Great work! I'm sure everyone on the planet will now stop eating chicken just because someone desacrated an entire graveyard.

Posted by: Maya, CVT | January 11, 2008 01:47 PM

this is amazing. i think it's a disrespectful, but at the same time, so is his company. maybe instead of disrespecting the man, we should work harder to boycot the company.

Posted by: susan | January 11, 2008 01:59 PM

Ok, Wait Matt...
Before your time comes I hope it will spell "VICTORY" all in bright colors!!

Posted by: Carla | January 11, 2008 02:11 PM

Um, that's a dumb idea, PETA. No matter how much we hate the Colonel, it doesn't seem right to bring animal rights debates (or ANY debates) to a graveyard.

Sorry, but I'm not liking this one.

Posted by: Canaduck | January 11, 2008 02:25 PM

Maya, you seem to be more concerned about the "feelings" of selfish people and criminals than you do about animal cruelty.

What exactly do YOU do for animals?

Posted by: kelly | January 11, 2008 02:34 PM

I shudder to think of where the animals would be if we were all so afraid of "offending" others.

Posted by: kelly | January 11, 2008 03:13 PM

Hey Jack...I live in Louisville and I have noticed that we now have a building with a TV in the window, running PETA videos. Is that a campaign headquarters? If so, I would love to be involved!!

Posted by: Becca | January 11, 2008 03:46 PM

This is a great idea of a courageous personality - I shall do one for myself also!

Posted by: Gianni Falcone | January 11, 2008 04:13 PM

This guy is nuts. Get him some therapy.

Posted by: Joe | January 11, 2008 04:23 PM

This is so kick ass! Well done.................!

Posted by: John Carmody | January 11, 2008 04:23 PM

I'm not sure how effective this actually is. Everyone I have talked to about it thought it was funny, and not in an educational or awareness-raising way. Wouldn't it be more effective to have an inscription that doesn't use a childish style of poetry--spelling out words with the first letters of the lines? That's the sort of thing written in grade school. It just seems to read as a joke to all but the few who already agree with Prescott and know who he is and what he does.

Tourists (if that many tourists go to a graveyard in Louisville) are likely to look at both graves but not see any deep meaning or find any real facts in the little poem.

Posted by: Ashes | January 11, 2008 04:26 PM

I'm not sure how effective this actually is. Everyone I have talked to about it thought it was funny, and not in an educational or awareness-raising way. Wouldn't it be more effective to have an inscription that doesn't use a childish style of poetry--spelling out words with the first letters of the lines? That's the sort of thing written in grade school. It just seems to read as a joke to all but the few who already agree with Prescott and know who he is and what he does.

Tourists (if that many tourists go to a graveyard in Louisville) are likely to look at both graves but not see any deep meaning or find any real facts in the little poem.

Posted by: Ashes | January 11, 2008 04:27 PM

It's really disgusting that you would put something up like this next to someone's burial plot. His family is going to visit him there and remember him as a PERSON and family member. Sure, you're allowed to not agree with KFC and their point of view, but they don't agree with yours either. You dont' see them putting up plots to cheapen any of your member's memory. Your cause might get taken more seriously if you would learn some tact and dignity.

Posted by: Bill | January 11, 2008 04:55 PM

This is low, even for PETA (not that I have ever held you in high regard). Wearing a chicken suit in a protest march in one thing, desecrating a graveyard is another.

How does it feel to not have a soul?

Posted by: Michael | January 11, 2008 05:00 PM

Hi Kelly!

Well, let's see. I cared for horses at two stables from when I was 4 until I was 16. Then in college and after I worked at several animal shelters, and was also trained to rehabilitate wildlife.

Then I became certified as a veterinary nurse and worked at that for about 5 years until I decided to go to grad school and get a master's degree in conservation biolgy.

I opened up a private cat shelter and I petsit for an elderly woman.

So by conservative estimates I've probably saved a few thousand animal lives, directly. Thanks for asking!

What do you do for a living, Kelly?

Posted by: Maya, CVT | January 11, 2008 05:01 PM

I'm not too happy about this one. It's tacky. KFC is in the wrong and it's right to publicize that, but Colonel Sanders grave? It's not going to affect HIM at all, but it could well hurt his family, and for what? Better to picket every KFC in the nation because THAT produces results.

Posted by: Susannah S | January 11, 2008 05:09 PM

This isn't supposed to bring educational awareness in the same way that a piece of literature would. This is just meant to bring awareness. Period.

You have to admit, it's different. Different gets attention.

This is meant to just provide an opening for what should become an educational conversation regarding KFC's cruelty. (Did you hear what Peta did today...)

Having this on a grave doesn't bother me one bit.

The way I see it is this. That stone is not determining a person's status in the afterlife. Neither is it causing any people that have died any discomfort. It's your stone, put on it what you want.

What does offend me is a person that died for reasons like being a druggie or an alcoholic yet he gets sweet poetic words on their stone. Or whatever criminal may be burried there and again, there are sweet poetic words on his stone. Personally, THAT seems more disturbing than somone's truths and passions etched on a stone.

This gave me an idea! When I die, I'll make sure there is something on my stone regarding animal cruelty. Being against animal cruelty has defined so much of my life and so much of my person, there is no reason why I shouln't have something on there regarding that.

Thanks for the idea!

Posted by: Jaclyn | January 11, 2008 05:18 PM

This is absolutely ridiculous! I don't agree with KFC's practices, but I seriously doubt that Colonel Sanders had planned on the company taking the turn that it did. How is it okay to desecrate a man's grave to get a point across? Not to mention the disrespect this shows for his family and the families of other REAL deceased PEOPLE buried in Cave Hill! I am all for animal rights but this is why this organization has made a reputation for itself of being made up of a bunch of lunatics!!!!!

Posted by: Lauren | January 11, 2008 05:21 PM

Becca,

Hi! My name is Lindsay Rajt and I head up our KFC Cruelty campaign and live here in Louisville. That is indeed our new KFC Cruelty Campaign HQ you saw on Bardstown Road and I'd love to get you in the loop for local actions!

There's a movie screening happening this Sunday at Ray's Monkeyhouse on Bardstown Road at 7:30 PM (Earthlings.) Please e-mail me and I'll get you on the e-mail list for all upcoming events and protests.

Thanks for all you do for animals!

Lindsay

Posted by: Lindsay Rajt | January 11, 2008 05:27 PM

This is absolutely ridiculous! I don't agree with KFC's practices, but I seriously doubt that Colonel Sanders had planned on the company taking the turn that it did. How is it okay to desecrate a man's grave to get a point across? Not to mention the disrespect this shows for his family and the families of other REAL deceased PEOPLE buried in Cave Hill! I am all for animal rights but this is why this organization has made a reputation for itself of being made up of a bunch of lunatics!!!!!

Posted by: pulpchick | January 11, 2008 05:28 PM

kelly: i completely agree with you! animals are more important than some sentimentalities concerning graveyards! torturing an animal to death is worse than anything else! there are people on this blog which i doubt if they really are for animal protection or just distracting the people - as for example welcoming antibloggers for 'enlightening' discussions!
and to Michael i want to ask: how does it feel not to have a soul? people who are insensitive towards animal cruelty have no soul! on graveyards are just dead people but in slaughterhouses are living animals which are tortured to death and this is really tragic! stop to put the things on their head - you sound like my ex-priest who once told me that it is more important to be catholic than protecting animals! in what kind of a feeling world do such people live? i think they have already their graveyard in their lifes!

Posted by: little big woman | January 11, 2008 06:15 PM

Kelly and Maya

Both of you do wonderful work for animals. You may both disagree on the graveyard issue but that's alright. The animals need you both, that really is the issue.

Posted by: Ana | January 11, 2008 06:17 PM

PETA: This is just wrong, period! Obviously, you feel Jesus is wrong for providing the fish to thousands. Well, get a LIFE!

You have your opinions, fine. Stay legal. Desecrating a grave site for this 'cause' is beyond moronic. Add to that the idiot letter from your VP to have the prisoner in TX eat only veggie meals. That is torture in and of itself. How absurd is this group 'PETA".

People
Eating
Tasty
Animals

Posted by: Robert Manery | January 11, 2008 06:25 PM

Dear PETA and Matthew Prescott,

As a citizen of the city of Louisville and an admirer of the beatiful grounds of Cave Hill cemetery where several special people from my family and friends have been laid to rest, I am disgusted by your lack of respect. The families who spend thousands of dollars to keep the grounds where their loved ones are buried have a right to peaceful and beautiful scenery, free from your propaganda. While I do not support animal cruelty, I also do not support gross disrespect for human beings or their memory.

Keep doing your work, just please have some respect. That crossed the line.

Posted by: Hollis | January 11, 2008 06:31 PM

Wow, Kelly. I've never been completely owned like that before. How does it feel? And to clear things up for you, CVT stands for Certified Veterinary Technician, meaning someone who cares for sick and wounded animals.

Posted by: Kelly got PWNED | January 11, 2008 07:04 PM

Maya,
What wonderful credentials you have! We all can learn from your great knowledge and wisdom...
Thank You...

Posted by: Holly | January 11, 2008 07:33 PM

this has to be one of the most ridiculous ideas i've ever heard... how would you like it if i went to your grave and placed a gravestone making fun of the company you worked for... this is one of the most disrespectful things i have ever seen... its one thing to protest its another to desecrate...

Posted by: Nefarian | January 11, 2008 07:36 PM

I like it.

I wouldn't worry about PeTA's soul, Michael.

I'm sure God thinks a little higher of PeTa than KFC.

Jesus was a meat eater? Let me propose something...If I'm vegan, wouldn't that make me even more compassionate than JC? Rubbish. What naysayers propose is this..The most compassionate being who (supposedly) ever lived, liked to kick back once in a while with a rack of lamb on the BBQ. Give me a break! Utter BS.

Face it people, the myth of JC and all other religious icons has been made up as it went along.

Posted by: James | January 11, 2008 08:23 PM

I agree kelly.

Colonel Sanders was a cruel man.

Posted by: K | January 11, 2008 08:29 PM

u people need to realize that keeping the population of animals down keeps the dieases down

Posted by: mikey | January 11, 2008 08:33 PM

hmm, charming vertical letters to put on a tombstone right? :/

Posted by: Caboose | January 11, 2008 08:44 PM

Michael, everyone here has a soul...and you know what?

So did all those chickens that were tortured and slaughtered , and continue to be tortured and slaughtered by KFC suppliers...

:(

Posted by: Tamara | January 11, 2008 09:03 PM

Maya, the people I work with don't petsit, or help a veterinarian who only treats the pets of people who are able to afford high fees.

We deal with animals that have been abandoned, hurt, maimed, neglected, starved, beaten EVERY SINGLE DAY

Which is why it is more than a little difficult to read the persistent postings of someone who seems to care more for the "feelings" of animal abusers and criminals.

Which is exactly what these abusers and criminals want people to be doing, so they can keep on doing what they are doing.

Posted by: kelly | January 11, 2008 11:10 PM

And I would love to see video of a 4 year old taking care of horses at two stables. That would make YouTube history:)

Posted by: kelly | January 11, 2008 11:12 PM

I think this is the ultimate statement! Great work.

Posted by: Reality | January 12, 2008 12:12 AM

Although I believe in fighting for animal cruelty, etc. When hearing this story on the news I was deeply saddened that PETA went as far as to place this in a cemetery. There are other ways to protest. We do not need to be placing things like this in an area where people go to mourn the dead. This is a low and disrespectful way of trying to seek justice.

Posted by: Melissa | January 12, 2008 12:56 AM

I don't understand why people are so upset over this. The inhabitants of the graveyard are dead and I, personally, never favor the dead (humans) over the living (animals). If living visitors are offended, maybe they will think twice about how they treat other beings on the planet while contemplating their own mortality.

Posted by: Antigone1000 | January 12, 2008 03:18 AM

Maybe this idiot will fill the cavity sooner rather than later. You people really need serious help. Get it.

Posted by: joe | January 12, 2008 06:32 AM

I think this is incredible, grave yard or not, the people against it need to walk into a barn filled with chickens and smell the smell they do 24 hours a day, then they need to be starved for a week and then hung upside down while watching the blade come and slit their throat and then to be dropped into a boiling vat of water still alive. Maybe then they will have a little compassion for the animal and not the company who does this to the animals. Great Job!

Posted by: Cynthia A. Smith | January 12, 2008 09:27 AM

I do not see what is wrong with this.

As others have said above, people should be more outraged about how the BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF LIVING chickens are being treated than how offended Colonel Sanders' family members and other gravesite visitors might feel.

I think that it makes people upset and uncomfortable because they want to remain ignorant, so they can continue to eat meat guilt-free.

The people who are standing up for animals DO have a life (that's for you Robert Manery - and you are not at all clever with your overused and unoriginal alternate version of what the acronym "PETA" could stand for), and they are trying to protect the lives of their fellow earthlings.

People should be horrified as to what is happening to earth's non-human animals and should do something about it, rather than getting upset about what is written on a gravestone.

Posted by: Michele | January 12, 2008 11:44 AM

First of all: for the thousandth time: the word 'fish' in the bible has a symbolical meaning and the twelve baskets of 'fish' and 'bread' mean the twelve tribes of Israel! Jesus wasn't a fish seller doing cheap magical tricks like making appear or disappear things or bilocation or all that bogus and it was exactly the idiots of that time who told around such shit who made him end on the cross!!! 'bread' and 'fish' are words for human qualities - like this you still can find the expression in some parts of Italy: questa persona è un pezzo di pane! This person is a piece of bread - that means 'a good person'! 'Stone' means a bad person, so when the babtist said: from all these stones God can make sons of Abraham! 'hagar' the mother of ismael means 'stone' - hagar in arabic - but later on out of that 'stone' came 'water' when she found the well 'sem-sem' and the 'stone' became a 'precious stone' giving life to a new people.......and so on! i would say this here is not a lesson in holy scriptures but there are sooooooo stupid people on-here that certain things have to be explained again and again and second i would ad that even if this PETA's action represents some provocation to some people they did a good job! sometimes only shocking people can wake them up - sooner or later! because we are also shocked by those who are killing and eating animals and they don't give a fuck! so why they are always quickly ready in accusing PETA of a fauxpas when they are committing it in continuation! there are not just animal killers and meat eaters in this world - even if they are maybe the majority - for the time being! but there shall come another time one day and they shall see that during the whole history all the great thinkers and personalities were on the same side as PETA! so i say: go PETA and i'm with you!

