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#888072 - 01/15/08 08:41 PM PETA goes too far!
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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 Re: PETA goes too far! ~Special K~
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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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#888156 - 01/15/08 09:36 PM Re: PETA goes too far! Pale Rider
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Man those bowls are so gooood...... put some extra gravy and you've got a heck of a meal..

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#888163 - 01/15/08 09:47 PM Re: PETA goes too far! Fork Ate Spoon
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You mean PETA doesn't stand for People Eating Tasty Animals?

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#888168 - 01/15/08 09:51 PM Re: PETA goes too far! BotV#6
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Originally Posted By: Excess
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 Re: PETA goes too far! TheManofSteel
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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 Re: PETA goes too far! Bacon Boy
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Originally Posted By: BaconBoy
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 Re: PETA goes too far! Bacon Boy
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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 Re: PETA goes too far! Sing A Little
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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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#888213 - 01/15/08 10:30 PM Re: PETA goes too far! BotV#6
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I agree, people do not respect traditions. It seems like protestors/organizations are throwing out the 1st amendment when they want to desecrate something such as a funeral.

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#888214 - 01/15/08 10:33 PM Re: PETA goes too far! BotV#6
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All I know is, if that was someone in my family that it was being done to, I'd be very ticked off. PETA should be ashamed of itself for allowing this to be done.
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#888216 - 01/15/08 10:35 PM Re: PETA goes too far! Bacon Boy
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My radio station talked to PETA this morning on air and told them how ridiculous they are! Pretty funny stuff

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#888218 - 01/15/08 10:36 PM Re: PETA goes too far! ~Special K~
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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 Re: PETA goes too far! A_G
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Originally Posted By: AuditGuy
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 Re: PETA goes too far! ~Special K~
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Pulling people out of the ditc...
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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#888250 - 01/15/08 11:00 PM Re: PETA goes too far! HappyGilmore
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Pulling people out of the ditc...
F A R T is censored? WTF???
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#888264 - 01/15/08 11:15 PM Re: PETA goes too far! HappyGilmore
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[censored], poop and [censored] are all censored
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#888265 - 01/15/08 11:16 PM Re: PETA goes too far! Blade Scrapper
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i guess poop isn't. My bad.
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#888268 - 01/15/08 11:21 PM Re: PETA goes too far! Blade Scrapper
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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 Re: PETA goes too far! Pale Rider
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#888293 - 01/16/08 12:21 AM Re: PETA goes too far! Blade Scrapper
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#888346 - 01/16/08 01:35 PM Re: PETA goes too far! Bacon Boy
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I want some KFC now!

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#888409 - 01/16/08 03:02 PM Re: PETA goes too far! ~Special K~
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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 Re: PETA goes too far! ~Special K~
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Originally Posted By: ~Special K~
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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#888523 - 01/16/08 04:27 PM Re: PETA goes too far! °X°
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BUT WHAT IN THE [censored] DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH COL. SANDERS??? AND HIS GRAVE SITE?????


I type in all caps because it seriously pisses me off!! What is Col. Sanders gonna do about it? He sold that company a long time before it became extremely popular.
It disgusts me to no end that people have no respect for the deceased and their final resting place. I'm sooo glad they will be removing that jackass tombstone that was erected.

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