PETA attacks KFC = Killing Friendly Chickens

[MissCatholic]

A KFC bucket of chicken wings translates into a BIG body count. Think about it—every bird has only two wings (if only all math problems were this easy). Log onto KFC’s Web site and you’ll see that about 736 million chickens are killed when they are just 6 or 7 weeks old.

Chickens should be friends, not food! Chickens are friendly, curious little birds who value their lives just as much as you value yours. Did you know that chicken moms talk to their chicks even while the babies are still in the shell? When the chicks are born, their mom watches over them carefully, takes them under her wing to keep them safe, and teaches them all about life.

But chickens on Colonel Sanders’ farms never get to be loved by their moms. These birds’ lives are awful and scary even before they are killed and cut up for food.

Chickens raised for KFC are taken away from their families and stuffed into sheds with tens of thousands of other birds. (Think of how scared you’d be if you were locked inside a crowded room with thousands of people you didn’t know!) The birds aren’t allowed any fresh air or sunshine, and they can barely move (each chicken has to make do with a space smaller than one sheet of notebook paper).

Once they’re fattened up, the birds are thrown into tiny crates and trucked to the slaughterhouse. Some chickens fall off the trucks and are left to die alongside the road. The frightened birds who make it to the slaughterhouse are killed when they are just 6 weeks old—still babies!

[ATFFL]

PETA workers face 25 felony counts in North Carolina

By DARREN FREEMAN, The Virginian-Pilot
© October 15, 2005 | Last updated 11:24 PM Oct. 14

WINTON, N.C. — The cats and dogs two PETA employees have been charged with euthanizing and dumping in an Ahoskie garbage bin were killed by injections of pentobarbital, a barbiturate commonly used to put down animals, according to new warrants issued and served on Friday.

Additionally, the two employees were charged with three felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses. The charges allege that they euthanized three cats from an Ahoskie veterinarian after promising to find the animals new homes, according to the new warrants.

PETA employees Andrew B. Cook, 24, of Virginia Beach, and Adria J. Hinkle, 27, of Norfolk, were served with warrants on 22 felony charges of animal cruelty and the three felony charges of obtaining property by false pretense in court on Friday.

A grand jury is expected to consider formal indictments Oct. 31, Assistant District Attorney Donnie Taylor said.

The new warrants now include more information, such as descriptions of animals investigators found, the causes of death and – in some warrants – photographs of the dead dogs.

The new information was added to clarify the charges, which previously did not have such information as the cause of death, Taylor said.

The two employees are still charged with eight misdemeanor counts of illegal disposal of dead animals and one count of trespassing.

Both have been released on $35,000 bail, and PETA is paying their legal fees. PETA suspended Hinkle for 90 days and did not discipline Cook.

Police began investigating this summer after carcasses of cats and dogs in plastic bags were found in a supermarket garbage bin in Ahoskie every Wednesday for four consecutive weeks. At least 80 animals were found.

Officers say that on June 15 they followed a van after it left Bertie County’s animal shelter, then staked out the garbage bins and arrested two PETA employees.

The officers found 18 dead dogs in a bin and 13 other animal carcasses in the van, which was registered to PETA.

PETA had been picking up animals in northeastern North Carolina since 2001, when a caller informed the group of poor conditions in shelters, according to a written apology PETA President Ingrid Newkirk sent to Bertie County officials.

Bertie County and Northampton County officials and one Ahoskie veterinarian said they believed that adoptable animals would find new homes, while sick, injured and wild animals would be euthanized.

Newkirk has since said that dumping the animals into trash bins violates PETA policy.

PETA typically euthanizes animals in Norfolk and cremates the carcasses, Newkirk said in a June 17 press conference.

Newkirk said at the time that the animals found in North Carolina had likely been given a lethal injection of a barbiturate that PETA is licensed to use.

Bertie and Northampton officials cut ties to PETA pending trial.

The counties are now euthanizing animals without help from PETA.



PETA:  Cruelty to animals is only OK if we do it!

[dazzleman]

PETA:  Cruelty to animals is only OK if we do it!

That pretty well sums up the position of most of these "activist" groups.

[MissCatholic]

PETA:  Cruelty to animals is only OK if we do it!

That pretty well sums up the position of most of these "activist" groups.

what sums up PETA is simple.

we dont support human abortions but we do support attacks on chickens. they dont even protect their own species.

[J. J.]

I support attacks on chickens, cows, fish, pigs, and lambs too.  I eat them.  If PETA doesn't like them, they can buy them all up.

[Nation]

I'm a member of PETA (people eating tasty animals), and I love it.

[dazzleman]

I'm a member of PETA (people eating tasty animals), and I love it.

[MODU]

I often wonder if PETA is made up of nothing but Vegans.  hahaha

Anyway, I could care less about what PETA thinks.  I can enjoy a nice tasty burger while treating my dog as a part of the family.

[ATFFL]

I'm a member of PETA (people eating tasty animals), and I love it.

I even have the pin to prove it.

[MaC]

I'm a member of PETA (people eating tasty animals), and I love it.

I even have the pin to prove it.

You still have that poster-intelligence of PETA members?

[John Dibble]

Don't get me started on PETA.

[bgwah]

Yes, but only because KFC is disgusting. Their food is beyond terrible.

[Speed of Sound]

I support thier stance, but not them.

[angus]

Don't get me started on PETA.

not that I have any idea what all this means, but here's a portion of a photo I took in Times Square on or about June 21 this year.  Notice the billboard.  Odd, isn't it? 



not to trash the thread, but here's one I understood and liked much better

[Everett]

I'm still amazed that PETA can get any followers. What a bunch of nutcases.

[CheeseWhiz]

Haha, gotta love that Kermit ad

Anyway, nope, I don’t support PETA.

[John Dibble]

I'm still amazed that PETA can get any followers. What a bunch of nutcases.

People make assumptions about PETA, and they join without reading everything PETA stands for. If they knew how far PETA went, they would likely not join. There needs to be a better animal rights organization that doesn't take things so far.

[Emsworth]

There needs to be a better animal rights organization that doesn't take things so far.

No, I think that it is better to have PETA, so that the public doesn't take animal rights too seriously.

[John Dibble]

There needs to be a better animal rights organization that doesn't take things so far.

No, I think that it is better to have PETA, so that the public doesn't take animal rights too seriously.

LOL. Well, that's one way to look at it, but by 'better' I mean 'reasonable' - one that wants to prevent unnecessary cruelty, but not one that wants to end all human use of animals.

[ATFFL]

I'm a member of PETA (people eating tasty animals), and I love it.

I even have the pin to prove it.

You still have that poster-intelligence of PETA members?

[KillerPollo]

Will PETA be offended by my name? KillerPollo?

I should've been PolloKiller

[Gabu]

PETA will get my support if they make a very simple change to their organization, which is to stop being PETA and start being not PETA.

[afleitch]

It's intersting to see than MissCatholic has more consideration for baby chickens than she does for gay teenagers.

[MissCatholic]

It's intersting to see than MissCatholic has more consideration for baby chickens than she does for gay teenagers.

excuse me, where did i stat my support for this organisation?

[John Dibble]

It's intersting to see than MissCatholic has more consideration for baby chickens than she does for gay teenagers.

excuse me, where did i stat my support for this organisation?

You simply posted the position of PETA without stating your own as being different, which to some might imply that you support that position. I wasn't sure about it myself, so I didn't say anything.