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Pixies frontman Frank Black recently teamed up with peta2, the world's largest animal rights youth advocacy group, petitioning to improve the lives of KFC chickens.
Black has signed a petition in protest of squalid animal treatment and urges fans to do the same. Peta2 warns that the chickens used by Kentucky Fried Chicken stores in the United States "are drugged and bred to grow
so large that many become crippled from the weight of their massive
upper bodies. Their throats are often cut while they are still conscious, and millions of birds are scalded to death in defeathering tanks every year."
"Frank knows that
consumers care about animal welfare, and he's helping to spread the
word that KFC stands for cruelty," the organization's (ironically named) Lara Sanders said. "After all, if KFC executives treated cats or dogs the
way that they allow KFC's suppliers to treat chickens, they'd be hit
with cruelty-to-animals charges."
You can be involved, too. Black's effort is related to a peta2 program called "Give KFC the Bird!," which asks concerned parties for pictures of themselves flipping a KFC sign the middle finger. Click here to submit a photo, or here to sign the petition.
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Really? Spend your time and money on something that actualy matters. Maybe world hunger?
If people ate less meat and more grain it WOULD do something about world hunger, josephsibleybridges.
mmm...chicken
Have you ever worked on a chicken farm? I have and the PETA people know absolutly nothing about how chickens are raised and killed for food. Also, KFC and its parent company regularly donate food and money to needy countries around the world. FOCUS ON SOMETHING THAT REALLY MATTERS. CHICKENS, NOR ANY OTHER ANIMAl, ARE NOT HUMAN.I'm not a KFC or corporate flunky. I just want celebrities to do something useful for a change with their money
Yuum, I'll have to stop & get a bucket on the way home
Maybe he needs to team up with Paul McCartney and just boycott all fast food restaurants. Between the Liverpool Beatles posters and picked on chickens these guys should maybe look into a forming a duo against food places.
Please, please, please can these musicians stick to making music and quit trying to help out with fowl morality. Seriously, if I'm hungry and/or broke and there's a KFC there, I'm not worried about if the chicken I'm about to eat was yelled at by it's former owner. I'm hungry. It's fried. End of story.
I like the Beatles and the Pixies but seriously...dudes, chill. Leave this kind of annoying activity to Bono because we all hate his crap music so it's easy to just hate him too.
I would much rather flip Frank Black off.
PETA's adherents are the biggest crowd of mouthbreathing idiots on the face of the planet.They're worse than Republicans even.Anybody who thinks a chicken farm is comparable to Auschwitz needs a swift kick in the rear.
Oh,and I'll have mine Original Recipe.
Grow up..... I'm sure you think that we should strive for world peace too....
Love this. Love Frank Black.
"Anybody who thinks a chicken farm is comparable to Auschwitz needs a swift kick in the rear."
You don't have to think it's comparable to AUSCHWITZ (no person in their right mind thinks that) to think it's still a TERRIBLE THING! What the hell is wrong with thinking 'unnecessary suffering is a bad thing and should be stopped'?!?