Posted by: Don Quijote | January 12, 2008 12:04 PM

Hi Kelly!

I'm not sure why you've become obsessed with me. Although I'm flattered, I think you are doing a disservice because your personal attacks on me really distract from PETA's mission, which is to help animals.

In any case, I feel that the only way to end your obsession with me is not respond to you.

Peace, Kelly!

Posted by: Maya, C.V.T. | January 12, 2008 12:26 PM

I APPLAUD:

KELLY
LITTLE BIG WOMAN
K
TAMARA
LINDSAY RAJT
JOHN CARMODY
CARLA

YOU PEOPLE ARE RIGHT ON AND THE BEST!

Posted by: CHEERS! | January 12, 2008 12:28 PM

Hi Ana! Hi Holly!

Thank you so much. You both are seriously two of the kindest people I've ever met. And I agree, as long as people are caring for animals, that is what's important. Many, many blessings to you!

To: kelly got PWNED - ;) Thanks, you rock! (Finally, someone who can read! LOL)

Posted by: Maya, C.V.T. | January 12, 2008 12:31 PM

living animals are more important than dead people and how many dead people are outthere on that graveyard who were unloved by other people - so to the antibloggers i'm telling this: instead of loosing more time on this blog and insulting PETA: go out and care about the living people - give them some love - not when they are on the graveyard - that's too late! and criticism is easy but it's far more difficult to make it better! so what are you waiting for? there are millions of starving people outthere waiting for some signs of love and unterstanding - go to do your job!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: highland | January 12, 2008 02:04 PM

Matthew Prescott: I love you - may GOD grant you a long blessed life! You are a really enlightened person and the words on that stone are full of love und feelings for all the living beings - not just some egoistic memories of some single relatives vanishing into a dark future! you instead are a bright shining light! this is not at all a desacration as some egoistic individuals are pretending but an inspiration for us all and for a better future for all living beings!

Posted by: Minotauros | January 12, 2008 02:12 PM

Kelly & Maya,

Kelly ~ People are going to disagree with things its part of who we are...it is what makes us work as whole..if we agreed with each other 100% of the time what a boring world this would really be..plus we would lack the ability to learn from others for we would always agree so there would be no chance for new or needed ideas.

Maya~ I can see where you felt you had to defend yourself for this was an attack on your convictions for animals, but lets not pull the what do you do for a living into it even though your devotion to living your life for animals is well respected by all...keep in mind that a homeless person can have just as much influence on the well being of an animal as anyone.. I know plenty of people that have careers that have nothing to do with animals, but do excellent work for them outside of their 9-5 jobs.

I think both of you have added excellent comments on this forum, and the animals need both of you....Animals can never have enough voices working for them. We are all headed toward the same goal so lets not turn on each other there is enough of that on the other side of the fence.

Posted by: Dana | January 12, 2008 05:22 PM

Dear Maya, Very positive responses, given with Great kindness, respect and wisdom.
Very Good,
Thank You Maya

It is true that we are working for the same cause in our own way.
Peace and Respect to all,
Holly

Posted by: Holly | January 12, 2008 05:52 PM

Kelly: I agree with you 100%. I think it is ridiculous to back down on your position because it might offend someone. That is the main reason I support PETA over any of the animal welfare groups. Unfortunately, some people need to be offended or shamed into doing the right thing. If PETA's tactics save animals lives, I consider them to be successful.

Posted by: antigone1000 | January 12, 2008 06:16 PM

Jaclyn: Right on! I don't understand how this is "low" or "disrespectful". It's to bring awareness and I don't see the big deal just because it's in a cemetery.

(Aww thanks "CHEERS!"!!! :D)

Posted by: K | January 12, 2008 06:18 PM

I read in the US News and World Report that the super of the cemetary has promised to remove the marker. We should all send emails and letters. The site was paid for and it belongs to the owner.

Posted by: Maggy Jones | January 12, 2008 08:56 PM

This is the only way to pressurize KFC to STOP torturing chickens! Great work PETA!

Posted by: Niranjan | January 12, 2008 10:12 PM

Way to go Matt! Whatever it takes.

Posted by: carol tuskan | January 12, 2008 11:57 PM

Just so that you know, fish in scripture means fish, the food. Jesus ate fish with his disciples more than once. When you consider that he was Jewish, has most likely had lamb at passover as well. While I respect your right to believe what you will, personal attacks are not only unnecessary, they undermine what you want people to know about who you are!

Posted by: wendy | January 13, 2008 01:00 AM

I love it!!! Makes me want to get a stone instead of being turned into ashes. The stuff I could write on that...that could make cemeteries 'hip' again for new generations that are not so cowardly.
As for the colonel, oh please. How many people did he in with his greasy unhealthy food?

Posted by: Andrea | January 13, 2008 02:26 AM

think the point being missed here is sometimes people on the same team have to agree to disagree when it comes to something as petty as a disagreement over an ad campaign. Just because Maya does not agree with the tactic does not mean that she will or does any less for animals...same can be said for Kelly just because she agree with it does not mean she will or will not do any less for animals or that she does not stand behind her beliefs....guess what I am getting at is this disagreement is not about standing behind your beliefs it is about personal likes & dislikes. This whole thing was posted here for us to comment on our opinion of if we liked it or not so why bash others for not agreeing...Maya did not say oh this sucks so I will not support animals anymore so what is the big deal?

Posted by: Dana | January 13, 2008 10:04 AM

This is appalling. Colonel Sanders was an excellent businessman who deserves to rest in peace. He has nothing to do with what happens at KFC anymore you morons. Just for this, I'm gonna eat at KFC every day of next week.

Posted by: James | January 13, 2008 11:27 AM

Dana what eloquent comments. I've always liked the way you expressed your views, always nicely said.

I did mention my profession only because Kelly asked me what I do for animals. Aside from being a vegetarian, most of my time helping animals has been as a shelter worker / vet nurse / wildlife person. If she had not asked, I would not have bothered.

However, I have all the respect in the world for anyone who helps animals, in fact without non-worker animals folks, the animals would sink very rapidly indeed.

She probably does not beleive it, but I have all the respect in the world for Kelly and I am very thankful for all of her rescue work.

As you said, it would be very boring if we always agreed with each other! What would we accomplish then? ;)

Posted by: Maya, C.V.T. | January 13, 2008 11:35 AM

Once again, I respectfully disagree with PETA's actions.

Here's the problem: it's not the dead people that will be upset, it's the people visiting the gravesites of their loved ones who will be.

Each person grieves in a unique way. Some people don't want to see an angry protest message in the cemetary. What if some kind person's loved one is buried next to PETA's fake tombstone?

This may be hard for many people to understand, but there is an unspoken type of sacredness some people feel about graveyards, and when people who are mourning and devestated about the loss of a loved one, something like PETA's fake tombstone can make a dark day seem even darker.

On top of that, this action is just an invitation for any organization under the sun to do the same. Pretty soon the graveyard could be riddled with fake tombstones. Not good.

Have some respect, PETA. There are a million and one ways to get your message across.

Some things should remain sacred. I'm sure if anyone buried their beloved pet and made a special symbol or marker for it, they know what I mean.

Posted by: Maya, C.V.T. | January 13, 2008 11:51 AM

As always, you people take your so called righteousness to a new LOW level. I simply can't believe you would disrespect a cemetary.

Posted by: Kevin | January 13, 2008 12:29 PM

A friend just sent me a picture of chicknens hanging upside down with blood dripping from them and they were still alive.
She sent the picture from Care 2.
It was horrific, the worst.
I say do whatever it takes.
I stand with you on this.
Judith

Posted by: Judith, Freedom Fighter for Animals | January 13, 2008 12:30 PM

I agree with Michele, Minotarus,& antigone1000: 100% perfectly stated!

Constant condemnation of tactics by members can only serve to weaken Peta with much delight to Peta opposers. Sometimes I wonder who are the actual supporters and who are the opposers!

Peta's success depends on firmly objective activists like Matt Prescott who are daring and inspirational.

Matt and the demo activists give their all. I give them all thanks and the credit that they deserve.

I give immense credit to Kelly who also goes above and beyond as she cares for animals in the most heartbreaking situations.

Michele, Minotarus, antigone1000, Kelly, the demos,& Matt Prescott have the types of insight and inner strength that makes Peta so successful!

Posted by: Angela | January 13, 2008 12:47 PM

Why wood anyone do that to any animalsand hert them. I will not go to KFC any more!

Posted by: colleen | January 13, 2008 01:55 PM

I can't say I don;t think what peta is doing isN't right and that kfc isn't in the wrong
but peta has no right to disrupt a grave and tell people their religous belliefs are wrong!!! so don't go telling people that just because your vegan doesn't Mean your better thaN jesus people back then didn't exactly know what a vegie burger is!!!!!!!!

Posted by: upeoplefreakMeoout | January 13, 2008 01:57 PM

Why would people do that to chicken. that is mean .{IAM NOT EATING CHICKEN ANY MORE.}

Posted by: colleen | January 13, 2008 02:02 PM

wendy

Your comments about the fish symbol and Jesus eating lamb are not only incorrect but inaccurate. Don Quijote explained some of it very well. The "fish" symbol is from the Greek and it does not refer to aquatic animals; that symbol also was translated various times all the way back to the language that Jesus spoke when he walked on this earth. Jesus is represented as a lamb because these lovely creatures are both docile and sweet. Please do ample research before you write such utter inadequacies and nonsense. The Romans enjoyed torturing and killing both humans and non-humans and hence the latin is when the last translation takes place. Ancient Rome is not a period in history that I look upon with kindness. These translators tried to make Jesus fit in with their excesses, and certainly reflective of such a violent and barbaric age and people. Constantine was no altar boy.

Michele and Dana

Well said I agree with both of your comments. My concern is always for the living billions of animals that are suffering and being tortured and killed as I write this comment.

PWNED
That was really a silly comment you wrote to Kelly. I have taught high school and that is something they would have said. Be respectful. Both Maya and Kelly can disagree and still be very important advocates for animals. Save your insults for animal abusers/users/killers.

Maya and Kelly

Ladies, you are both bigger than this. Both of you are very passionate about what you do for animals and I applaud you both. I know how difficult it is for all of us to cope with the brutality that our fellow non-human animals endure at the hands of our species. It saddens me that two wonderful advocates are at odds with each other. Yesterday I went to a fur demo and the hostility from the fur wearers and some of the public is just horrible. But AS ANIMAL ADVOCATES WE MUST ENDURE. Anyway, peace to both of you and please continue to fight for animals any way you can.

Posted by: Ana | January 13, 2008 03:04 PM

Hello Maya:

Thanks for your kind words!

Joy!

Posted by: Ana | January 13, 2008 03:10 PM

i can't believe that you are
wasting all this energy and time
on chickens!! OMFG we are in
a very serious situation on
much more important issues
like Mankind!! I do believe PETA
is being paid off by our corrupt
govenment to put irrelivent issues
out there to distract the ignorant
from what is real!!
GET A GRIP!!!
why not use your energy on
something like :
SAVE THE PEOPLE!!!
duh!

Posted by: jobob | January 13, 2008 03:11 PM

First of all, this is not a thread about whether "fish" is really the living kind of "fish" that swims in water or whatever in the Bible. So cut it out.

Next--

"I think it is ridiculous to back down on your position because it might offend someone.That is the main reason I support PETA over any of the animal welfare groups. Unfortunately, some people need to be offended or shamed into doing the right thing. If PETA's tactics save animals lives, I consider them to be successful."--antigone100

Thank You. I needed that.

Posted by: Tamara | January 13, 2008 04:28 PM

I admire anyone who truly believes in something enough to stand up and/or lie down for eternity speaking what he believes. Most of us try not to stand out and look wierd, most of us go along with whatever like a flock of sheep. To all you nay sayers...Since when was fighting aginst cruelty animals become a bad trait?

Posted by: jacqueline | January 13, 2008 11:29 PM

I admire anyone who truly believes in something enough to stand up and/or lie down for eternity speaking what he believes. Most of us try not to stand out and look wierd, most of us go along with whatever like a flock of sheep. To all you nay sayers...Since when was fighting aginst cruelty animals become a bad trait?

Posted by: jacqueline | January 13, 2008 11:29 PM

I find it fascinating that so many people on this blog make so many assumptions about Jesus and God ...

Slightly pretentious I believe, and a little off topic ... I think.

Posted by: Kristina | January 13, 2008 11:59 PM

im soo sick of people saying how "drastic" and "rediculous" we are. i wish everyone who says negative things about us will become a pig in the next life. that way when they are stepped on, stunned gutted alive and covered in their own shit, they will know WHY we do what we do. get over yourselves.

ingrid, run for president... lol

Posted by: peta for president.. | January 14, 2008 02:18 AM

why dont all you animal haters just shut the hell up.untill all animals are treated better,everything PETA does they do for the rights of ALL animals.go home and choke on a chicken sandwich!!

Posted by: LuAnne | January 14, 2008 11:12 AM

How is this even some kind of remote victory for animal rights? It is more of a cheap shot than anything. A lot of people that visit this site needs to flush out their brain housing groups.

Posted by: Johnny | January 14, 2008 12:06 PM

A person has a right to express his views on his tombstone, so if this is what Prescott wants to say, that's his choice. But he did it now, while he's alive and leading a fight against KFC, because he wanted to get attention.

PETA clearly believes that there's no such thing as bad press, but that's simply not true. Because of these stunts, more people are vehemently anti-PETA, and therefore unlikely to ever consider actual facts and information linked to PETA in any way. The people who like these stunts are already believers. So if you get in the news but in a way that permanently puts off the people who hear about it, what have you accomplished, really? I know people who love animals, but the more they hear about stunts from PETA, the less they want to do apart from being good to their own pet. They won't give money, spread literature, etc. because of PETA.

