Sharpton joins with PETA, boycott KFC

“That Al just cracks me up! LOL
My local KFC is Black owned and every person that works there is Black. Damn near all around here that work KFCs are Black.
Who's he hurting the most with this silly PETA crap?


Sharpton Joins With an Animal Rights Group in Calling for a Boycott of KFC
By MELANIE WARNER

Published: February 2, 2005


The Rev. Al Sharpton will not eat at KFC and he doesn't think you should either.

Starting today, Mr. Sharpton is joining forces with the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to urge a boycott of KFC, which is owned by Yum Brands of Louisville, Ky. Mr. Sharpton and PETA want the fast food chain to require its chicken suppliers to put in place new standards for the treatment of the 750 million chickens they process for KFC every year in the United States. The rap mogul Russell Simmons is also joining the Sharpton campaign.

"If we give our money to KFC, we're paying for a life of misery for some of God's most helpless creatures," says Mr. Sharpton in an eight-minute video that will be shown outside KFC's around the country.

PETA has been waging a campaign against KFC for two years. The organization was eager to enlist Mr. Sharpton because KFC has many stores in largely black neighborhoods and in late 2003 KFC executives told investors they were making an increased effort to market to blacks.

Mr. Sharpton and PETA are demanding that KFC force its chicken suppliers, like Pilgrim's Pride and Perdue, to give chickens more room in factory barns and to make use of a process that puts birds to sleep with nitrogen before they are killed. They are also asking KFC to stop its suppliers from forcing such rapid, hormone-driven growth that the birds crumple under their own weight.

PETA said that unlike other companies, KFC has been largely unresponsive. "KFC has been by far the most stubborn corporation we have attempted to work with," said PETA's president, Ingrid Newkirk, in a written statement.

Yum Brands, which also own Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, declined to comment on PETA's demands and allegations. "PETA is an organization more interested in promoting vegetarianism than the truth," a spokesman, Jonathan Blum, said.

PETA recently won a concession from McDonald's, which said it would study the possibility of requiring American suppliers to use the process of so-called controlled-atmosphere killing.

Several years ago, in response to PETA's "Unhappy Meal" campaign, McDonald's, which buys one of every 20 eggs sold in America, agreed to buy eggs only from farms offering hens extra water, more wing room in their cages and fresh air.

PETA says it has chosen to shed light on the chicken industry in recent years because large chicken producers and sellers have made little movement toward more humane practices. "The chicken industry is way behind the beef and pork industries," said Dr. Temple Grandin, associate professor of animal science at Colorado State University and a member of Yum Brands' animal welfare advisory council. "They need to work on getting some of the same auditing systems in place."

Animal welfare specialists like Dr. Grandin agree with PETA that the short lives of chickens need to be improved. Dr. Grandin said that as many as 6 percent of birds suffer broken wings or legs when workers pack them into crates and onto trucks.

"A lot of workers aren't adequately trained," said Dr. Mohan Raj, a senior research fellow at the University of Bristol in Britain and a veterinarian who has studied chicken welfare practices in the United States.

Animal rights activists are hardly KFC's only problem. In recent years, the company has been the financial stepchild at Yum Brands. Last year KFC's same-store sales were down 2 percent; sales increased at Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.
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“well drop my chicken leg, who woulda thunk”

“Would be simpler to just say he's boycotting it because it tastes like a field mouse fried in skunk grease!
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“I prefer Popeye's Fried Chicken as far as fast food chicken goes.”

“I'm still kinda mystified as to why he would adopt the plight of the chicken. Doesn't he know that chicken is white meat?”

“Oh HPM, that's bad. ;-)”

“good for him!”

“Screw the chickens, the poultry industry needs to treat their workers more humanely.

The fast food industry is also peddling food that is loaded with and prepared in hydrogenated vegetable oil.

That stuff is bad for humans in several ways, not the least of which........bad for the cardio/vascular and bad for the IQ.

Most convenience food is loaded with that stuff......cookies, cakes, etc”

“the president of the NAACP and the Dalai Lama are also boycotting KFC. i mean, what a bunch of idiots! they are all soooo silly.
;-)

http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/ce.asp”

“Funny... when Paul McCartney and Pamela Anderson joined PETA's protest against KFC, there were no similar threads.

What's up with that?”

“Stovie likes Popeye's and Pam's big boobies!”

“jinx!”

“I mean, really!!

What kind of knucklehead calls himself a Llama?”

“Don't forget Poulet Frit Kentuckie.....PFK !!”

“Sure lyra, if it was Kentucky Fried Monkeys I bet you'd change your tune!”

“Supporting raising a food animal more naturally is such a bad thing. I mean, who wouldn't want huge amounts of growth hormones pumped into their bargain bucket, yum.”

“you know I think that may take off Vio”

“I can see lyra now; dressed in a monkey suit across the street, yelling through a megaphone!

That one looks Extra Krispy!”

“http://www.popeyes.com/

76 locations in NYC!”

“gasp, Aero, i can't believe you even mentioned that!! oh the horror.
;-)

but seriously now. i don't understand why a person who speaks out for the oppressed (eww, i hate that word, it's so overused and cliche...but anyway) shouldn't identify with another oppressed group (factory-farmed animals) and try to better their situation. just because some black people have jobs at KFC? not every job is a good one, ya know, or helps the person who holds it. what if he was against child labor or sweatshops? then it wouldn't seem so silly.”

“WHAT!! LOL, Violin...where did you even find that. i didn't see that before i posted!”

“StoveStomper: Life member of PNETA (People for the Non-Ethical Treatment Of Animals).”

“when I was in mexico they had
kentucky fried iguana

no i did not try it.”

“lyra - I am the official keeper of the internet. Google asks me for help when they get stumped.”

“They got iguana in Kentucky?”

“you are a giant goober! :-)”

“The only reason to boycott KFC is because their chicken is greasy and sucks. Last bucket I got the bottom of the bucket almost fell out.

Hey Sharpton got smart. He decided to throw his hat in the ring to help a cause he thought could actually do some good. I think this is the lesson he learned from trying to go with the democrat party. He thinks KFC is a better cause than the DNC. LOL!”

“http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/01/iraq.hostage/index.html

It's not KFC, but it's Fuego!!!”

“to bad someone doesn't take Sharpton and J. Jackson and turn them into a Dick on a Stick”

“Funny, the embedded ad I see is for Colitis and Crohn's disease.”

“I'm a proud member of PETA, People for Eating Tasty Animals! ;-)”

“SS can I join? I like eating tasty animals too.”

“Love them tasty animals!!!
Yum Yum!!”

“Everybody should commit suicide...that way we don't need to kill animals and plants. How's that for reaching Zen.”

“Doesn't matter if your a meat eater or a vegan. Both ways something dies. It's just easier for the vegans to catch their food.”

“Nigal, I don't know those round veggies can have you running all over the place. At least you get some excerise b4 u eat”

“I wonder how many animals are killed as a result of being pushed out of there homes when new farms start, or how many are killed by farmers when the animals start eating the crops?”

“How's about lookin' into the sexual abuse of farm animals?

Why is the religious right not crackin' down on that?”

“I man don’t
Eat up your fried chicken
Not lickin’
I man don’t
Eat up them frankfurters
Garbage
I man don’t
Eat down the hamburger
Can’t do that
I man don’t
Drink pink, blue, yellow, green soda

Peter Tosh Lyrics”

“Both ways something dies.

My 10 y.o. daughter uses that same argument. My response is always, "Shut up and finish your tofu!"”

“Oooooooo, I'll remember that one!”