If you know anything about Peta, you may have heard about their KFC protests. I have attened one of these protests and don't regret it even afer being called a "chickenf*cker" by a man whose mother was probably his aunt, and having a crushed can of soda aimed directly at us so as to hurt us. It's ok. Here is why KFC is one of the largest if not THE largest fast food chicken chains. They have a ton of money. However, they haven't spent a dime reforming their practices. Vegetarian or not, I think we can agree that having our necks slit or being boiled alive is an inhumane death for any creature. If KFC doesn't reform their practices and adopt more humane methods of slaughter, why the heck should Mom and Pop chicken buy from more humane suppliers? All the KFC demo is highlighting is the absolutely barbaric hell these animals go through for a product that is neither necessary or healthful. Please see kentuckyfriedcruelty.com for details about this I think the public is lost on the message. I think when they see the signs that they feel threatened and that demonstrators are demanding vegetariansim. Vegetarianism is a non-violent lifestlye and if you eat animals, you are responsible for their suffering. However, the focus of the demo is to get people to boycott KFC until they agree to be more human with their chickens. I understand "humane" and "killing: do not go togetehr, but we are talking about the most very BASIC of reforms- not cramming the chickens together so tightly that they can't move, not cutting off part of their beaks, not breeding them so large that their bones break from their own weight, not slitting their throats or boiling them while still fully conscious. Please consider attending one of these demos. There is strength in numbers. If you have gone, please share your experience here. Also- this post is not about Peta particularly, your opinion on vegetarianism, etc. I ask that people not hijack the thread and argue why we should eat meat, etc. This post is not about that.
Do you know if any protests are in Indiana? I think one got shut down around here due to failed health inspections. Oh well, one down many more to go. peace and love
I've been to several KFC protests, and it's weird because people who walk in get so defensive about people being out there protesting...you hand them literature, they look at it and they still don't care, or they don't take the literature at all. I suppose it's one of those "You can't handle the truth" kind of things... But I've also done circus protests and you know what? I always get people who drive or walk by and shield their kids eyes so they don't see us or they give us nasty looks and give us the thumbs down (where I proceed to throw up a "peace" sign)...why? I mean...because we're out there protesting something REALLY BAD and DANGEROUS for the animals? It's like saying "You suck because you care about the animals". I think it's so stupid. People are so weird.
I love KFC, same deal with McDonalds, I know what goes into the food and how its made..................................but I don't really care that much.
My policy on KFC: As long as the quality of Snackers, Chicken Tenders, and Extra Crispy White Meat is maintained, fuck the chickens. Sucks for them.
Why? Animals have every right to live, just as much as humans do. Just because they can't communicate with us doesn't mean they don't have thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Think of how much trouble someone would be in if they threw a person in a cage and fed them hormones to make them grow bigger. Or how would you like me to sear off one of your arms or legs with a hot knife? It is unethical and immoral to treat animals any differently than humans. Speciesist.
I agree totally dude. Besides the original post said that slitting the throat was inhumane. Isn't that the way chickens have always been killed? Its either that or wring its neck. Killing for food, however you do it, is never going to be completely humane is it?
Fragment. We'll talk when you learn how to formulate a sentence. When you learn how to formulate a sentence we'll talk. You know better than correcting someone's grammar when your grammar is just as bad.
That was a correctly formulated sentence, actually. When...something...THEN...something else. It works...ever read a book? This is off topic...so don't reply unless you're talking about KFC or protests.
Pro-KFC people and those who like to jump in w/o rading the original post. Please read the last part of the original post.
what the hell kind of post is that about correcting grammar? its fucking ridiulous to try and force vegetarianism on people. I stopped eating meat a long time ago. I unfortunately moved down to the south, where black people love chicken, and people think it's disgusting to go without meat. You can't change the lifestyle of a society of people with protest. To make that "Big" of a decision would take a little education and one on one debate. (big is in quotations because some people do see quitting meat as a big step in their lives.) And if you want to talk about NAFTA's fucking up by opening trade barriers, start a new Thread about wal-mart, target or old navy.
Well what exactly is the correct way to kill a chicken? Has there been research among the chicken community as to a method they would prefer used to terminate their life? I mean lets look at options. There is the chop off the head with an axe and watch em run around, there is the cut out the top of a bleach bottle and slip em in upside down and with utility cutters snip off thier head, how about the two hand hold em and twist, or the talented quick one hand snap, maybe electrocute em, or the boiled alive. Maybe we could get ahold of Dr. Death and he can practice with chickens instead of dying people. Its kind of funny that a vegi would have a viable complaint on the methods used to kill food. I mean a plant that is a living thing that too hase no voice looses its young (fruit) or entire life when harvested. I know you hear nothing when the corn has its fruit torn from its stalks, or lettuce when you rip the heads from the ground but again it just cant communicate with you. Does it make it anyless wrong? You deem me silly but do you honestly know that a plant does not have any sense pain? You go by what maybe science has told you but then you turn your back on science when they say its okay to radiate food, or when they say its okay to put chemicals in things. Cant have it one way and then another, is science right or is it wrong? Why should a vegi care about meat harvest, you dont eat it so why care? I mean I hate certain vegis like broccoli but dont care that some places spread feaces all over the crops and the ppl hired to harvest regularly soil on the crops. Hard to wash out all them little pieces on a broccoli plant.
Ok, not all vegitatians care about how animals are killed...just wanted to get that out of the way.... The reason why people care is because there is a level of communication with animals which is tone, sound, all those things taken into consideration. As for the vegetable/fruit suggestion, I understand what you mean, but i'll ask you now, is a fruit unable to speak, or does it choose not to? My point in asking that is that we haven't achieved enough of a communicative level with plants to consider what they feel. This isn't determined by science. This is "common sense" (i hate that phrase because its bullshit). Adding chemicals to the plants appeals to the people who care about the earth, animals and humans. Mainly because we live on the earth, people live to eat animals, and humans are a necessity to live. Science can not be called right or wrong by one person, barely even by a whole society of people because of religious and individual interpreations. Not all vegitarians care about how animals are slaughtered. It all depends on WHY someones a vegetarian, i only know one perspective in-depth, and thats the biological reasons to stop eating meat overall. The other two I dont know enough of to argue a strict point of view is Religion and.....i want to say PETA, but i think i would be wrong in saying that. It feels a bit morally wrong to kill animals though im sure. bleh. i think there are a lot of holes in my arguement
We care about "meat harvest" because animals can't speak for themselves. Someone has to say that it isn't right to sear off chickens' beaks and pump them with hormones. Someone has to speak up for baby cows who get ripped from their mothers and put in a cage so small they can't move (i.e. veal). It's not morally right...like Mahatma Ghandi once said: "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
But you dont care how your food is harvested and how it is raised and what is being done for it. Seems it would be best to take care of what is affecting you directly first then after you have acheived perfection among it then you could afford to tackle problems outside your own life. A vegi boycott on a meat based fast food chain seems rather like an drunk trying to start a boycott against AA, a man wanting to boycott tampons or a woman wanting to boycott condoms.