Posted by: Ashes | January 14, 2008 01:44 PM

wendy: jesus didn't have lamb for passover - he was the lamb! on passover he was crucified!

Posted by: nino | January 14, 2008 02:04 PM

This stone is an excellent idea! In this way the living and the dead shall always remember: there are souls gone with the sin!

Posted by: Sven Lund | January 14, 2008 02:06 PM

i love it. it almost makes me want to have a gravestone just so i can put a little reminder of my own on there and shed some light on the cause.

Posted by: marie | January 14, 2008 02:33 PM

Exactly because people are pretending that Jesus ate fish and meat he is not my master: I'm rather following Krishna - his Father - this one for sure is a Vegetarian! but of course: everyone is free to chose his own masters and idols!

Posted by: Mira Bhai | January 14, 2008 03:06 PM

omg the stuff they do to these poor chickens !
wtf !?
why did they ever do anything to you like serioulsy !?
they have a right to live as much as we do.
good job peta !!

Posted by: Caralena | January 14, 2008 03:27 PM

"Just so that you know, fish in scripture means fish, the food. Jesus ate fish with his disciples more than once. When you consider that he was Jewish, has most likely had lamb at passover as well. While I respect your right to believe what you will, personal attacks are not only unnecessary, they undermine what you want people to know about who you are!"

What does this have to do with the torturing of birds by KFC?

did Jesus torture the lambs?
I don't understand what your post has to do with anything.

I believe that this gravestone is a good point, though i don't think that it is necessary.. Did Colonel Sanders torture the chickens himself?
Why is HE the one being disrespected, rather than the company and the people working there?

Why don't we put more effort into starting protests against this sort of thing, if Colonel was alive, and you did this, then maybe it would work, but what does he have to do from the grave?

I think this is a good idea, but not a good plan.

Posted by: dev | January 14, 2008 04:30 PM

I find it interesting to read the comments by readers stating all of the horrid ideas promoted by PETA. Why read about it if you find it disrespectful or stupid? Something is catching your attention, especially if you feel the need to comment!

Posted by: humane | January 14, 2008 08:04 PM

Meat is murder!!!....and murder tastes pretty damn good!

Posted by: jim | January 14, 2008 08:18 PM

let me clear something... kelly ur right 100000000 % percent. maya is just being a show off "I dooo this... and that..." well no1 cares so Shhhh.

Posted by: animalluver | January 14, 2008 10:13 PM

This is Matt's tomb stone right? So he has a right to have whatever he wants on it. I think that it's at least a good point that even after he is gone he wants to send out the message that animal cruelty is not right. It shows his commetment to the cause.

Posted by: Katherine Westbrook | January 15, 2008 12:15 AM

Love it.
I dont think we should worry about offending a few people, when a few billion chickens are tortured by KFC every year.

Someone has to stand up for them, and if not us, then who?

Posted by: Shane | January 15, 2008 03:57 AM

I SAW THIS ON TV!!!! It is so sick what they are doing to those chickens. GO PeTA!

Posted by: Val | January 15, 2008 07:45 AM

I would just like to say that I knew nothing of this until I heard an interview on the radio with a woman named Lyndsey something from PETA. What I did hear disturbed me enough to find a way to voice it. As someone who has lost loved ones, when I go to grieve, the last thing I would want to see is some petty stab at them after they are gone from this earth. Think about his family, think about your own final resting place..I think there are much bigger enemies out there, how about taking a stand against the men and women who abuse our children, beat and/or kill spouses. I may not agree with the way animals are sometimes treated, but are they really more important than the child that is killed that did nothing wrong. I just think that alot of people have their priorities so out of balance. Leave his family and final resting place out of your fight..fight with the people who are actually doing the harm..not a dead "symbol". You can post this or not, I just felt like it needed to be said. I will not be back to this site.

Posted by: kisha | January 15, 2008 08:08 AM

Yeah man this is so kick ass !
good job

Posted by: Caralena | January 15, 2008 11:13 AM

God gave us animals to eat, that is true. He did not give us animals to torture. Read your scriptures and know the meaning before you lecture anyone on them. There is a difference between killing for the purpose of consumption, and torture.

These animals are being tortured. Go watch the videos. If you don't, then you are uninformed and have no right to make any comments here regarding the treatment of the KFC Chickens.

Well done Matt.

Sorry if anyone is offended, and I must admit, it's pretty offensive, but it's a good place to get the message across!

Posted by: Susan | January 15, 2008 11:29 AM

owned.

Posted by: ramen | January 15, 2008 02:20 PM

Personally, I think "The Colonel" would be rolling in his grave if he knew what Yum Brands has done to his company. Profits before anyone/thing.

My family and friends fully support PETA's efforts to boycott KFC, and we've taken that another step further by not supporting any Yum Brand restaurant.

Great job Matt!!!

Posted by: GrayFamily | January 15, 2008 02:52 PM

The boring ad nauseum "god gave us animals to eat" comment. So much noise. If you do believe in God then read the Bible! Genesis states very clearly that God gave man directions on what he should eat: whatever the trees bear will be your food. Blah blah, blah. If you purport to believe in God read the Bible and educate yourself. God does not condone violence; violence is a human activity. Now back to the billions of tortured and violently slaughtered chickens! Their suffering continues because of humans' taste for cadavers.

Posted by: Ana | January 15, 2008 03:59 PM

James,
Colonel Sanders got the ball rolling with his business.
And KFC is what he created.....
COLONEL SANDERS=MURDER
May his soul not rest in peace!

Posted by: Judith, Freedom Fighter for Animals | January 15, 2008 04:14 PM

Ana, as a response to your comment that God does not condone violence, have you read the Bible? The Old Testament, which you referenced in saying what God gave man to eat, contains numerous examples of God not just condoning violence but actually ordering it. In fact, God punished people who didn't kill when ordered to. Both the Old and the New Testaments contain verses about animals being eaten. The Torah contains many scriptures about which animals can be eaten. In the New Testament, God gave Peter a dream about animals that are clean to eat. I'm not saying I agree or disagree with you, I'm just cautioning you that anyone who is against meat and violence can't use the Bible as a source!

Posted by: Ashes | January 15, 2008 04:48 PM

Uhh, I don't think defacing someone's grave is gonig to help with the whole KFC situation :/ honestly, this is just one of the things that gives PETA a bad name, and makes people not want to support them. Do you think someone is gonig to see this grave and stop eating KFC because of it? No, that's no how it works :/ This is just disrespectful and upsetting for family members/relatives.

Posted by: Anonymous | January 15, 2008 08:18 PM

animalluver
And u r 10000000% right. kelly is a real trooper for animals. Maya is a trumpet for Maya~~~~a faker for animals.

Kudos to kelly!
You too Grayfamily, Shane, Judith and all the real people
Good going Matt P.and PETA!

Posted by: Animal lover 2 | January 16, 2008 12:27 AM

Another brilliant and creative way to get your message across. Kudos to you. I can't say that I always agree with PETAs methods, but I always agree with your message. Whenever someone finds out that I'm a member of PETA, they blather on about how much they dislike PETA, blah blah blah. Well, you don't have to like PETA to love animals. And the fact that so many people dislike PETA just means that the word is getting out and the work is getting done. The abolitionists were viewed as fanatics for a long time, and the people opposed to child labor were reviled by the big companies. But these activists persevered and now we look back on slavery and child labors as shameful black marks in our history. Someday, I pray, our vegan ancestors will look back on our treatment of animals as a terrible thing in the past. And if a shocking gravestone or some naked girls outside of a fashion show get us even a little bit closer to that future, then by all means, keep up the good work!

Peace,

Jenni

Posted by: Jenni | January 16, 2008 04:14 AM

I think it takes something as drastic and controversial as this to make people listen, like some else up ther ^^ said, the chickens dont get any respect so why should he.

Im not a vegetarian, i belive that a animal should be treated fairly before it dies, animals were put on earth to eat but not to be tortured. lions dont boil their prey alive before they eat it do they.. so neither should we!

Posted by: Charlotte | January 16, 2008 10:49 AM

I'd have to say this is a spineless demonstration. Where is PETA's conviction behind it's position. If PETA is right why does it have resort to sneaky little tricks?

Posted by: Mark | January 16, 2008 11:03 AM

I guess the eleventh comandment says though shall not kill animals! You keep calling it "torture" because the chickens are killed in a violent manner. Torture implies that the people doing the slaughtering are deriving pleasure from the act for their own enjoyment. Furthermore, the grave yard stunt will do more harm than good. Many of the so called "meat-eaters" are probasbly going to be church going, or God believers at the least. This means they respect the dead and Holy grounds as places of mourning and rememberance, not places of protest and childish stunts. Why couldn't you have put the headstone in front of a KFC, or the corprate headquarters? If you show no respect for others, you can expect the same to visited back on you!

Posted by: Kurt K | January 16, 2008 11:24 AM

Never really cared for KFC (chicken is fatty), but don't much appreciate people who call themselves "americans" and "christians" giving no respect to the dead.

It's the understanding if PITA members hold little regard to the dead and the "right place" to lobby their efforts, then you should all be responsible for protecting yourselves from the treats of terrorists.

It really upsets me that my nephew gave his life in the Navy for people who have no respect for the humans protecting them and hold chickens on a higher standard.

Ya'll can lobby for your "dreams" all you want, but when you bring it into memorials, you've stepped over the line of what seperates Americans from Radical terrorists. And I trust you'll understand when I bolt a toilet seat to your memorials when your time is up.

And BTW, for the freak arguing what Jesus' diet consisted of, well, if you knew anything, it was written he ate everything. But ofcourse, that logical thinking would not fit your agenda.

NOW, give me more red meat and chicken strips!

Posted by: Rob-O | January 16, 2008 06:57 PM

Kelly,

LOL Changing your name to "animllovr" so that you can support your own statement is pretty sad. And until you learn to spell, you won't be able to do much for the animal world. Sorry.

Posted by: Maya, C.V.T. | January 16, 2008 08:23 PM

Ashes: concerning the bible as a reference for animal rights i would say it's a bit complicated because people are always referring to the Pentateuch and the NT but rather prefer to forget the Prophets, specifically Isaiah, Job, Daniel and the Ecclesiastes who were clearly against animal killing and furthermore Isaiah is the one who announced the coming of the Messiah! The Messiah - Jesus Christ is continuously misunderstood - even by his own disciples, specially concerning the so-called miracles etc. but it would go too far on this blog to enter deeply into this matter and furthermore we are at the end of this blog here but according to my feeling i would say that Ana is right but she would need tooooooo much time for explanations! the horrible thing is that the most part of priests, pastors, rabbis, imams etc. are taking themselves for enlightened and are misleading their communities - for this i left the so-called 'jordanism' (like this i call the judaism, christianism and islam) and went to hinduism because there the things are very clear - also with a view on the other religions - there you have an explanation for everything and all! also the continuous quarrels between christians and muslims concerning the word 'son' of GOD! Ancient sanskrit got a special word for it 'Avatar' and all the misunderstandings are blown away!

Posted by: animalfriend | January 17, 2008 05:28 AM

Matt is so cool! I kinda love him.

Posted by: Curtis | January 17, 2008 05:51 AM

kurt k
you made some good points, but for some misunderstandings. this is not a publicity stunt. it is serious. torture is serious. and matt prescott is very very very very serious and so are we about torture. you made a good point about torture.
and there already is a commandment thou shall not kill. God didn't put a "p.s." on it saying but it's ok to kill animals.
church going or God believers are respectful to the dead?
sort of hypocritical if the same aren't respectful to the living people and animals.

Posted by: Anonymous | January 17, 2008 08:07 AM

Rob-O

I do not think it is fair for you to assume that none of us support the soldiers, and I see that you are still under the spell of the Bush Administrations great fear tactics of creating lots of fear so that he may take more control of us, and stomp on the rights listed within our constitution. So before I even think about protecting my Freedom in another country I will work on protecting it in my own country.

I think that you should be raising more h*ll over the nutcase’s that boycotts soldiers funerals for the fact that the Military allows gays to serve their country so this group of Christian Radicals thinks that the military is a disgrace to GOD.

I am torn on this one I do not know where the line should be drawn or if it even should be... Many animals have suffered at the hands of this mans company that he made a fortune from, and KFC refuses to even look into a more humane way for these animals...so if it takes the extreme measures of putting this tombstone in a grave yard to grab their attention I am behind doing what it takes to make change.

Now if you do not hear anything hear this....I do not use the Bible as my justification for my diet therefore I don’t have an agenda with the Bible at all, but let me tell you this you want to talk agenda well George W Bush said God told him to go to war now who is using GOD for an agenda??? Not one person here has said we eat vegetarian for what is within the Bible therefore we do not use it like so many hypocrites in this world as an AGENDA!!!!!!! Yes being a Christian I sought to justify why on earth Jesus, God, or any other holy figure would allow so much pain and suffering on animals that they created & allowed to feel pain...I also wonder the same of the humans of this earth Why create us only to make us suffer in such great ways???...For humans they can justify this by the promise of heaven.

Animals should NOT be harmed, beaten, and slaughtered in the name of GOD! You want to talk about Agenda what about all these people who use the words of the Bible for abuse? God is suppose to be about Peace & Love yet more violence is done in the name of God than good.

Posted by: Dana | January 17, 2008 11:24 AM

To anonymous: Thall shalt not kill refers to humans and humans only. If this wasn't the case, then it would suggest that meat eating animals killing other animals for food would be a sin. I understand where PETA members are coming from. But sometimes the arguements that are made are very oppionated. If you want to live a vegan lifestyle then go ahead, I won't say a word. But please try and understand that I believe that man has domain over animals and furthermore they are here to serve a purpose. Some we eat, others we use for companionship, some are here for work and others keep the circle of life in check. Of course I am againt any kind of unecessary killing of animals. But if we need to kill animals to feed the nation, then I see nothing wrong with. If making the lives of slaughter animals better up until the end is what you want than I am all for it.

