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#888072 - 01/15/08 08:41 PM
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PETA Takes Fight to Col. Sanders's Grave January 10, 2008 05:57 PM ET | Bedard, Paul | Permanent Link
Its members have protested at Kentucky Fried Chicken stores and even burned Col. Harland Sanders in effigy. But now People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is going to the grave to target KFC—actually, Colonel Sanders's resting place, Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery. Matt Prescott, PETA's anti-KFC boss, has just put up his tombstone three sections from the Colonel. On it is a 16-line acrostic poem, with letters down the left side reading, "KFC tortures birds." Cemetery Superintendent Lee Squires isn't amused and promises to remove the tombstone. "KFC wouldn't appreciate it," he tells us. "That's politically incorrect and basically inflammatory."
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#888096 - 01/15/08 08:54 PM
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with those cholesterol bowls they sell, I would have expected this from the American Heart Assoc., so is this guy dead yet (I mean Mr. Prescott)?
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#888168 - 01/15/08 09:51 PM
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You mean PETA doesn't stand for People Eating Tasty Animals? That avatar looks tasty
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#888202 - 01/15/08 10:18 PM
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I love KFC, but I'm also fond of Church's and could really go for Popeye right about now. I'm totally getting all snarfed up just thinking about this.
But, back on topic, I think anyone who conducts themselves in such a manner at a funeral or an established gravy should be hobbled and thrown to the pigs.
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#888206 - 01/15/08 10:25 PM
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I love KFC, but I'm also fond of Church's and could really go for Popeye right about now. I'm totally getting all snarfed up just thinking about this.
But, back on topic, I think anyone who conducts themselves in such a manner at a funeral or an established gravy should be hobbled and thrown to the pigs. Someones thinking about dinner.
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#888208 - 01/15/08 10:26 PM
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Ok, you must be hungry, you said gravy instead of grave. LOL
I think that funerals and gravesites should be off limits for all of these crazy protests.
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#888210 - 01/15/08 10:28 PM
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Okay, so the talk of those bowls did me in. Yes, I meant "grave" and typed "gravy." Hork!
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#888218 - 01/15/08 10:36 PM
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you own a radio station Karen? and you still work a 9-5? impressive!
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#888221 - 01/15/08 10:39 PM
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you own a radio station Karen? and you still work a 9-5? impressive! I knew that was coming...right after i hit the precious SUBMIT! Yeah it's my radio station so there! ha
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#888249 - 01/15/08 10:59 PM
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looking at the title in yellow, I thought it said "PETA goes to [censored]" I was gonna notify Al so he could put them on a pollution watch list...
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#888264 - 01/15/08 11:15 PM
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[censored], poop and [censored] are all censored
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#888265 - 01/15/08 11:16 PM
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i guess poop isn't. My bad.
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#888268 - 01/15/08 11:21 PM
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that WTF better be "what the f a r t" ?
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#888277 - 01/15/08 11:33 PM
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Where's the food?
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#888293 - 01/16/08 12:21 AM
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Where's that fur?
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#888409 - 01/16/08 03:02 PM
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I almost went for some last night, but decided to drink instead.
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#888470 - 01/16/08 03:55 PM
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PETA Takes Fight to Col. Sanders's Grave January 10, 2008 05:57 PM ET | Bedard, Paul | Permanent Link
Its members have protested at Kentucky Fried Chicken stores and even burned Col. Harland Sanders in effigy. But now People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is going to the grave to target KFC—actually, Colonel Sanders's resting place, Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery. Matt Prescott, PETA's anti-KFC boss, has just put up his tombstone three sections from the Colonel. On it is a 16-line acrostic poem, with letters down the left side reading, "KFC tortures birds." Cemetery Superintendent Lee Squires isn't amused and promises to remove the tombstone. "KFC wouldn't appreciate it," he tells us. "That's politically incorrect and basically inflammatory." KFC wouldn't appreciate it - who cares what KFC thinks and if they don't like it, sue someone (and lose). Anyway, this is nothing as PETA has done tons of stuff to make a point to the clueless masses. Is there something about "KFC tortures birds" that you don't understand? Yes, they torture birds. The process that PETA wants changed is standard throughout the poultry industry. It goes like this: Chickens are brought from farms and dumped from crowded cages onto a conveyer belt. As the birds move down, a big machine hovers over them and shackles the legs of as many as 180 chickens per minute. But because of the rapid pace of the line, many chickens are hung by only one leg instead of two -- which can clog the machine as it works. After the birds are caught and shackled, they enter an electrically charged water bath. This is supposed to stun the birds before they meet the slicing machine. "The problem is that the level of voltage that is required to actually render them insensitive to pain can cause damage to the meat of the birds," says Shannon. "So most of these places set the stun voltage much lower than it needs to be set [for humane slaughter] to preserve meat quality." Chickens, still shackled and hanging upside down, next move through a machine with a guide rail. This positions their necks close to a spinning blade that will slice their throats without beheading. Some chickens arrive to this machine fully conscious and writhing in pain, Shannon says. Next, the birds pass through to an employee who uses a knife to slit the necks of any chickens still alive. "The machine misses a lot of birds, because they miss the guide rail," Shannon says. "In these places, you're talking about hundreds of birds going through every minute. Unfortunately, manual workers wielding knives can't possibly get every one." After their throats are slit, the chickens move to a scald tank, which uses water heated to just under boiling. Birds are dunked into the tank and the scalding water removes their feathers. But according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), a percentage of birds are not dead when they enter the scald tank and drown. USDA data from 2002 shows that more than 3.7 million chickens -- out of the billions processed annually -- died as a result of burns or drowning in the tanks. Of course, the final step - you eat chicken body parts and have gone through torture.
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