Critics Don't Want Fried Chicken Ky.'s Official Picnic Food
Posted on: Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 00:00 CST
FRANKFORT, Ky. - Animal- 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 group claims KFC's chickens are abused, even tortured.
"If the state legislature moves forward with this one, then they should change Kentucky's state bird from the cardinal to the debeaked, crippled, scalded, diseased, dead chicken," said Bruce Friedrich, PETA vice president.
Source: Sunday Gazette - Mail; Charleston, W.V.
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Posted by Bill on 02/18/2008, 08:27 I think the comment from the organization's vice-president says what needs to be said concerning the organization's and his lack of intelligence. If these people had their way, we couldn't drive our cars on the road, lest we run over some animal. We couldn't have windows on our house, lest some poor bird fly into it and harm itself. We couldn't trek out into the woods, lest we step on a wormhole and crush the poor little thing to death, or traumatize a wild animal who has never before had his/her habitat invaded by a human.... |
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