Posted by: Kurt K | January 17, 2008 03:02 PM

In the first place, Kfc. has lousy food and saves money by only half cooking it. Col. Sanders is discovering what heat is all about as we read. Chickens are dumb, but mankind is dumber! Eat peanuts. All smart monkeys do. Leave the poopy chicks in Briteny Spears chicken house. She is the only chick that should be cooked and fed to the dogs. Sincerely lois a. loock, animal lover norco calif.

Posted by: Anonymous | January 17, 2008 07:04 PM

Great job!!!! We need to keep it up, NEVER stop, We as the voice for these voiceless creatures need to do WHATEVER it takes to bring animal abuse to an end in our lifetime!!!!!!

Posted by: Rebecca | January 17, 2008 08:45 PM

Peta, you have my support, and I admire you now more than ever!

People, I'm sure Peta realized how some might react to the tombstone thing, and they still went ahead. They are willing to take the verbal abuse for the sake of the animals, and move full steam ahead. I admire them for that. You have to be really dedicated in order to take all this abuse, and they've done it over and over again. When I die I'm leaving everything to Peta... Well hopefully I'll live for at least 50 more years, but oh well, shit happens.

Keep up the good work. This was a GREAT idea, you can never be too extreme when it comes to saving lives!! Does it really matter if you're saving human or animal lives? Remember people, humans can speak up for themselves, animals can't.

Posted by: Charmaine | January 18, 2008 06:52 AM

I don't agree with this at all. The money spent on doing this could have been spent better actually Helping the animals. The colonel is dead. its not hurting his feelings in the least. Time and money could be spent doing other things.

Posted by: lorrie vanistendael | January 18, 2008 10:12 AM

Sorry, Maya, but you are so wrong about kelly.
She has always kept her direction for and about the animals; has been one of the consistently strongest advocate on this site; and she knows what she is talking about because of her intense dedication of working with animals. kelly wouldn't bother to write anything for her support because she is not full of herself. Take notice that she didn't even respond to any of the flattery. Please don't mistake me for kelly either. I couldn't measure up.

kelly, more power to you!

Posted by: BJ | January 18, 2008 10:26 AM

There is a vast difference btw those who advocate for Animal Welfare and those who advocate for Animal Rights. AW advocates would prefer to help an animal here and there, feel good about it, but offend no one. AR advocates really envision a whole new perspective on how humans interact with animals and do not mind offending the sensibilities of some people to achieve those goals. PETA is an Animal Rights organization, not an Animal Welfare organization. So, those "animal-lovers" who think that PETA should ease up on its tactics might be better off supporting an AW group instead.

Posted by: Antigone1000 | January 18, 2008 11:07 AM

There is a vast difference btw those who advocate for Animal Welfare and those who advocate for Animal Rights. AW advocates would prefer to help an animal here and there, feel good about it, but offend no one. AR advocates really envision a whole new perspective on how humans interact with animals and do not mind offending the sensibilities of some people to achieve those goals. PETA is an Animal Rights organization, not an Animal Welfare organization. So, those "animal-lovers" who think that PETA should ease up on its tactics might be better off supporting an AW group instead.

Posted by: Antigone1000 | January 18, 2008 11:24 AM

Ashes

Genesis makes it very clear what man is to eat....that was the Garden of Eden (peace and no killing). Jews and Muslims have kosher and halal respectively. These are both violent painful deaths for the other animals condoned by both these groups. Having these directions on how to kill the other animals only follows that in the Torah and in the Quoran there will be support for these killings by the various stories of an avenging, violent god. Christ left no directions on how to kill animals. In the Old Testament God also says I don't want blood from bullocks or sheep, what He asks is for love and devotion from His creatures. The New Testament also states that the other animals give glory to God. I don't use the Bible to support my compassion for the other animals. If man continues to purport that he is a moral animal then he should behave as such. Of course, there are many versions of the Bible after Martin Luther broke away from the Catholic Church. The Catholic bible is distinctly different from the hundreds of Protestant variations.
Jainism is a religion that speaks outright of compassion for the other animals.

Posted by: Ana | January 18, 2008 04:20 PM

Antigone1000

Right on target. Animal Welfare: ASPCA, HSUS, RSPCA, MSPCA, IFAW, HSPCA, and many others too numerous to name.

Animal Rights: COMPASSION OVER KILLING, MERCY FOR ANIMALS, FRIENDS OF ANIMALS, FARM, UNITED POULTRY CONCERNS and others too numerous to name.
I am an animal rights advocate: I don't want bigger cages, I want empty cages, I don't want free-roaming slaughtered animals, I want free-roaming living animals. I want the oppression of animals to end not "softer" methods to keep them oppressed.

Posted by: Ana | January 18, 2008 04:39 PM

Grand idea, Matt! Too much fuss and bother is made of death these days, which is odd because we all have to cross the divide one day. I'm right pretty pleased the old Sanders guy is tucked up in his grave and that's for sure.

You carry on, Matt; I'm right behind you! Don't you give a tinker's fart for the negatories on this board. I wish I was as brave as you.

Posted by: Lesley Robinson | January 18, 2008 05:36 PM

Hi BJ!

No offense, but people do not "know what they're talking about" because of dedication. They know what they're talking about if they have learned the facts, read the studies and gone to university.

As I said before, I believe Kelly when she said she is an animal rescuer. Great! But then she tries to tell me I'm not allowed to disagree with any of PETA's tactics. She should try to get into Bush's cabinet with that kind of Hitler attitude.

If she believes PETA should be allowed to express their point of view, I should also be allowed to respectfully disagree with them.

If Kelly wants to then suggest that I do nothing for animals, I'll gladly list my degrees for her again. I'm a certified veterinary nurse, former shelter worker and getting a graduate degree in biology. I also run a cat shelter.

No offense to you, though, BJ - I find you perfectly respectful and intelligent.

Peace! ;)

Posted by: Maya, C.V.T. | January 18, 2008 07:11 PM

Kurt K: I appreciate that you are against violence towards animals but i don't agree with your statement that animals are just food: You shall not kill is meant for human beings towards all living beings - and Christ continued this tradition! How is it then that one of his 12 apostles baptised the ethiopian and then we have the oldest christian vegetarian community in Ethopia! Think about it!

Posted by: Radar | January 18, 2008 08:49 PM

Ana: I am also an AR advocate. I think there is a big problem with people putting down other people who try to help animals. If AW is your thing, assist AW groups, but don't criticize AR groups. I don't support AW groups because I don't share their vision but I don't condemn them because they do help some animals. Everyone should find a group they can support instead of making negative comments about a group who supports a different vision.

Posted by: Antigone1000 | January 19, 2008 03:16 AM

Maya, I'm not clear on your comment.
This is the way I see it in life. I know people employed at careers who have anywhere from a Bachelor's to a Doctorate but don't know which end is up when the time calls for it. They have experience and book smarts; but it's downright scary that they are in those careers and some are rude besides. I know people who never graduated high school and make a whole lot of sense, and have unlimited kindness. I think life's experiences are the best teachers. This is where I am not clear on your comment. Is that to say that people who go to a university are the only people who know what they are talking about and that makes them the only people capable of giving an opinion when it comes to their dedication of working with animals? Maya, I never went to a university; I never worked with animals; but I have read the facts and studies; and I love animals. Does that mean I shouldn't give my opinion about any thing anyone says? Peace

Posted by: BJ | January 19, 2008 06:49 AM

I love KFC myself the world is a cruel place so live with it, id eat people if KFC could make it taste this good! Food is food, I dont care how its made so long as it tastes so good. BUt disrespecting the bereaved is a low and cheap publicity stunt.

Posted by: Lee | January 19, 2008 11:50 AM

I can't believe some people call this "desecrating" a graveyard. It is not as if someone spraypainted on the Colonels gravestone. I think it is brilliant idea and hope that it makes people think. Too many people have no idea where their food comes from or how it is killed, processed, etc. I'm sure the other "residents" of the cemetery will undertand and even agree.

Posted by: Jamie W. | January 19, 2008 06:08 PM

Ahem...
Animals are just as important as humans. And to think all of them are being tortured like this -- I support PETA 100% of the way.
We've saved the people enough. Now it's the animals' turn. We've come up with all this medicine to save millions of lives.. and it's just causing overpopulation.
Our world was not meant for that.
So now it's the animals' turn. They deserve better. They shouldn't be treated like this.

Do whatever you can to get your point across, PETA. I support you 100% of the way, always!

--Jen

Posted by: Memory | January 20, 2008 01:34 AM

Oooooooo pardon! Desecrating the place a pile of bones lies? Think of the billions of chicken bones picked clean by jagged teeth of cromagnons...the billions of bones of creatures with souls trashed in the filthy garbage bin. That my little children IS DESECRATION~

This not a Judeo-Christian religious debate. Wake up!

Posted by: withgoddess | January 20, 2008 03:44 AM

Correcct me if I'm wrong, but some people seem to have the idea that it's not OK to put a gravestone in a cemetary that objects to animal cruelty, but it's OK to torture animals, through mistreatment or horrible living standards, and eventually kill them to serve as food to us? We've got the good end of the deal - what's left of slaughtered animals just ends up in the trash, they don't get any sort of the respectful burial they deserve!

Posted by: Dex | January 20, 2008 05:29 PM

I can't believe some of you are comparing animals to humans. When my dad used to tell me that my dog would go to heaven I used to believe that. Then I got older and wiser and understood that Jesus was created in God's image, a man! Not a cow, not a chicken, not a fish! A MAN! It is not a sin to consume animals, it is not a sin to use them for work. I don't like unnecesary torture, but I do support hunting, and slaughter for food. The day animals pray to God and understand their own mortality is the day I will not support eating them. Until then, I am not convinced! If killing animals for food is wrong why did God create carnivores?

Posted by: Kurt K | January 21, 2008 02:25 PM

BJ, Hi again!

Thank you for being civil to me. I'm serious, it's rare here on this blog.

To clarify my statement, the only reason I have a conflict with (who was it, Kelly? Now I can't even remember) or anyone is because I was attacked.

Several times I have said that I think that a few of PETA's campaigns are insensitive. I also said that if PETA's tactics make ordinary people offended, then we are not really protecting animals because it drives ordinary people away.

Someone who goes to the circus, or eats meat, or whatever, needs GENTLE encouragement in order to change their behavior, in my opinion.

So when I say this, Kelly posts a message saying that I'm a fake, not a real animal rights activist. That, BJ, is why I list the list of degrees and jobs I have. I say this because I have devoted my whole life as a professional animal caregiver and have saved thousands of lives.

Now, some people have read my comments and think I am saying that only professionals can save animals. Not at all! If Kelly or you or anyone else rescues animals, heck, they may know more through experience than licensed veterinarians!

But the ONLY reason I listed my credentials is because you don't spend 10 years as a shelter worker, wildlife rehabber, vet tech and now grad student of wildlife biology, without being devoted to animals.

So I did not list my qualifications to up myself, only to defend myself. And it's pathetic. Instead of coming up with SOLUTIONS to animal probelms, I just once again wasted ten minutes defending myself against an attack. People like Kelly are only here to divide, not to unite. I'm here to unite.

I don't give a crap what kind of experience or degree someone has. But when some ignorant jerk implies that I'm not devoted to animals, I'm prepared to bury them with scientific facts.

Peace, BJ!

Posted by: Maya, CVT | January 21, 2008 03:54 PM

I'm not sure I understand some people's comments. Just to clarify:

I think it is wrong to torture animals.

I think it is wrong to desecrate a graveyard.

How are those two things impossible to beleive at the same time? For the record, I'm not a Christian. I'm a Pagan. But my aunt and grandma are buried in a regular cemetary, and I believe that when I visit the regular cemetary to pay respects to my dead grandma and aunt, the cemetary should not be used for other purpouses.

PETA has literally billions of creative ideas they can use to protect chickens against KFC. Some people become sad when they see a graveyard used for other purpouses.

Of course protect chickens, but leave cemetaries for people to grieve the death of the ones they love.

I don't see why that's so hard to understand.

Posted by: Maya, C.V.T. | January 21, 2008 04:55 PM

ps

By the way BJ, I worked with animals without any formal schooling for a long time!

Earlier, when Kelly asked what I did for animals, I mentioned that I cared for horses from the time I was 4 until I was a teen.

Kelly basically called me a liar and said I should be forced to prove it. Well, I hope she doesn't have children because apparently she thinks that 4 year olds should sit around wetting their diapers and stay brain dead in front of a tv instead of learning about caring for animals.

So as you can see, I worked with animals for a very long time, and when I assisted the camp counselors by brushing ponies and horses, braiding manes and tails, feeding and watering, I learned great skills. I was even allowed to help clean the horses' hooves when the ferrier came, and I got to watch the vet give vaccinations.

So after 10 or so years of attending horse camp, I knew tons about caring for horses. I had no degree at all. So of course, you don't need a degree.

But if someone is going to call me a liar without even meeting me, well, I'm prepared to tell them off.

Again, BJ,I appreciate your respectful words to me! Blessings to you!

Posted by: Maya, C.V.T. | January 21, 2008 05:11 PM

Lee, people like you are clearly psychopathic.

Posted by: Michele | January 21, 2008 07:57 PM

I have to admit that the thought of so many chickens being killed is aweful. However, there is absolutely nothing PETA can do about it. PETA and the rest of you will never ever be able to change anything. Stop wasting your time.

Posted by: Mark | January 22, 2008 12:43 PM

Hey, if you think KFC kills alot of chickens. The 2.84 Billion Chinese have to eat too! And they love chicken.
Little chicken necks are snapping every second over there! We are only 300 Million people here in the U.S..

Posted by: Jake | January 22, 2008 12:57 PM

How come chickens aren't put to sleep.

Posted by: Gary Gilmore | January 22, 2008 01:12 PM

Mark,
Peta has made many accomplishments when it comes to animal suffering so why would one think that with enough persistence this will not as well turn out to be an accomplishment. Thank goodness all do not share this glass half empty attitude of “you will never change anything” for the many great things that have happened throughout history would not exist. Maybe changes do not always come fast enough, but with enough will power of the people pushing they do indeed come. Nothing is ever accomplished by the fear of failure...but instead changes are made with never give up until you succeed. Nothing worth fighting for is ever a waste of time.

