Roanoke Times, January 8, 2005.

Animal Rights Activists Again Target School Kids. Charles Mahaleris, Talon News, May 20, 2004.

Jason Baker Fined and Released by Vietnamese Authorities

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals activist Jason Baker was fined $15 by authorities in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for protesting outside a KFC in that city.

The Associated Press quoted Baker as saying,

Everyone knows Vietnam is not a place where you demonstrate.

. . .

I would do it over again in a heartbeat.

I would encourage him to do so (and maybe the next time he’s there, Baker might want to take note of the appalling human rights problem in Vietnam — or would that be asking too much of a “compassionate” person like Baker?)

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Michigan man fined $15 after protesting outside KFC in Vietnam. Associated Press, November 25, 2004.