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CadetStimpy · 2004-01-14 10:23 pm

Ok, what's everybody think of PETA's recent billboards attacking Kentucky Fried Chicken? You know, the big ones of the ol' Colonel hackin' up a chicken like Jason on a teenage cheerleader in an ol' slasher movie?

Personally, I think they're the funniest things I've ever seen. Now, I know some folks will say I'm 'cruel and heartless' to animals, but come on. There's no really humane way to whack a chicken. My granny used to chase 'em down, snatch 'em up by the neck and pop their little heads off. Little headless chicken, head hanging by a few sinews, running around the yard, bumping into the garage and fences, blood spurtin' everywhere... Is there a 'clean, humane' way to kill anything, really?

If we're gonna eat 'em, we gotta kill 'em. You either eat meat, or you don't. Personal choice for everyone, and I don't begrudge folks being veggie types. Some of my closest friends are. I just think this whole 'the chickens are suffering' campaign is a bit silly.

The billboards are a hoot, though. Looks like more of a freaky movie trailer than a protest. But then, I've got a rather warped sense of humor, anyway. big_smile

jkahless · 2004-01-14 10:27 pm

I wonder if they could be sued for libel?

joseph_tso · 2004-01-14 10:44 pm

I sure hope the Colonel wasn't wearing white when doing the hacking.

My dad in Thailand worked at a butcher's shop. For a day. He told me they would hang dead chickens by slicing a tendon and the chicken foot would clench on to the rod. made him throw up.

jaxbrokenheart · 2004-01-14 11:21 pm

the chickens are suffering

not if you kill them fast enough.

o, and chicken tastes great

o, and remember to recycle your animals.

that's all.

oatmeal · 2004-01-14 11:28 pm

Got a link to a picture of one of these billboards?

shoeman · 2004-01-14 11:48 pm

I've been having this unusual craving for KFC lately.

On another note,

Save the bones for Henry Jones because Henry don't eat no meat.

Camp David · 2004-01-15 7:42 am

PETA's campaign has seriously harmed American farmers... beef and poultry farmers have suffered increasing damages from PETA and they are unable to recoup losses. Other legitimate enterprises, fur farmers who contribute to furrier trade, wildlife trappers, hunters, and sportsmen, have all suffered from PETA's tactics, which sometimes border on terrorism; i.e, firebombing of animal medical testing facilities, destruction of private sportsmen lodges, and theft of farm and agricultural equipment. Further, PETA has been in the forefront of the eco-terror movement, threatening and damaging forestry equipment, and jeopardizing lives of lumbermen by hammering steel spikes in trees which rip out saws at lumbermill and often injure lumbermen.

If you think PETA is a peaceful political lobby group think again. PETA practices and supports domestic terrorism.

Camp David

~Coxy · 2004-01-15 7:52 am

If you think PETA is a peaceful political lobby group think again. PETA practices and supports domestic terrorism.

Wow, this is the first time that you've said something that I agree with.

Asystole · 2004-01-15 8:46 am

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CadetStimpy · 2004-01-15 8:57 am

http://maddox.xmission.com/sponsor.html

Hehe. I love it. big_smile

Here's a copy of the billboard. It's on another Peta-like site.

http://www.animalrights.net/articles/2003/000304.html

Og · 2004-01-15 9:09 am

remember to recycle your animals.

Everything I eat gets recycled back into the ecosystem. big_smile

and those PETA people are smurfing freaks.

oatmeal · 2004-01-15 12:49 pm

http://maddox.xmission.com/sponsor.html
Hehe. I love it.

Here's a copy of the billboard. It's on another Peta-like site.

http://www.animalrights.net/articles/2003/000304.html

Good stuff. lol

I already don't eat at KFC... much. No higher purpose, it's just cheaper to fry my own chicken at home.

There are a couple of chicken slaughterhouses on the Eastern Shore of Virgina (Tyson and... um... I don't remember the other one mad ), and you have to drive past them to go North there. They're unavoidable.

They stink to high heaven. Every time we go by there my wife and I wonder aloud how the hell anyone could live near that stench factory.
(There are several houses around it.)

If anything would do it, that would put me off eating chicken. It hasn't as of yet.

Aqua OS X · 2004-01-15 4:20 pm

Ahhh yes...
Here's the PETA / KFC website.
http://www.kfccruelty.com/

Technically, there are more humane ways to treat chickens. You can allow them to be free range animals, and then you can use one of these new machines:
http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/200 … 4jun03.htm

to gently sweep them into their journey to your mouth. shrug

Nevertheless, I think PETA needs to chose it's battles wisely. They have a habit of uncovering something most people will agree is cruel (ie. force feeding dogs and cats shampoo) , yet then they will go off on a crazy vegan induced animal rights campaign that most folks don't give a smurf about. If they would stop doing the latter, they would probably have more credibility.