Posted by: Dana | January 22, 2008 01:20 PM

Ok, let me ask again.
Can chickens be put to sleep so they are not tortured?
Wouldn't this solve the problem?

Posted by: Gary Gilmore | January 22, 2008 01:47 PM

Mark, have you taken a look at PETA's victory PAGES???? Look up the stuff on Wendy's and McDonald's regarding their victories with some fast food companies. By the way, since KFC refuses to budge, they have managed to reduce their customer base so much that they have closed many stores all over the US and Canada. Hmmm, I think the hundreds and hundres of victories listed are a pretty good example of just how much PETA and other animal rights supporters HAVE changed the lives of many, many, many animals. PETA's pressure led almost 500 cosmetics companies to abandon animal testing in the 1980s. And I can guarantee that they will never stop until all animal abuse has been eradicated.

OOOH, but I guess we all better bow down and give up just because you said so. NOT!

Posted by: Michele | January 22, 2008 02:20 PM

PETA:
Would any of you be here if it wasn't for animals. Do they provide healthcare for your grandmother? Do they pave the streets that you drive to your "paying" job on? Didn't think so. You should appreciate our human society and how it has contributed to your being.

Posted by: Anonymous | January 22, 2008 10:28 PM

Learn to appreciate what you have. Meat has provided you with life. Without it, cavemen would have been extinct.

Posted by: Jonathan | January 22, 2008 10:32 PM

Ok, point taken.
However, please answer this.
What does PETA object to:
Me eating chicken or the way the chicken has to be killed?
If it's me eating chicken then "stop wasting your time" I repeat. If it's how the chicken is killed then I agree with Gary Gilmore and PETA should show KFC how putting themn to sleep is better. I know it couldn't be how the chickens are treated because abortion of a human fetus is legal in the U.S.

Posted by: Mark | January 23, 2008 11:31 AM

Hey, Jake is right!
Chinese people love chicken and don't even care about Human rights much less Chicken Rights! Why isn't PETA fighting them? They snap more chicken necks then KFC and raise them in far worse condition. Thanks Jake! You just exposed PETA. They only attack KFC cuz they can get money from poor unexpecting vegs that have more heart than brains.

Posted by: Amber Jones | January 23, 2008 11:38 AM

I am deeply touched by this effort,
to stop killer's with no heart..
Bless you PETA....
Sincerely Sandra

Posted by: Sandra Deneault | January 23, 2008 12:12 PM

This is so awesome!
Good one PETA!

Posted by: Jack Meoff | January 23, 2008 12:31 PM

I think it's amusing how people attempt to fight in comments, but even more so that others accept this challenge. We're all here for the animals...well at least I should hope so. Anyway, I thought that this was a new and interesting idea and I like it. But in ways it's kind of iffy, where as I couldn't care less about sanders and those like him; I wonder how the relatives and loved ones of those in this cemetary will appreciate this stand. But in any case, I do support it and maybe this will finally show people that animals are not to be messed with. Because you'll pay in life, and probably in death as well.

Posted by: Kelly S. | January 23, 2008 08:20 PM

hi u show people all these videos but some people don't care they still go 2 kfc i work 4 kfc and i don't eat it we have 1 staff who tells the custorms how must salt is it it but they don't care peta needs to doing something big to get people to listin but people need to remmber we should not blame the cornel its not him who hurts the chickens its the workes peta has to do something big 2 get people off it

Posted by: luis | January 23, 2008 10:43 PM

Hey blog screener!
Looks like the last guy to post slipped one by you!
Look at his name!
JACK ME OFF???????
Sucks when someone slips one by ya huh?

Posted by: Chris | January 24, 2008 08:43 AM

wow chris, doesn't take much to amuse you! If you've read the language posted on this site you would be aware that very little is forbidden. Hey, even you get a run.

Posted by: rojo | January 24, 2008 10:30 PM

Mark,
Please notice that nobody responded about what they objected to(the eating or killing of chickens). There is no money in clearly defining exactly what they object to. As long as people keep giving them money that's all that matters. Yes, they have victory pages;however, they only target org's that have money. They are just like Jessie Jackson. There's no money in fighting China.

Posted by: Creighton | January 25, 2008 08:28 AM

Creighton: I totally don't get your point about PETA targeting organizations with money. PETA gets no money at all from anyone they target, so whether or not that entity has money is irrelevant. PETA is very clear in its philosophy--Animals are not ours to eat, wear, use for entertainment, experiment on, etc. They have their own inherent values apart from any values attributed to them by humans. THAT is why PETA objects to the mistreatment of ANY animal. As for fighting in other countries--PETA has branches in many international countries, fighting for animals. However, it is impossible for anyone to address every wrong being perpetrated. PETA addresses as much as it can.

Posted by: Anonymous | January 25, 2008 05:27 PM

I hope Colonel Sanders is rotting in hell.

Posted by: Hollie | January 28, 2008 05:16 AM

Brilliant.

Posted by: Ana | January 29, 2008 04:28 PM

Don't really get the point of fighting KFC. KFC uses chicken from the same providers as all of the other major fast food chains. While chicken is the main menu item, they still use less chicken every year than McDonalds, Burger King, OR Wendy's. That's right, less than each not all of them together.
Every time a KFC is targeted for a PETA demonstration they get an increase in business, YOU ARE GIVING THEM FREE ADVERTISING!!
If you want to target someone target the so-called cruel distributors (the film of which has been proved to be over a decade old).

Posted by: Amy | January 29, 2008 08:36 PM

I think that a lot of people obviously feel something with this subject. Me, I eat chicken, I even eat KFC.. If the law makers could put something in place that enforced the way that the animals are killed (ie in as nice a way that is possible), then I am all for it. This world needs a balance between a good economy and a good conscience. If we forced a practice that made the chicken too expensive to buy, then that won't work but I agree that something needs to be done. Stop the grabs for publicity though as it doesn't always put you in the best light. If you want to target someone, target the laws that allow them to get away with this cruelty. I am a meateater and ALWAYS will be, that's my choice. What also is my choice is to choose a takeaway meal from a restaurant that practices the 'kind' killing of animals. You (PETA) are taking credit for the many different vegetarian meals available now (which is good), so why don't you target a takeaway chain in a positive manner and try to support and market with them rather than against them. Corporations doesn't mean evil giants (always)....

Posted by: Trevor | January 29, 2008 11:05 PM

Creighton,

Please notice that the liberal "Kook" veggie addressed you as anonymous.
These PETA people are still waiting on spine doners.

Posted by: Mark | January 30, 2008 01:29 PM

Mark, don't you mean tree-hugging, granola cruncher liberal?

Not quite sure what a "spine doner" is...

Oh, and by the way, if you forget to type your name in the "Name" part of the comment box, it shows up as "Anonymous" - it does not mean that someone is deliberately trying to be anonymous. And, if they in fact specifically chose to be "Anonymous", then what is the big fucking problem??? It does not necessarily invalidate what the commenter is saying.

All of you who continue to support KFC despite knowing the horrors faced by the chickens at these slaughterhouses, are just psychopaths.

If you actually took the time to read through some of PETA's victories, you would know that they HAVE made positive comments to companies who have made significant changes to their practices that will allow factory-farmed animals to live in slightly more humane conditions than they do now (Cargill, Smithfields, and Burger King are just a few).

Amy, PETA and other animal rights groups and individuals have succeeded in shutting down many KFC "restaurants" due to their protests. Wendy's, Burger King and McDonald's realized very quickly when PETA started their boycotts (around 5 years ago) that they better make changes if they wanted to maintain their financial success. KFC (Yum! and Prizm) is a stupid company for not only refusing to make changes, but to actually LIE about it. Clearly you are clueless regarding the concept of activism - you might want to brush up on the subject before you come back to this site.

Also to those of you who continue to eat that crap, you are only increasing your chances of getting cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis and heart disease. Bon appetit!

Posted by: Michele | January 30, 2008 04:43 PM

Mark: I assume you are referring to me as the liberal kook veggie who referred to Creighton as "anonymous" when, in fact, I signed myself "anonymous" by mistake. Anyway--I take full credit for the concise, well-written post regarding PETA's beliefs.

Posted by: Antigone1000 | January 30, 2008 09:00 PM

Awesome!
That was rad.

Thanks~!

:D

Posted by: Nikki | January 31, 2008 04:21 PM

Michele, don't call me a psycopath for eating chicken! And yes, I will continue to eat "the crap" that so call it. Baked chicken is one of my favorite meals, that will not change. I don't tell you what to eat, so you should return the favor to others.

Posted by: Kurt K | February 1, 2008 11:30 AM

I think he was a horrible person for not stopping this sickening abuse towards these birds, that did nothing to deserve the abuse, but think about his family. Every time they visit his grave, they are going to be reminded of the terrible things their loved one let happen and how much other people hated him. you shouldn't disrespect the dead like you have. even if he did deserve it.

Posted by: Haylee | February 2, 2008 04:21 PM

I don't know why everyone finds this grave so offensive. This guy just wants to make a statement even after he dies. So, why does everyone have a problem with that?

Posted by: Jessie Schrubbe | February 2, 2008 09:04 PM

Bill Maher said it is better to cross the line than to never approach it. I wholeheartedly agree. Whether or not you are a vegetarian, I believe it is our responsibility to have compassion for the animals. Even if it means crossing the line. I support PETA for this reason, as well as two other societies. Chickens that are tortured while they are still ALIVE, bleeding and hanging upside down while they are still ALIVE, absolutely terrified while they are still ALIVE is sickening, saddening cruelty and that is the bottom line. Whatever we need to get the message across.

Posted by: Michelle | February 3, 2008 06:07 PM

This is ridicules! I think that animals need their rights and what KFC is doing to these chickens is not good, but if you don't like it, then you don't go and vandalize someones grave because you don't like what his company is doing. If you want results, you can go protest in front of stores, not have some idiot go and write bad things things about them IN STONE in a GRAVEYARD, that's just low. Not only is that not respectful to him, but thats just not cool for everyone else who is buried there, it's called respect for the dead...

Posted by: Sassafras | February 3, 2008 06:22 PM

He didn't deserve this! He lived in a time when it was the norm for this stuff to happen! Sanders, for all you know, was probably a great father, husband, brother, grand-father to his family and all around good man to his community. Not only does this disrespect his family, it disrespects everyone that ever knew him.
Michelle, if you live by what Bill Maher says, then don't you have your priorities straigt in the first place!

Posted by: Kurt K | February 4, 2008 04:57 PM

Sassafras: You seem to have so much respect for the dead, what about the respect for the millions of cows, pigs, sheep and chickens that die every day just to satisfy the taste buds on your tongue?

Colonel Sanders doesn't even deserve a grave, what to speak of respect. He has instigated a business that slaughters and tortures millions of living, breathing, feeling creatures EVERY DAY.

So stop being a hypocrite and learn the real meaning of respect. Next thing you know, you'll be asking us to respect Hitler's grave.

Posted by: Gar | February 4, 2008 10:38 PM

Hilter didn't have a proper grave and nobody really knows where it is! He was set on fire by some of his SS guards so his body couldn't be desecrated by the Russians! Anyway, I think Hilter and Colonel Sanders are not close to being in the same league!
That was a bad analogy!

Posted by: Kurt K | February 5, 2008 01:04 PM

Sassafras, it's not "vandalism" when the individual has had the comments engraved on his OWN gravestone!

I guess to you it is more important to respect dead people than to fight for the lives of chickens...

Posted by: Michele | February 5, 2008 01:25 PM

It is more important to respect the dead(humans)!

Posted by: Kurt K | February 5, 2008 04:08 PM

I know it may be disrespecting peoples graves but matthew has a point and he has put what he thinks of kfcs chicken cruelty it is sick because when i seen the chickens getting thrown into the wall it just looked realy shan keep going matthew www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com to see what is realy happening to those poor chickens

Posted by: Graham | February 5, 2008 04:21 PM

I don't know, it seems like its there more to be extreme, as opposed to spreadin awareness.

Posted by: NutMeg | February 6, 2008 03:36 PM

So apparently, you find it a great cause to protect the case of chickens everywhere, and hey, it's a good cause, I suppose, I can agree with that. I like chickens too, as a source of food and as friends.

And you also find it a great cause to desecrate a man's grave, if not an entire graveyard, with a revolutionary message. Well, that's also great. For you. You put a rock with dishonoring words on the graveyard.

Riddle me this; when, if ever, have you ever ruled that the chicken are also natural assets of nature? When you've got nothing to eat other than meat, wouldn't you, just to survive? People treat animals just as terrible as chickens. Kittens are caged up in rows and rows, bred up just for the sheer purpose of being sold like televisions, entertainment.

They abused chickens. Hell, they probably had fun with their bodies, workers spilling around, maybe on their break. They slaughtered them, and mass produced them as fast food. You can stick with your opinions, but mine is, well...

This was downright low. This was downright disrespectful. You just basically spit in Colonel Sanders, and all who honor him, you spit in their faces. But that's what you wanted, right?

Posted by: Joel | February 6, 2008 08:36 PM

Perhaps family members visiting sanders grave will decide they don't want to be remembered as a mass murderer, as sanders is, and do something positive for animals. Also, if this gets attention for the plight of animals, go for it.

Posted by: Anonymous | February 6, 2008 11:07 PM

Very clever! I also saw the banned KFC cruelty ads. I think they were very well done.

The concept of having people dressed in chicken costumes being tormented is genius. I thought the Crack House ad was very profound. As well as the fry ad. I think that PSAs that use horror film effects, like the ones you create, have the most impact. Good job!

Posted by: Jackie | February 7, 2008 08:46 AM

Sanders isn't remembered as a mass murderer to the overwhelming majority of this nation. Only by PETA and its members.
So doing anything that brings attention to your cause is okay! Then where do you draw the line, when can you say that is too far. The truth is, if you are willing to go this far, then there is no line and great many will be insulted because of it! You must have some respect for people!

Posted by: Kurt K | February 7, 2008 01:11 PM

hi im 13 and
i love animals very much and im a vegan,but what does PETA actually do for animals i no you show us all about the cruelty that goes on in places and the protest you do but just trying to wait for the world to listen is not enuf.I think its a brilliant organisation but how many animals do you actually free from these places of hell?? actions speak louder than words so why isnt there anything posted on the website about the animals you free from these place??

