PETA To Step Up Anti-KFC Campaign

Doglips · 03-24-2004, 07:07 PM

Now I think PETA is a bunch of nut cases....but if they hand my kid a bucket of blood....welp I might just have to beat the crap out of a peta freak.

PETA To Step Up Anti-KFC Campaign

By SONJA BARISIC
Associated Press Writer Mar 24, 2004

NORFOLK - 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 middle and high schools near the restaurants. The buckets are part of PETA's international 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 Corp. 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."

"They misrepresent the truth about our responsible, industry-leading animal welfare standards," Warschauer said. "We're committed to the humane treatment of chickens."

KFC has an animal welfare advisory council made up of highly regarded experts and while the company does not own chicken farms, it monitors suppliers to determine whether they are using humane procedures, she said.

KFC Corp. is based in Louisville, Ky. Its parent company is Yum! Brands Inc.

PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said the campaign is "about getting KFC to stop supporting abuse of chickens that shocks the conscience of any kind person."

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."

Friedrich said PETA has been on the factory farms and inside the slaughterhouses of KFC suppliers and also monitors industry journals.

The buckets are reminiscent of the "Unhappy Meals" PETA began distributing in 2000 as part of a public relations assault against McDonald's. The boxes, similar to the Happy Meals that McDonald's serves to children, contained a stuffed doll that looked like Ronald McDonald holding a bloody butcher's knife.

PETA suspended its campaign against McDonald's in response to an announcement by the fast-food chain that it would improve living conditions for its chickens. McDonald's officials said PETA had nothing to do with its initiative.

"We're hoping that by smearing KFC's iconic bucket we might have similar success" against KFC, said Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan campaigns.

PETA has held more than 2,000 demonstrations against KFC in more than 15 countries since January 2003, Friedrich said.

PETA plans to begin handing out the buckets on the West Coast and in the Midwest in mid- to late April, then branch out from there, Friedrich said. PETA eventually will have people distributing the buckets all over North America as well as in Australia, India, the United Kingdom and South Africa, he said.

03-24-2004, 07:09 PM

Rave · 03-24-2004, 08:30 PM

Entirely too much time and money on their hands!

jerry · 03-24-2004, 08:47 PM

I agree.......

"KFC Corp. 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."

Get over it freaks!

MAX7.62 · 03-24-2004, 10:37 PM

Considering these trying days we live in and the rampant life threatening diseases associated with blood - I'm thinkng I would add some of the PETA buckethander's drippings to the mess in basic self defense of a potential life threatening situation to my family member and myself.

It's amazing when nieve dope smoking liberals get blown away by gun toting conservatives for being stupid and the rest of them can't figure out why this "sadistic act of violence" took place? It's still a free country with a strong following of the second amendment - if you feel strong enough about your cause to die for it then see how far you can overstep your boundries before the cap goes pop. In a way these guys aren't THAT stupid - it's like walking point on patrol. Somebody's got to do it and unfortunatly sometimes you lose a guy but you know what the enemy's boundries are and where he is when the point guy goes down. So peta keeps pushing their limits and interpretations of what their rights are - until one of their point guys gets taken out, then they have a big meeting and tell everyone not to do that one anymore?
Look, peta guys, farm animals is for groceries, been that way since the cave guys invented cows and such. If you want to show the love to your animal buddies, go smoke a big group doobie and find a grizzly to hug. I know he will appreciate your stance on animal rights and feel the love you guys are bringing - and you can all dance off through the woods just like the little Greatful Dead Happy Bears!

Sniper[MI] · 03-24-2004, 11:39 PM

Had me some KFC Chicken for dinner tonight, and I'll have me some KFC Chicken for lunch tomorrow....

And if someone hands me or mine one of those buckets, I'll just laugh and throw it in the garbage can and tell them to get a life. Ask them how they like living in mommies basement and ask them if they have ever been kissed by the opposite sex that wasnt a parent on a drunken bender.....

Have a Bucket Of Chicken, KFC Chicken....

BTW, I have a sheet full of KFC coupons....from the local paper...if they show up outside out KFC, I just may stand there and hand out KFC coupons....

"Don't listen to the tofu loving idiots, have yourself some chicken" will be my protest cry....

Doglips · 03-25-2004, 05:47 AM

Welp I guess I miss read this group...I done went and signed everyone one here up to help the protest.....even got Hillery in 2004 bottons for everyoen...and now you all dont want to protect them poor chickens

Rave · 03-25-2004, 10:18 AM

As if life weren't complicated enough allready!

