Mike D, AD Rock and MCA, better known as The Beastie Boys, have sent off a letter to the head of KFC, David Novak. The letter asks Novak and KFC to follow PETA's recommendations and halt the abuse that chickens raised for KFC are subjected to. Allegations include that these chickens are painfully debeakied, suffer from life-long crippling, and are scalded while still living.…
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26 - Angela Chen Shui
..always noticed the chickens being trundled here to there... looking thirsty, bedraggled, terrified... flat, low shelves overfilled, all of them squashed... Really never crossed heart or mind to say 'I don't give a damn'. Because I did.
went for years w/out chicken, but it tastes so downright good..
when will those star trekkie food materialising thingys be in every home?
27 - jeremy
beasties got conned by some woman in an airport into signing a "petition"
then PETA went and fabricated that letter as from the Beastie Boys, they never agreed to the campaign, oh and they are nominated for 3 grammies and have been in the music game for 20 years now, they are still on top of their game...
Adam Yauchs statement...
"Wow, Shit gets hectic quick. Sign a petition in an airport and next thing you know you’re a poster-boy. This shit needs some straightening out.
For the record, we did not draft this letter. Basically it went down like this; a lady was walking around an airport in Australia asking people to sign something. When she approached me I thought (and I assume that Adam and Mike did as well) that it was a petition that she was getting as many signatures on as she could. So I signed it thinking that I might be able to help out with stopping some unnecessary suffering of some birds. But I thought that my name would appear in conjunction with thousands of others.
By the look of the letter that PETA sent out, they must have scanned our signatures, photo shopped them neatly in order and then added our names typed in, so that it would look like we drafted and sent the letter ourselves.
And from all the news hits they got on this, they must have sent it out to every news outlet they could get a hold of.
The strangest part of it is that the press just printed it without checking in to see if we really wrote or sent the letter.
I’m sure PETA is well intentioned, but seriously, what the fuck? Pull your shit together. If we want to draft an open letter to someone and send it out to the media we’ll do it ourselves.
-Yauch"
28 - godoggo
The Beastie Boys! I'm damn sure they've got at least one Jew.
29 - godoggo
I'd heard about this before, just not in reference to KFC. I don't think their chickens are raised any differently than the ones you buy in the supermarket.
In the past, the attitude that we may treat animals any way we want meant that grotesquely cruel, quite frivolous animal experimentation was very common. The situation has improved because of publicity. Of course, we still test cosmetics by slowly burning away the eyeballs of little bunny rabbits, and I for one am uncomfortable with this procedure.
30 - frank
I belive, what is the big deal we all are guilty of animal cruelty.im sure PETA eats chicken and other animals.I believe if you don't agree on what kfc is doing just don't eat there.Why isn't hunting animals a big deal?That's animal cruelty.I say leave KFC alone and find something else to do on your free time.
31 - Jon
Keep in mind what we are talking about here - we're talking about chickens being dunked into "scalding water" while still alive! These chickens are being drowned alive with scalding water in their lungs. This is no joke.
There is a big deal between how KFC is producing their chickens and even if they weren't, they are a symbol for how badly chickens are treated (probably the worst treated animals on earth). The major issue is that KFC doesn't care and have done nothing to improve their procedure for raising nor killing the chickens.