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Kentucky Fried Colonel
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In the course of negotiations with a company like KFC—which refuses to make even minimal improvements in the lives of the billions of chickens it uses for profit—there is a time for subtlety and there’s a time for burning their corporate logo in effigy. This past week turned out to be of the latter sort. Check out the pic below from our awesome protest in Washington:
In related Colonel Sanders effigy news, I just discovered that PETA isn’t the only organization that has a longstanding KFC boycott. According to those omniscient folks over at Wikipedia, a Japanese baseball team called the Hanshin Tigers has failed to win a championship in more than 18 years due to what fans call “The Curse of the Colonel.” Apparently their run of bad luck started when a crowd of Tigers fans threw a Colonel Sanders statue into the river as part of a celebration.
So in case you’ve been looking for some more reasons to join PETA’s KFC boycott—in addition to the fact that KFC kills millions of chickens a year by boiling them to death—you can do it so that the much-maligned Hanshin Tigers can finally win the championship that has been stolen from them by a company that has nothing but contempt for animals, consumers, and Japanese baseball.
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i hope everyone joins peta in boycotting the kfc. it is a terible thing kfc is doing and this should be stoped. good job peta.
Posted by: david patrick harkin | July 16, 2007 10:49 AM
i hope everyone joins peta in boycotting the kfc. it is a terible thing kfc is doing and this should be stoped. good job peta.
Posted by: david patrick harkin | July 16, 2007 10:49 AM
I heard Peta stood for "People for the Eating of Tasty Animals".
If so, why would you burn The Colonel???? Isnt he your hero??
ALL HAIL COLONEL SANDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Germanfist | July 16, 2007 04:44 PM
how long has this boycott been going?? And kfc's keep poping up everywhere... a new one just opened 2 blocks from my house... AAOF im going there right now ^_^
Posted by: bob buker | July 17, 2007 03:37 PM
Man, I have to say that every time I see a KFC protest, I get really hungry for a bucket of the stuff. This sort of stuff just doesn't work.
Posted by: KentuckyHick | September 10, 2007 08:37 AM
I know that KFC treats chickens very badly,but,is that true in Japan too?
Posted by: Lena | January 11, 2009 12:41 AM