PAPA G · 03-25-2004, 03:32 PM

won't happen around here......too many rednecks who love their KFC.

Rave · 03-28-2004, 12:14 PM

....the power of stupid people in large numbers!

Big Dog · 03-28-2004, 03:32 PM

It would never work down here. My favorite KFC is walking distance from FAMU - our Black University. Those fellas take their chicken serious! And us 'necks - we'd be there beside them, sending those cackling peta-freaks packing and dripping.
You don't mess with a man's food in Florida.

In deference to "walking in another's shoes", I did once visit a "vegetarian restaraunt". It's real close to work. Hmmmm . . . eight bucks for a couple side dishes?

It left me wondering - where's the meat!?

Rufus Rhastus J · 03-29-2004, 09:04 AM

I'm shocked and appauled! The hate you guys muster is impressive! I think you just need some education! Those PETA freaks....um, er....folks, they are just like us! It's just that they. like gays,.......are living an alturnative life style! 'Taint natural!

SexyRedXterra · 03-29-2004, 09:13 AM

With making all these stupid buckets, don't they know they are cutting down trees? The EPA should be all over them. That would be funny.

Shaun · 03-29-2004, 10:22 AM

I like PETA

People
Eating
Tastey
Animals

I am a full fledged member and make sure to eat a fair share of deer and chickens every year

NRAJOE · 03-29-2004, 10:25 AM

I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight....

Sniper[MI] · 03-29-2004, 04:35 PM

Pickin KFC outta my teeth again today!

03-24-2004, 07:07 PM	#1
Doglips Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Cocoa Florida Posts: 9,089	PETA To Step Up Anti-KFC Campaign Now I think PETA is a bunch of nut cases....but if they hand my kid a bucket of blood....welp I might just have to beat the crap out of a peta freak. PETA To Step Up Anti-KFC Campaign By SONJA BARISIC Associated Press Writer Mar 24, 2004 NORFOLK - 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 middle and high schools near the restaurants. The buckets are part of PETA's international 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 Corp. 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." "They misrepresent the truth about our responsible, industry-leading animal welfare standards," Warschauer said. "We're committed to the humane treatment of chickens." KFC has an animal welfare advisory council made up of highly regarded experts and while the company does not own chicken farms, it monitors suppliers to determine whether they are using humane procedures, she said. KFC Corp. is based in Louisville, Ky. Its parent company is Yum! Brands Inc. PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said the campaign is "about getting KFC to stop supporting abuse of chickens that shocks the conscience of any kind person." 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." Friedrich said PETA has been on the factory farms and inside the slaughterhouses of KFC suppliers and also monitors industry journals. The buckets are reminiscent of the "Unhappy Meals" PETA began distributing in 2000 as part of a public relations assault against McDonald's. The boxes, similar to the Happy Meals that McDonald's serves to children, contained a stuffed doll that looked like Ronald McDonald holding a bloody butcher's knife. PETA suspended its campaign against McDonald's in response to an announcement by the fast-food chain that it would improve living conditions for its chickens. McDonald's officials said PETA had nothing to do with its initiative. "We're hoping that by smearing KFC's iconic bucket we might have similar success" against KFC, said Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan campaigns. PETA has held more than 2,000 demonstrations against KFC in more than 15 countries since January 2003, Friedrich said. PETA plans to begin handing out the buckets on the West Coast and in the Midwest in mid- to late April, then branch out from there, Friedrich said. PETA eventually will have people distributing the buckets all over North America as well as in Australia, India, the United Kingdom and South Africa, he said.

03-24-2004, 07:09 PM	#2
Logansdad Guest Posts: n/a	somebody ever hands my son a bucket of blood is going to wind up wearing it

03-24-2004, 08:47 PM	#4
jerry Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 10,870 Images: 9 Blog Entries: 1	I agree....... "KFC Corp. 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." Get over it freaks! __________________ I'm a down home back woods redneck