Posted by: Julie | February 7, 2008 02:22 PM

Kurt K

I do have respect for people which is why I care that they quit eating animals so their hearts can celebrate life instead of death. Also, eating animals is bad for human health and it pains me to see so many people with diet related illnesses.

As for using certain means to gain attention for animals: imagine that you are the enslaved, tortured, murdered animal and then ask yourself if you would appreciate people trying to gain attention to your plight.

Sanders was a mass murderer and this is how people should remember him. Our society needs to quit endorsing enslavement, torture and death. People need to be aware of what they are taking part in and who they are endorsing. Our relationship with animals is perverse and a true shame of humanity. The sooner we realize this, embrace it and move on the better the human condition will be as well as our health, not to mention the billions of animals we are murdering yearly.

Posted by: Anonymous | February 7, 2008 07:24 PM

Wow, you peta people are all concerend about the ethical treatment of animals, well this is by far one of the most rude and childish things i've ever seen. Oh and don't worry there are plenty of others things you people have done that are just as bad. You people display a very one-sided story and not sharing ALL of the facts. Animal meat is a very essitenial source of REAL protein, not soy which has been proven to be insufficent in many studys to muscle growth. Being an athlete i oh much of my success to the muscle building proteins found in things such as milk, and red meat. Where do you people find any information besides the info. you offer that eating animals is unhealthy??? If you ask me vegens whjo look like a twig are what i would call "unhealthy". I do not mean to be rude or mean towards your org. But i just wish you would not send out such a one-sided and bias opinion!

Posted by: Kyle | February 8, 2008 11:36 AM

the col.sucks,kfc sucks and all who think that chickens deserve this treatment suck.if it were up to me i would dig up that bastard and hang his rotting bones over the local kfc.i hope he is in hell.

Posted by: LuAnne | February 8, 2008 01:22 PM

hahah :) i like this ,, any body who disses peta up,, well i will throw a veggie burger at you :) , kfc is disgusting! and the way they treat animals is even more discusting, thats why im vegan, i love this picture,, and i dont think its disrespectful because he deservers it,

Posted by: amiee | February 8, 2008 03:00 PM

Umm, KFC is mean to chickens, not the poor dead man that opened it!! Leave him alone and start doing something with the law!

Posted by: Grcae | February 8, 2008 04:08 PM

I didn't have a chance to read everyone's comments, but enough to know that Mr. Sanders' grave was not desecrated, friends. Kelly purchased his own plot, with his own headstone and message. For me personally, a great idea. For the Sanders' family, perhaps they have enuf $$ to have buried him at home on the grounds or construct a pvt mausoleum? I assure you, his body will dis-integrate dead, just as fast as the chickens that are broken, beaten, sliced, diced, kicked and sexually assaulted by workers in his name, but while alive. Please get over the graveyard thing, it's childish and completely misses the point. And can we pul-lease leave Jesus out of this? Check out Catholic Blood Fiestas and weep.

Posted by: daytrip | February 8, 2008 04:43 PM

Dear Joel: Yes. Dear Kurt: The overwhelming majority of people are learning what folks do to animals for money. It's not just PETA and members. If you buy a chicken and it has bruises and it's thigh bone is broken, do you still want to eat it? Was it assaulted? Is that your dinner?

Posted by: daytrip | February 8, 2008 04:56 PM

I was very upset to see that my previous comment was not posted by PeTA. I guess it just goes to show you how stupid and childish you people are. I happen to be a meat-eater, and am very educated in Animal and meat Science. You all have no idea what really goes on in the world and in the livestock and food industry. I think you need some more information before you go doing things such as this. It is disrespectful and immoral.

Posted by: Cheyanne | February 8, 2008 08:30 PM

I agree with the conditions you want KFC to adhere to but this is disgustingly low. He has a family out there that are completely innocent that are being taunted everytime they go to mourn their family member. Have some respect for them at least. They have the right to visit his grave without abuse. Secondly could I also point out that Colonal Sanders made the recipe, he has nothing to do with the welfare of chickens today, he's dead, there's nothing he can do about it, and you're not making a point to him you're just causing distress for his family. You've sunk to very low levels for what could have been a worth while campaign I would never support a group that shows such a lack of respect.

Posted by: Anonymous | February 9, 2008 08:38 AM

I really think that this is quite disgusting.
I'd rather not go to my friend's grave and chance upon a joke tombstone. The last thing I'd want to do was laugh.
People go to graveyards to grieve, they don't go there to support Kentucky Fried Cruelty. Sorry, but there are much better ways you can go about informing people about the terrible things KFC's supplier is doing to its chickens.
It's for a great cause, don't get me wrong - but again, people might get offended by the methods used to get the message across. In this case, I know I would. You just don't make fun of death.

Posted by: Sarah | February 9, 2008 08:45 AM

Can I also point out I'm a meat eater and completely healthy, every vegetarian I know takes pills to stay healthy! If you lived in days before material possession and science where we can mass produce such products to give you the vital sources you lack from eating no meat, you would now be dead. And you claim your way of living is the natural one? I agree with treating animals with respect and humanely but please don't publish lies. Have you ever seen a wild chicken? How about a wild sheep...no me either.

Posted by: Anonymous | February 9, 2008 08:52 AM

Cheyanne, before you call PETA childish and stupid for allegedly not posting your comments - if you read through the hundreds of comments above, you will realize that this blog has comments FOR AND AGAINST animal rights. Take a chill pill - sometimes the software that runs this blog is not perfect (computers are not infallible you know) and may miss a comment or two - due to technology, not because someone is trying to prevent you from saying your piece. Get a grip!

Posted by: Michele | February 9, 2008 10:18 AM

i agree very much with Cheyanne, what you people are showing is a very select few places where this kind of (which i agree is not right) behavior is shown. Most farmers care very much for their animals, because the animals make them there money. True there are a few people in the world who need to be kept away from animals, but i myself believe that there is nothing wrong with eating animals. Guess what its the way of the world! Is it wrong for a bear to eat a deer, no its not! The number of wild animals has dramtically increased, thanks to hunters. Sportsman have done more to help animals then PETA has. Also in MOST cases, farm animals are put down in the most painless way possible.

Posted by: Kyle | February 9, 2008 06:28 PM

PETA, I would have gone along with your beliefs if you would have taken another avenue. That is truely sad.

Posted by: Cheryl | February 9, 2008 08:47 PM

How were chickens killed in the old days? Remember where the saying "running around like a chicken with its head cut off" came from. Maybe you should concentrate on CRUELTY TO PEOPLE. Like all the innocent children that die every day from abuse. The animals are bred to be killed. Children are not. HELLO

Posted by: Cheryl | February 9, 2008 09:07 PM

brilliant!

Posted by: Anonymous | February 9, 2008 11:02 PM

Well whoever is against this and says it's disrespectful are full of crap because it was the Colonels Companion don't you find that even a little specific that it says KFC TORTURES CHICKENS?
Well what if I come to one of those businesses and rule with an Iron Fist and torture the ones that torture the chickens,That last part I said was just a joke but still Peta has been petitioning for years I don't know if there's anything that can stop them from this point, Their still at it so I don't think anything is going to happen unless we think of something more to help the cause...
There's not much action taking place for how long we have been trying to stop them.
I say we need to think of more ideas for the cause and take more action and look into more situations simple as that...

Posted by: Jeff | February 10, 2008 12:24 AM

You know I bet alot of the members of the PETA don't know really alot of stuff that is made from chickens. I worked at Perdue Farm for serval years. I can understand about killing animals and they need to be protected. Perdue Farm kills about 1.3 millions chickens a week and can't keep up with there flok. Perdue Chickens are given antibotiac's that humans take. Which I do think is wrong because if you catch something from Perdue chicken it takes longer for you to get better because all most all the time since that bird was given them antibotics and then you take them to get better it won't work because the bird has been treated with it and it has adapted. But I do belivile in eating chicken Tyson chicken. Trust me Tyson is not as bad as Perdue. If you think about it chicken would not survive in this world without humans they are not able to. So in other work factorys like Tyson, Perdue, and Pilgram are keeping the chicken bird in this world. This is going to gross most people out LOL even the members PETA because I know you were it. Did you know that red lip stick is made mostly out of chicken blood? Chicken blood is also included in alot of other things. Perdue does not care about the envirment. Want to know how I lost my job there. I stopped 20,000 Gallons of chicken water water from going into Kentucky green river. They told me not to go into the building but I did to stop the water from going into the river and lost my job because I did not do what they told me. And I would not change a thing I would do it again. So don't get on Tyson so much they care more than Perdue. Did you also know that I think it was in one of the perdue plants north east gulf is dumping thousand and thousand of chicken waster water into the ocean? I could write a book for the things that Perdue Farm does that hurts our envirment. And yes I was in the enviromental/waste water department at perdue. But I'm not going to go into any more detail. Check your ckicken packs make sure it doesn't say perdue on it anywhere. I have done walk though's of the Perdue plant and found magits under the processing and chiller machines that they failed to clean and get out. Instead they hide it the magits under machines so USDA won't see them.

Posted by: Ben | February 10, 2008 01:31 AM

daytrip, so that would mean if you wanted to boycott something I was doing it wouldn't be disrespectful if you bought the plot of land next to my house and put all sorts of "Andy is terrible" propaganda?

Posted by: Andy | February 10, 2008 02:00 AM

How does this "desecrate" a graveyeard? How does this "cheapen" the life of the "Colonel"? It says nothing about the man, and if those who visit him cannot separate the two, then he probably earned it. Go screw.

Posted by: J.A.U. | February 10, 2008 03:06 AM

I honestly think, that this has to be the greatest thing I've ever seen. More things like this need to be done to gain more public attention, though I do agree the acrostic style poetry wasn't as age appropriate for most of the people that would need to read it to understand it, and it also makes the point harder to get across. But, good work none the less. And, on a side note to those that think this is desecrating a grave... do your homework. He bought his own burial plot, headstone, and everything else involved. Don't try to bash on the man for doing what he feels is right.

Posted by: Kenny | February 10, 2008 06:27 AM

i think the elderly have the best comment for this one: "young, dumb, and full of ___". that must take a really big person to kick someone while they are down (literally speaking in this sense). isn't that called a 'bully'. way to go PETA! bring out your true colors.

on a serious note, i can agree with your cause, but why bring yourself to a level that no one respects you or what you are doing. kind of self-destructive and defeating the purpose isn't it? next time, just take a step back so that you can take two steps forward.

matt, i hope this wasn't your plan to get a violent thrust into politics, because i fear this one will haunt you forever. (yes, pun was intended)

Posted by: ucanthvit | February 10, 2008 12:27 PM

I have to comment on the idiocy of some of the comments. Farm animals are put down in the most painless way possible? You've got to be kidding me. Ok, if you're talking about a small family farm, I couldn't agree with you more. But we're talking about huge corporate farms and slaughter houses that don't give 2 shits about these animals. They want to get them killed so they can make their cash as soon as possible. Do u really think that feeding the animals steroids and antibiotics is ok? How about the living conditions. Have you ever seen a chicken farm with 20,000 chickens in it? This is not painless. This is suffering just so we can go out and buy a big bucket of greasy, crap that should never even be considered food in the first place. It's tainted with carelessness, indifference and cruelty. When I listen to some of your comments, I'm ashamed to say that we are all part of the same species. And no, it's not wrong to eat meat. It's wrong to support the corporations that don't give a shit about the animals or the humans' health. I 100% believe that the people that actually work to sell these chickens would never put that crap in their own mouths because they know. I've spoken to chicken farmers and do you want to know where they get their chicken from? Not their own farm. They go down the road to get organic, local chicken that has had a good life and was killed humanely. You may say ignorance is bliss, but I really don't see any blissful people eating KFC. All those people are huge, flatulent and disgusting. Nobody in their right mind should be supporting this business. It's just wrong. They don't care about you. IF you get sick from eating fast food your whole life, they're just gonna turn around and say that it was your fault and that you knew the dangers of this food before you got sick. And you know what, they would be right. But they still got your money didn't they? And to the people who don't believe that vegetarianism is right or natural. Maybe we are all naturally omnivores, but if you count how many people eat meat 3-6 times or more a day, we need vegetarians in this world to balance that out. If they feel that what they are doing is right, leave them the hell alone. Are they hurting you? No, so grow up and live your own life. Do you people really believe that man created chickens and sheep? I'm sure that a long time ago, there were all these wild animals. They didn't need humans to survive then, we've just taken them for ourselves and it's been so long, that of course you never see wild chickens. There all in tiny little cages getting fattened up for your pleasure. And really that's all that matters right. Our pleasure. Some people really have to open their eyes to the big picture. If the industry that serves us food didn't try to maximize their profits by committing these insanely cruel acts, then we wouldn't have to feel guilty about eating meat. And most of us would be omnivores. But until then, don't expect to change our minds.

Posted by: Anonymous | February 10, 2008 01:17 PM

Kyle, I would bet that you are unable to provide links to all of the "facts" that you spewed out - because PETA and other organizations have already provided factual information to dispute everything you have said. Even the USDA provides percentages of animals in factory farms - the little old roadside farms are very much a tiny minority of farming operations. Most farming operations are HUGE, without any real "farmers" involved - it's all machinery, and the goal is to kill as many animals as possible in the fastest possible amount of time. This means shortcuts, this means animals are often killed while still conscious, and this means that "inspections" are a complete joke. You should read "Slaughterhouse" by Gail Eisnitz if you want more graphic detail. You must be a hunter if you believe the crap you have repeated about hunters doing more for animals than PETA.

Cheryl, once again some anti-PETA person is now proclaiming that we should focus on helping humans. Would you tell Mothers Against Drunk Driving to focus on cancer prevention? Would you tell the Heart and Stroke Foundation to study addictions? Would you tell Amnesty International to work on animal rights? NO!

PETA IS AN ANIMAL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION!!!! PETA's goals are to help ANIMALS!!!!

Posted by: Anonymous | February 11, 2008 11:41 AM

PETA, you're wasting your time!

What has PETA done besides portray themselves as fanatical vegetarians?!