Chickens are, more or less, dumber then smurf. Most people don't really care about an animal that can, literally, live for years without the vast majority of it's pathetic central nervous system. ie... its $%^&ing head.

http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/headless_chicken/
http://www.flickit.com/mike.html

I think PETA should be focusing it's efforts on more important animal cruelty problems. This campaign is only going to discredit PETA and make them look like a bunch of crazy hippies who want suffrage for chickens.

Phydeaux · 2004-01-15 4:33 pm

If you think PETA is a peaceful political lobby group think again. PETA practices and supports domestic terrorism.
Wow, this is the first time that you've said something that I agree with.

I'm more nervous about Greenpeace gutting me at night than PeTA. :shudder:

Primes_Lady · 2004-01-15 4:57 pm

There is a PETA billboard in Knoxville, Tennessee that has a man with breasts! PETA claims that meat causes tissue in the man's breast to become like women's breasts! Have you ever heard anything like that before??!! eek

SwisSlesS · 2004-01-15 5:05 pm

I love KFC...it's almost as good as Popeye's. big_smile

Phydeaux · 2004-01-15 5:27 pm

There is a PETA billboard in Knoxville, Tennessee that has a man with breasts! PETA claims that meat causes tissue in the man's breast to become like women's breasts! Have you ever heard anything like that before??!!

Most of PeTAs claims are bullsmurf.

Like the milking of cows, for example. I think it was the one think kb and CD agreed on.

oatmeal · 2004-01-15 5:34 pm

This thread made me hungry. I made myself some popcorn chicken.

It's amazing - a couple of chopped up chicken tenderloins, some shake-and-bake, pop them in the deep frier and KAZAM!

Popcorn chicken for a fraction of the restaurant price.

(Yeah, I know. Shake and bake, and I deep-fried it. Popcorn chicken comes out crispier that way, damn it! big_smile )

jkahless · 2004-01-15 5:51 pm

So if we bred chickens without brains would that be ok for PETA?

How about Meet the Meat? Woud PETA be OK with that?

CadetStimpy · 2004-01-15 6:42 pm

I just read the thread on Mike, the headless chicken - that's absolutely amazing! big_smile

I agree, though. I think PETA's wasting a lost of time and effort on a cause they can't, and don't really need to win. Chickens are chickens - we breed them and raise them to eat. Most people don't keep them as pets (although I'm sure some people somewhere do.) Frankly, they're a food source. I agree, we should try to dispatch them as quickly and neatly as possible, but it seems (especially when you read the thread mentioned above) that we're probably not causing them too much pain and suffering as it is.

I don't care for cruelty to animals, but I don't see it here. Myself, I've taken in countless homeless cats and kittens, dogs and puppies, fed them, paid their medical bills, and found homes for them. It would seem that PETA could do much more by focusing on things like this than trying to attack the good ol' Colonel. Heck, I grew up on KFC. Popeye's is good, mind you, but nothing beats a bucket of the Colonel's original recipe. And it's even better after being in the fridge overnight. big_smile

CadetStimpy · 2004-01-15 6:47 pm

There are a couple of chicken slaughterhouses on the Eastern Shore of Virgina (Tyson and... um... I don't remember the other one ), and you have to drive past them to go North there. They're unavoidable.

They stink to high heaven. Every time we go by there my wife and I wonder aloud how the hell anyone could live near that stench factory.
(There are several houses around it.)

If anything would do it, that would put me off eating chicken. It hasn't as of yet.

I know what you mean. A friend of mine used to raise chickens, geez, they stink when you only have a few of them. I can't imagine what a whole commercial operation would smell like. Not something I'd like to live next to. tongue

oatmeal · 2004-01-15 8:07 pm

There are a couple of chicken slaughterhouses on the Eastern Shore of Virgina (Tyson and... um... I don't remember the other one ), and you have to drive past them to go North there. They're unavoidable.

They stink to high heaven. Every time we go by there my wife and I wonder aloud how the hell anyone could live near that stench factory.
(There are several houses around it.)

If anything would do it, that would put me off eating chicken. It hasn't as of yet.
I know what you mean. A friend of mine used to raise chickens, geez, they stink when you only have a few of them. I can't imagine what a whole commercial operation would smell like. Not something I'd like to live next to.

What's worse is that the sadistic highway department bastards drop the speed limit from 55 to 30 in that area. Nothing but stench for miles on end, and they make you drive slower. Just about the time the smell disappears, the speed limit bumps back up again.

I really think it's someone's bad idea of a joke.

jaxbrokenheart · 2004-01-15 10:31 pm

i don't see why anyone is making fun of them, they are great!

i, for one, am proud to be part of People Eating Tasty Animals

LuckyJ · 2004-01-15 10:39 pm

I love KFC...it's almost as good as Popeye's.

Now now... lets not blaspheme. Popeye's is the greatest fried chicken EVAR. And those biscuts... mmmmm... the biscuts... ahhh

SwisSlesS · 2004-01-15 11:02 pm

That's what I'm saying. Popeye's is the best. big_smile

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