03-24-2004, 10:37 PM	#5
MAX7.62 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Classified Posts: 934	Considering these trying days we live in and the rampant life threatening diseases associated with blood - I'm thinkng I would add some of the PETA buckethander's drippings to the mess in basic self defense of a potential life threatening situation to my family member and myself. It's amazing when nieve dope smoking liberals get blown away by gun toting conservatives for being stupid and the rest of them can't figure out why this "sadistic act of violence" took place? It's still a free country with a strong following of the second amendment - if you feel strong enough about your cause to die for it then see how far you can overstep your boundries before the cap goes pop. In a way these guys aren't THAT stupid - it's like walking point on patrol. Somebody's got to do it and unfortunatly sometimes you lose a guy but you know what the enemy's boundries are and where he is when the point guy goes down. So peta keeps pushing their limits and interpretations of what their rights are - until one of their point guys gets taken out, then they have a big meeting and tell everyone not to do that one anymore? Look, peta guys, farm animals is for groceries, been that way since the cave guys invented cows and such. If you want to show the love to your animal buddies, go smoke a big group doobie and find a grizzly to hug. I know he will appreciate your stance on animal rights and feel the love you guys are bringing - and you can all dance off through the woods just like the little Greatful Dead Happy Bears! __________________ The Second Amendment, it ain't about DUCK HUNTING! I feel more like I do now that I did when I first got here!

03-24-2004, 11:39 PM	#6
Sniper[MI] Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Future 51st state, "New Hope" Posts: 3,796	YUP! Had me some KFC Chicken for dinner tonight, and I'll have me some KFC Chicken for lunch tomorrow.... And if someone hands me or mine one of those buckets, I'll just laugh and throw it in the garbage can and tell them to get a life. Ask them how they like living in mommies basement and ask them if they have ever been kissed by the opposite sex that wasnt a parent on a drunken bender..... Have a Bucket Of Chicken, KFC Chicken.... BTW, I have a sheet full of KFC coupons....from the local paper...if they show up outside out KFC, I just may stand there and hand out KFC coupons.... "Don't listen to the tofu loving idiots, have yourself some chicken" will be my protest cry.... __________________ FNUH!

03-24-2004, 08:30 PM	#3
Rave Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tampa Posts: 6,859	Entirely too much time and money on their hands!

03-25-2004, 05:47 AM	#7
Doglips Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Cocoa Florida Posts: 9,089	Welp I guess I miss read this group...I done went and signed everyone one here up to help the protest.....even got Hillery in 2004 bottons for everyoen...and now you all dont want to protect them poor chickens

03-25-2004, 10:18 AM	#8
Rave Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tampa Posts: 6,859	As if life weren't complicated enough allready!

03-25-2004, 03:32 PM	#9
PAPA G Guest Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: somerset, kentucky Posts: 12	won't happen around here......too many rednecks who love their KFC.

03-28-2004, 12:14 PM	#10
Rave Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tampa Posts: 6,859	Never underestimate ..... ....the power of stupid people in large numbers!

03-28-2004, 03:32 PM	#11
Big Dog Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tallahassee, Florida Posts: 10,205	It would never work down here. My favorite KFC is walking distance from FAMU - our Black University. Those fellas take their chicken serious! And us 'necks - we'd be there beside them, sending those cackling peta-freaks packing and dripping. You don't mess with a man's food in Florida. In deference to "walking in another's shoes", I did once visit a "vegetarian restaraunt". It's real close to work. Hmmmm . . . eight bucks for a couple side dishes? It left me wondering - where's the meat!? __________________ Moderator of: AR15/M16, M14/M1A, New/Beginning Shooters and Militaria/Collectables.

03-29-2004, 09:04 AM	#12
Rufus Rhastus J Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: West, Central Florida, Third World America Posts: 6,339 Images: 1	Look guys... I'm shocked and appauled! The hate you guys muster is impressive! I think you just need some education! Those PETA freaks....um, er....folks, they are just like us! It's just that they. like gays,.......are living an alturnative life style! 'Taint natural! __________________ "They cannot be trusted.....The Romulans (our politicos) are without honor." Worf

03-29-2004, 09:13 AM	#13
SexyRedXterra Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: NJ Shore and Western PA Posts: 1,206	With making all these stupid buckets, don't they know they are cutting down trees? The EPA should be all over them. That would be funny. __________________ "God doesn't always do things on our schedule, but he's always right on time."

03-29-2004, 10:22 AM	#14
Shaun Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 8,592 Images: 1	I like PETA People Eating Tastey Animals I am a full fledged member and make sure to eat a fair share of deer and chickens every year __________________ "Homeland Security is the responsibility of an armed citizen" ME http://webpages.charter.net/s.s.v/

03-29-2004, 10:25 AM	#15
NRAJOE Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Toledo,OH Posts: 19,043 Images: 3	I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight.... __________________ U.S. Army 1976-1979 237th Combat Engineers Heilbronn, Germany

03-29-2004, 04:35 PM	#16
Sniper[MI] Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Future 51st state, "New Hope" Posts: 3,796	I aided the victimization and terrorism some more! Pickin KFC outta my teeth again today! __________________ FNUH!