Confucious asks: Does PETA really make the world a better place?

Posted by: James | February 11, 2008 02:11 PM

You do realize that the man is not in charge of current practices in the slaughtering of chickens? I mean, to disrespect somebodies grave like this is reprehensible. How does it help chickens by making your organization look like a rabble of disrespectful lunatics

Posted by: Dee | February 11, 2008 04:00 PM

Who gives a damn if it was 'disrespectful'? That was the whole point: this asshole is single-handedly responsible for the disrespectful murder of millions of chickens. 'He's not in charge presently?'... he initiated this entire death-camp. I'd have taken this further in some crass manner, but the approach featured here displayed wit, grace and eloquence! Well done sir!

Posted by: One bloody angry chicken amongst many! | February 11, 2008 05:56 PM

ok, well 1st of all do i really need to provide a link to show the facts i talk about.....look at the fda suggestions for a healthy diet....you the big pyramid, guess what buddy, meat and dairy is on there.....you people thinking that meat and dairy products are unhealthy makes sense, lol u know y? studies have shown that lack of meat slows down the bodies ability to construct brains cells, so a lot of this makes sense, sorry i dont have the time to provide a link, just ask anyone with a biology major! has 4 hunters doing more, lol well yes its true im sorry, hunters have constructed and paid for the construction of many acres of habit for animals, they also reintroduced many species back into parts of the country, this seems to be a stupid argument that will never end, but it drives me wild to here some of the ignorant things u people come up with!

Posted by: Kyle | February 11, 2008 10:31 PM

ok people...if you disagree with PETA then why do you waste your time even coming to the site and commenting on the issue...... neways....i dont agree or disagree with this..its whatever its his right to voice his opinion right? people have gravestones personalized all the time right? so why is it so wrong to have that put on it?hmmmmm? its not such a big deal! so get over it.
~peace

Posted by: cryss | February 11, 2008 11:07 PM

A person should be remembered by the way they lived. I think it is reasonable to apply this headstone. He should not get respect dead or alive. PETA gets their message across again!

Posted by: Jennifer | February 12, 2008 10:35 AM

PETA is awsome I think that they should acaully go to school's and teach some of the older grades about this. But hey, it's just a suggestion.

Posted by: Alexsandra | February 12, 2008 06:21 PM

Animal haters - just keep killing them and one day they will all be gone and when that happens we will be gone too. You don't have to eat meat to survive people.
Peta you rock - thank you for protecting chickens and all animals which cannot speak. Karma will get those who abuse and kill.
Canada loves Peta ..........

Posted by: Canada | February 12, 2008 06:30 PM

I think it's fine. It just goes to show that even in death a person is not forgiven for heinous acts (or enabling them).
Don't listen to the others. If they have a heart, if they truly have a heart- they are all vegetarians and convincing others to do the same. The issue here is not disrespecting a deceased man whose acts are not worthy of respect. The issue is that the majority of people who claim to be pro-life think it only applies to unborn humans - when it's life all the way across the board. If there's room for this pathetic contradiction, I think you can rest assured that their comments don't even hold water.

Posted by: Dani | February 12, 2008 06:44 PM

Truely, this is appalling. He started a buisness to make money, not to torture chickens, or whatever. The reason chickens are being "tortured" is because the workers are not being trained to kill chickens properly. If they did it right, the chicken's head would be off, and dead in seconds. That's the proce you pay for tasty, tasty chicken meat. I for one, love meat. Meat is murder? Murder is defined by me as the intentional killing of another sentient being. Are chickens sentient? They have not shown sentience in a way we can understand. So why does any of this matter? And as for Anonymous, "celebrate life"? The ethical treatment of HUMANS would allow far more people to celebrate life. PETA supports a dog homeless shelter that gives dogs TVs, feather beds, and high quality food. Can you find even ONE homeless shelter that does that? I don't believe you can. And I suspect that this will not be posted, because it dares to disagree. Good night, and I wish you a good life. All of you.

Posted by: Charlie | February 12, 2008 09:01 PM

Kyle, if you want to be taken seriously, don't talk like you are a text-messaging teen.

And the whole "hunters have done more for animals" bullshit? You will not convince anyone here with half a brain! Of course hunters have "constructed" habitats and "reintroduced" species - so they can turn around and KILL the animals! There is absolutely no altruism here! Have you not thought about how species have been endangered or eradicated in the first place?????? HUMANS interfering with nature - for example, killing animals for pleasure and clothing, and DESTROYING habitats to clear land for cattle...

Oh, and regarding dietary recommendations, the American Dietetic Association and the Dietitians of Canada have put forth the following position: "appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases".

Posted by: Michele | February 12, 2008 10:53 PM

hi! i'm agree with you! kfc is a real cruelty!!

Posted by: ginette | February 13, 2008 08:45 PM

Kyle, not eating meat doesn't kill brain cells, and who said eating it's unhealthy?
(Also I agree with PETA)

Posted by: Meepers | February 13, 2008 09:18 PM

Come on you guys, it's not like someone went out and wrote it on Sanders' grave. THAT would be desecration. As it stands, a gentleman is expressing his belief on a stone where he may actually be buried someday, who knows. I eat meat, but I do not condone unnecessary cruelty to animals, livestock or not. On another note, most chicken houses near where I live are employing illegal Mexican workers and paying them under the table below minimum wage. If any of you has ever taken a look at a Mexican news stand, violence and cruelty are right there on page one for all to see. When you desensitize an entire population to such attrocities, see what you get? There is something in the whole violent movies = violent people thing, it's just not as cut and dry as all that.

Posted by: amanda | February 14, 2008 02:46 PM

I think the point that people who disagree with this are is trying to make is where does it stop. If you do this to one person's grave, whats going to stop you from doing it to another and another after that. Since many of you see nothing wrong with this, whats going to stop anybody from buying a plot next to someone they didn't like in life and mocking them. Next thing you know our grave yards will be full of headstones that are there for the sole purpose of protest. Is this the kind of trend we want to start?
I'm sure I could dig up dirt on everybody I don't like, but out of respect for there family I would never use it against that person after he died.
To you people that think this is acceptable, how would you feel if someone who didn't intend to burried by your relative, bought a plot next to your relative and put a derogatory haeadstone down. You would think this to be less acceptable I'm sure. In the end, for every one person that thinks this is a good way to get "the message" across, times that by ten fold and you get the amount of people who will be disgusted by this.
That is not a very constructive way of turning people to your cause!

Posted by: Kurt K | February 15, 2008 11:01 AM

Kurt, if people do not want to work towards ending animal abuse (by boycotting circuses, products tested on animals, fur/wool/etc, or eating meat) simply because they do not agree with PETA's "tactics", then they aren't very compassionate people in the first place, are they? If they were truly compassionate, they would help animals despite disagreeing with PETA's methods of getting the message out about animal abuse.

Posted by: Michele | February 15, 2008 04:56 PM

I'm not understanding why you think the headstone is derogatory. I've read it over and over again and I see nothing derogatory on it at all. It also is not mocking Harland Sanders and it's definitely not desecrating an entire graveyard!! It's simply stating something that Matthew Prescott beleived in. Seriously, why are these people getting so upset? Why can't they find something better to complain about?

Posted by: Anonymous | February 15, 2008 06:32 PM

Perfect! And no this isn't disrespectful. He and his company are the ones that are.

Posted by: Amy | February 18, 2008 02:34 AM

What are the statistics... 85 million chickens a year? or 850? Unless there are millions of people buried in that cemetery, I think this one is more than justified... Not that I completely blame the Colonel - but where is a cemetery honouring the millions of dead chickens at the end of every year?

Posted by: Fri | February 19, 2008 04:00 PM

i wish the slaughter and harm to all animals to stop i wish there was just peace in the world and noone killing anything or anyone.

Posted by: samantha | February 19, 2008 05:08 PM

I was going to post my initial gut reaction to the comments I viewed but realized that the PETA folks and anti-PETA folks are very emotionally involved and whatever I said was likely to be viewed as one-sided. I’m a person who loves the world of animals, eats veggies, pasta, white and red meat, occasionally hunts for what I call the “right reasons of totally using every part of the animal” and has saved more animals than I ever took. Listening to some of the extreme views on either side is honestly scary. Some of you abhor violence, but fail to realize its part of our world. I know this side of society, and to see some folks say they just want peace is nice, but very wishful thinking. Others glorify the idea that every moving thing, barring man, must be hunted, skinned and grilled. It’s funny, in a sad way, to see so much effort put towards the skewed extremes of an idea. I applaud the goals of those who stand up against the suffering of weaker individuals - animals included. I also recognize that a lot of very caring animal lovers are environmentally focused, carnivorous and non-carnivorous people. Viewing this comment site almost seems like a fifth-grade yelling match with spots of intelligent commentary thrown in here and there. So go ahead, misconstrue and alter the idea of the above, PETA and Anti-PETA alike.

PETA-supporters: I don’t like animals being abused or tortured any more than I like the idea of not being able to eat meat. My action is to take in abused animals, stop needless trapping or encourage the natural way of hunting when the whole animal is used and not the senseless practice of shooting to “make the shot” or just to have certain parts of the meat. Recognize that not every hunter or outdoorsperson is anti-animal - don’t judge the camo too harshly.

Anti-PETA people, realize that a lot of the people who are involved in this program have the guts to protect those who can’t protect themselves. Give ‘em a break - there are a lot of harmful companies operating in the U.S. and abroad who don’t care about their impact on animals. People like PETA are needed.

Posted by: Joe O'Connor | February 21, 2008 12:00 AM

Hi, I live near the cemetary here in Louisville(Baxter Ave.). I went to go see it and it wasn't there. What gives?

Posted by: Gary Gilmore | February 21, 2008 01:42 PM

omg this is fantastic well done peta how cool its about time some did something out of the ordinary to make them sit up and take notice!

Posted by: kalib | February 21, 2008 05:34 PM

I am an average 20 year old, I like a laugh, a like to have fun clubbing, and of course, I like a decent take out now and then (especially on a friday night when no one cooks). The images I have seen on the kfccruelty website was gut churning. To think, I have been allowing my two year old daughter consume something produced in such a low standards, urinated upon and just pure negligence and cruelty to such significant creature. I like chicken, as does the next non vegetarian, but not when produced in such a degrading fashion. Well done PETA, your work in uncovering these mishaps are amazing. Carry on the good work, and i hope in the future, it will eventually get you somewhere. You have made a healthy eater of me!
Oh, and I do think that the tomb stone may be a little immature, but it is hitting and very true, so if that is the way to go, do it, people in the past have done a lot worse, make a stand!

Posted by: seamus | February 21, 2008 05:41 PM

Maya,
I noticed you have only saved the lives of animals not destined for the food chain. How can you make that distinction? You either want to help animals from horrible suffering or you don't. I have work in Philadelphia and have seen more acts of cruelty to animals by the hands of people than you can image. I am not in the fields playing with horses or petting cats. One thing I know for a fact is that we are really behind on protecting animals from cruelty. Look up your local laws. I bet you won't find punishments that fit the crime. Microwaved cats, baked puppies, screwdrivers in vaginas, superglue in the eyes, drowning, electrocution, gun shots, stab wounds, burns, arrows, poison, broken bones, head trauma do I need to continue? If we allow the abuses to continue beyond the cat and dog, how will we ever stop cruelty on farms and in labs? As far as PETA goes, sometimes you need to shout to be heard.

Posted by: Stephanie CVT, VTS (ECC) | February 21, 2008 07:12 PM

Great job Matthew and Peta. I can't stand KFC and my family has not eaten the food since I heard about the cruelty over a year ago. You know what? We don't miss eating the greasy stuff at all.

Posted by: Maria | February 21, 2008 10:25 PM

Joe O'Conner,

Your comment is the best one yet. What is still not answered is why anyone should respect what's important to them when they don't show respect for what they know is important to others. My father's grave is 20ft. to the right of where the headstone was and Matthew Prescott's plot that remains.
I know and understand the arguement PETA is making, but it is disrespectful to me. If the headstone would have remained, I would have had to walk past it to get to my father's grave (Joseph Daniel Jennings 1937-1999). Just by showing your lack of respect for my father or my family, please explain to me why I should respect your cause.

Posted by: Jacob Jennings | February 22, 2008 12:49 PM

if you aren't here for animal rights leave this site, nobody reads the remarks you make, if the person who made kfc was such a great person, he would have made the fried chikin from soy. its not good food any ways, grease is bad for you

Posted by: erica | February 22, 2008 02:21 PM

Hi Stephanie! Nice to meet a fellow CVT! ;)

First of all, I apologize but you must please remind me of what I said - what distinction are you referring to? I don't think I ever said that animals should not be rescued from the food chain. Please clarify - or were you responding to someone else's comment?

Also, I actually have treated farm animals / "meat" animals, so it seems your assumption is incorrect. As a CVT I gave medical care to cows, pigs and goats. I saw, heard and smelled the evil that goes on with a badly run farm, and I did in fact always protest and try to end abuses there.

I am currently earning a master's degree in conservation biology, so I'm not merely petting cats, as you say, and I wonder why you make my past work sound so useless.

The cats I've rescued have suffered from frostbite, deafness from earmites, feline AIDS, leukemia, abuse and neglect. I don't compare which animals are cuter than others; I simply put my specific experience to its best use.

In any case, I'm happy to answer your question, if you could please clarify which comment of mine you were referring to.

Thanks. ;)

Posted by: Maya, C.V.T. | February 24, 2008 06:17 PM

Alright, this stuff has been bugging me for so long. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but, KFC isn't the one actually killing the chickens or "torturing" them. The ones doing so are the providers of KFC, KFC just recieves the chicken, prepares it, and sells it. Notihng more. Erica, aren't we technically all here for animal rights? We're all debating one thing. Animal rights. Amazing little concept, isn't it?

