Has PETA gone too far with this one?

Question

PETA opposes tribute to fried chicken Sat Feb 9, 7:02 AM ET

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Animals rights advocates are squawking at a measure that would make fried chicken Kentucky's official picnic food.

State Rep. Charles Siler is sponsoring legislation to assign the designation to KFC's "finger lickin' good" chicken, first served by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1940.

The late colonel's fried chicken deserves the title because of the worldwide attention and economic benefit it has brought to the state, Siler said. KFC, a subsidiary of Louisville-based Yum Brands Inc., has 11,000 restaurants in more than 80 countries.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals bristles at the idea. The animal rights group claims that the chickens KFC serves are abused, even tortured.

Answer 1

PETA does this everytime

Answer 2

I am a vegetarin.  I believe in the ethical treatment of animals but PETA is nuts.  They are way to extreme.  I strongly believe that people have the right to live their life in the manner they please (for the most part).  You cannot force people to see things your way.

I must admit though, I agree with them on this one.  People can eat animals, but not torture them.  It breaks my heart.

Answer 3

As I sit here eating my hamburger, I must admit that I don't give a #*$% about anything PETA has to say.

Answer 4

Birds of a feather, Get Eaten!

Answer 5

PETA claims that all these birds are diseased and crippled. If they really are wouldnt they kind of be better off dead? we don't have many medicines for chickens so if K. F. Sizzle didn't serve them to hungry people, wouldn't they just sit there and be miserable until they finally died. and as for debeaked and scalded- if they scald the chickens to kill them the probably could find a better way of doing that and as for debeaked- have any of them seen someone eating a chicken with it's beak still attached?

Answer 6

No it has not.

Radical forms of protest are essential these days. I do not believe in protesting Non-vegetarianism , it is a business like any other. I certainly cannot stand for institutionalizing cruelty to animals in the name of  industrial growth.

Answer 7

Well, I do believe in the mission of PETA.  I am an animal lover and loathe cruely in ANY form to people or animals.  If shock therapy is the answer, so be it.

Answer 8

That's what I am talking about.

While Bush is pimping out our troops, org like PETA is wasting their time on worthless causes.

A human life is much more important than a chicken or a dog.

Answer 9

PETA goes too far with everything!

Answer 10

As someone that has spent some time around chickens- chickens are dumb really dumb - they are one of the few animals that will eat their own f***s and anything else that they can get down their throat- strange things usually get trapped in their gizzards.

That is why most chickens are raised in such restrained conditions- because you have to monitor what they eat very closely because they will eat anything. If you are going to sell your chickens as food- you had better watch what they eat ( another reason to be a little wary of the free range chicken- that just means they are running loose in someone's yard eating whatever).

PETA really needs to get a life-

I happen to love KFC even if it is really bad for me.

Answer 11

I agree they are nuts!

Answer 12

PETA has a mission, which is nice

but I like KFC, which is nicer

Answer 13

The sad thing is though, its true.

Answer 14

another gruop that has lost it's grip on reallity.... Tortured chickens !!! (how waterboarding?) next the ACLU will offer their legal gurus to get a settlement from KFC...

Answer 15

PETA is against the cruel treatment of the chickens, not the use of them. They claim that the chickens that end up in KFC are abused and tortured. It is probably true. They have every right to be against the cruel treatment of animals and I happen to agree with them. We are better than that, and maybe we could at least let the chickens get raised in a decent environment, and die as painlessly as possible before they end up extra crispy on your dinner plate. Is is too much to ask?

Answer 16

PETA is an extremist group whose practices are ridiculous.

We are animals, we are part of the animal kingdom. We also need food. Animals lower on the food chain...are food. For goodness sake, this is nature. Survival of the Fittest. We are the dominant species on Earth.

Bottom line, eating food, chickens or whatever, is nature. We kill animals, nature. They should be d**n happy that we at least raise the animals that we kill, so we don't deplete all the wild animals in this great world.