Posted by: Evan | February 24, 2008 06:23 PM

yes, but kfc does BUY the chicken, and im sure that if they really did give a rat's ass about animal rights and the way their providers treated them, they'd quit buying and find someone else. i mean, its not like the company's in the dark about the whole thing. i just sent them an e-mail and i know its not the first they've recieved.they know. and thats what pisses ME off

Posted by: payton | February 25, 2008 08:13 PM

Alright, I think this is fabulous! The things KFC supports in there working conditions in unbarable. I think that "disrespecting" this graveyard really gets the point across. If KFC doesn't stop this cruelty, then PETA will do everything in it's power to make everyone a part of KFC from restaraunts to graveyards know that what they are doing is NOT OKAY!

GO PETA!

Posted by: Allye | May 12, 2008 02:34 PM

i hate kfc thay are evil people and torherors and should die in hell i hate them thay are so evil and i hope thay stop it or i will throw them in to a wall and jump on them and kik there ass and i would kill all the people who are involved i hope i find them cose we i do i will kik them drop them in to bolling worter and put them throw all the pan those chikens got i am soooooooooooooooooooooooooo angry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: travis | May 12, 2008 02:59 PM

I agree with most comments. PETA you are awesome and all we appreciate you boycotting gayhole KFC but this targets the dead who can't do anything about it rather than the company and its present owner itself.
I dont think the conditions for the chickens were AS disgustingly cruel when Colonel sanders owned kfc as the conditions are today.
I think people won't really take it seriously anyway.
I much prefer banners, posters and movies.
You need to target the right audience and people.
THe colonel has passed and he cant do anything about it now.

Posted by: Tilini | May 13, 2008 12:29 AM

That Was Sort Of A Bad Thing To Do PETA. I Know You All Hate Him But He Still Deserves To Have "Atleast" One Person Remember Him With Love. And That Grave Isn't Helping. I Know If I Was His Grandchild Or Something, I Would Be In Shock If I Saw That Next To His Grave. Oh And In Some Cases, You Can Go To Jail For Doing That.

Posted by: Caitlyn B---- | May 13, 2008 09:22 AM

If the colonel should be listed with other mass murderers like Hitler, why shouldn't a "tribute" be made near his gravesite, remembering all the pain & suffering he caused/symbolizes? How many lives of another species did he send to an early grave after a short life of immense cruelty? Gravestones are a signpost to a legacy.

Posted by: John C | May 13, 2008 09:05 PM

I like it.

I support anyones right to put on there tombstone anything they want.

Posted by: Jim | May 13, 2008 09:35 PM

how childish!!! really i thought it was tyson who supplied to kfc .and why his grave????i maen the guys dead its not like he knows his company (or tysons) is cruel to chickens!!!!i mean this really ticks me off guys.◘◘◘

Posted by: zola | May 14, 2008 03:33 PM

I don't eat meat, and am a huge supporter of animal rights. But this is just making a negative statement against peta. It's come to a point when I say I support what they do, no one will even listen to my points because it's not even about helping animals anymore, it's more about drama.
A few years ago my friend was a huge backer to peta, which got me interested, and after much research I became very disturbed by what I myself was doing, eating meat, using products that use animal testing. Since then I quit both. I think protesting is one thing, because it's obvious that many things need to change. But the way we protest isn't helping the cause..at all.
This won't make a point to people and make them want to respect animals more, or see the cruelty in the livestock industry, but just make them think all peta supporters are insane.

In the end I don't see this working in anything but a negative way. Shame too, since something really needs to be done about the food industry besides a big show and thriving for attention. it's turned from a organization that truly cares about animals, to a bunch of people that like to make a big statement and freak people out. I'll stand with a sign all day, I'll sit outside kfc all night protesting, but there is a point where you need to decided if this will help, or hurt your cause.

Posted by: Tabby | May 14, 2008 09:16 PM

I used to eat their products but, NEVEREMORE!

Posted by: James H. | May 15, 2008 12:15 PM

Wow...So much time, money and energy wasted on desecrating the dead...How much more impact could you have made with that money and time if put towards issues to really help fight the battle you are wanting to fight. So sharp in some areas, so dull in others!

Posted by: Brad | May 15, 2008 12:42 PM

can they do what perdue does.they listen to music?

Posted by: faina silber | May 15, 2008 07:11 PM

wow kfc fuckin sucks

Posted by: person | May 16, 2008 04:04 PM

I think this is positively brill! Who cares whether or not some people find it disrespectful?! I can tell you that a whole lot of people are going to change their mind about dinner tonight because of this. Awesome Job!

Posted by: Allison | May 16, 2008 07:23 PM

We are not trying to get people to stop eating chicken.I have several friends who still eat meat and I am able to associate peafully with them. We are trying to stop the horrible abuse that goes on in places like this.I understand humans have been eating animals for a long time but that doesn't mean they deserve to go like that.

Posted by: Sam | May 18, 2008 08:31 AM

If we don't do something...Who will? KFC needs to parish for thee harm it has done to these animals. What I don't get is how the workers of KFC can sleep at night knowing that this is happening and if they even know.

Posted by: Jasmine | May 18, 2008 01:03 PM

Very good.

But,are you sure Sanders tortured the chickens,too?

What if it all started when he died?

He could have been a good guy,and then you have to vandalize his grave.

That's not right.

Posted by: Marissa | May 19, 2008 10:16 AM

ok anyone who believes that this was disrespectful is ignorant and naive. it doesnt matter what you do to his grave, he is BURNING in HELL either way!!!!

love,
kris

Posted by: kristin | May 19, 2008 05:08 PM

hey.. look.. when sanders was alive... it was a long time ago... and KFC wasn't worldwide.. what makes him the devil(well thats kinda how you treat him)

Posted by: 1ke | May 19, 2008 11:10 PM

From the video that I watched about how they treat those poorchickens this seems to be the best idead I've seen. Just because of this gravestone people might come to their sense and stop eating chicken from KFC.

Posted by: Yaya | May 20, 2008 07:39 AM

Wow. Way to disrespect the dead. I think you should prolly focus on getting the company to stop being cruel to their chickens rather than vandalising the gravesite of a guy who sold the company 44 years ago.

Posted by: Ian | May 21, 2008 12:05 PM

This is why PETA is criticized. I'm a vegan and all for PETA, but this is sick. We should not let anger get in the way of what is right and wrong.

Posted by: Y. Mendelsohn | May 21, 2008 03:29 PM

BRAVO - I LOVE the new ads. They will bring this campaign to the younger generation who are still eating at KFC and who are not likely to pay attention to the old campaigns. Brilliant tactics PETA.......

Posted by: Kim Johnston | May 22, 2008 02:32 PM

Um, that's a dumb idea, PETA. No matter how much we hate the Colonel, it doesn't seem right to bring animal rights debates (or ANY debates) to a graveyard.

Sorry, but I'm not liking this one.

Posted by: Rebecca Gaspard | May 22, 2008 02:58 PM

bravo on this one now everyone will remember cononol for WHO HE REALLY IS and i feel very sad for those who disagree

Posted by: holly | May 22, 2008 04:11 PM

yeah im sure that the max who started KFC didnt tell all his workers to treat the chickens like this. its the workers and companies of today.

Posted by: Megan | May 22, 2008 05:17 PM

yes it is horrible whats happening to these chickens but im sure that way more than half the dedicated buyers of KFC go to the Colonel's grave or will be impacted by "KFC tortures chickens"

Posted by: Megan | May 22, 2008 05:22 PM

Point of logic to all the people who disagree with the gravestone. Col. Sanders isn't being disrespected personally - KFC is!!! He's dead, he did great things or whatever. Fine. Now, if you want want to say that KFC now is a reflection of Col. Sanders and therefore this is disrespectful to him, then you would logically have to agree that all the abominable things his company does are disrespectful to him. So if anyone cares about him, his family's feelings, reputation, etc. they need to decide if KFC really matters or not now. If it does, they need to do something about what the company is doing. If not, then let this fellow make his statement against the now KFC, because it isn't disrespecting anyone but the company. Do you follow?

But you can't whine and say that criticizing KFC is disrespectful to the Col. but the way the company runs today isn't. That's called hypocrisy. Ever heard that term? Look it up!

And don't give me some garbage about how it's on his gravestone. Well, we can all run ads on TV about the Col. and put on the Internet and it can/will be seen by family, etc.

Graves are a waste of space and animals could be living happy lives there and people should be cremated anyway. Why do we need to take up so much space when we're long gone anyway? That's arrogant.

Last, not least, I'm sure the gravestone would be happily altered or taken away if some results were achieved with KFC. So what's wrong with putting on a little pressure now? No permanent damage is done - except to all the chickens and workers who have the misfortune of working in such disgusting, mind-numbing conditions.

Cheers!

Posted by: Lar | May 22, 2008 07:45 PM

Well, I'm personally agree with the idea of doing EVERYTHING posible to get attention about what's really happening in this world to animals. People here talk about respect, or justice to this man... but DON'T ASK TO THE VOICE OF VICTIMS SAY "good morning sr" TO WHO IS KILLING THE ONES WITH NO VOICE(respect has nothing to do with this). You wouldn't say it to the jews if they do it in name of Hitler, do you? Animals, Jews, human, etc. We are all alive, cruelty is painfully for all of us.

Posted by: Yi | May 22, 2008 08:32 PM

I'm pretty disgusted by this idea and i'll just leave it at that.

Posted by: Tad | May 22, 2008 09:09 PM

wow.. not cool at all.. its never right to desacrate the dead no matter what he did during his life i can imagine how his family must feel

Posted by: allen | May 22, 2008 10:00 PM

You know what I think? I think the good Col. is speaking from the grave!!! He chose Matt as his rep on earth and he wants Matt to make his voice heard - right from the grave (or right next to it at least). And the good Col. is saying "Look at what the company I founded is doing in my name! Somebody do something about it!"

If you don't buy that and are offended, then you must think the gravestone and Col. Sanders are at odds.

And if this is true, then you accept the Col. and his people would defend KFC's practices.

And if that's true, then the Col. and his family deserve every bit of derision and disrespect we should dish out to perpetrators of disgusting crimes against animals (and people).

Really, ask yourself this: If your life's work was creating a happy, wholesome, family service establishment that became a commercial abomination after your death, would you really mind someone putting some commentary about the company's current terrible near your gravestone? I wouldn't! I'd say put up a sign and video right over my grave!!! Anybody who visits me can see that I don't approve of what's going on! I would consider that a defense of the GOOD legacy I left behind. I would want people to get mad! I would want people to defend my legacy! I would be protesting from the grave! Now how many people can pull that off?

Posted by: Lar | May 23, 2008 11:48 AM

aw men, those poor little thing..

Posted by: Joanna | May 30, 2008 04:40 AM

I am not saying that we stop eating chickens its just that we need to give theme a beter life. Oh Yeah and P.S. I hate Kfcruelty i am spreadind the wprd out to school

Posted by: flower | June 1, 2008 11:54 AM

Let me just say, PETA Is a great Organization. But you do the stupidest things, hypocrite things to get your messages across. You talk about helping us respect animals , when you just disrespected an old man. Your actions are becoming more and more childish as the day goes by. First, you use sex appeal in a veggy campaign (Disrespecting women), Then you write some crap poem on an old mans grave (Disrespecting the dead). Do you think this will bring out any message? Do you think people will listen to you if you act like a bunch of crack pipe smoking teenagers? Maybe if you put up a serious campaign then animal abuse would stop. I personally hate animal abusers. I think they should all get the same treatment. But who am i to say what they deserve? I dont know them. They could have troubled pasts . Did you go into that PETA? Im going to ask a question to end off this mega rant . How can you respect any other species when you barely respect your own?

Posted by: Someone | June 1, 2008 09:56 PM

thats some bullshit! thats a fake.

Posted by: Thomas Miller | June 2, 2008 09:54 AM

I WOULD HAVE NEVER EVEN KNOWN ABOUT THIS BUT I UNDERSTAND THE NEED TO GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT THE TORTURING BUT ON THE MANS GRAVE STONE THATS JUST RIDICULOUS HAVE SOME RESPECT

Posted by: fred | June 3, 2008 01:55 PM

PETA i know that you want kfc to stop toutring chickens but that that is abusing the colonel when he was alive he wanted to make kentucky fried chicken not torture them! dont blame that guy blame the company!!

Posted by: colton | June 3, 2008 03:16 PM

Maya, sweetie, I don't think you get it. First off, this is not about stopping eating chicken, it's about not eating from KFC. and second, I'm pretty sure peta knows that this won't stop the kfc chicken scandal, this is just another sign of protest, ok?

Posted by: cookie | June 4, 2008 03:32 PM

O.K... I know that torturing chickens is wrong and cruel, but sheesh... COLONEL SANDERS IS DEAD!! Don't blame the man! It is horrible that they treat chickens this way, but God(or whoever you believe in) gave us reign over all of the animals. I understand both points, PETA should try to find a more humane way of slaughtering chickens instead of trying ot make KFC look bad

Posted by: Kaitie | June 7, 2008 06:08 PM

is that really how you guys try to get positive attention? being mean to a dead person? smaart.

Posted by: Rachele | June 9, 2008 07:49 PM

HAVE A HEART AND JOIN PETA!!!! You humans(against PETA,of course) must not have a heart, a heart is a soul, and if every creature has a soul, humans would be a lot nicer. Humans are the errand-doers of the devil!!! Those of you who resist sin are applauded.
P.S. Go Romans! The best kind of torture is human torture!

Posted by: Michelle,not Michele | June 11, 2008 09:33 PM

well i dont know if they are really disrespecting the man. But this and Horse slaughter is wow. These animals cannot speak for themselves so we must be their voices. yes im only 13

Posted by: Hehe | June 13, 2008 11:26 PM

Don't you think it would serve a greater good to put the money that is being thrown into this "Kentucky Fried Cruelty" campaign into a organic/sustainable farming fund? Hell, use it to provide state shelters for the homeless. That is (or needs to be) a larger concern than animal cruelty at this point.

Posted by: Blake | June 14, 2008 12:34 AM

This is a great idea. Good job Peta. For the people who disagree with this idk what your problem is. The living animals that were tortured becausee of Colonal are way more important. Colonal died without torture so its our right to torture him in his past life. Again great job Peta. I would do something like this Im not afraid to go to jail for the rights of animals

Posted by: Amanda | June 19, 2008 06:53 PM

I say that this is a perfect way to be remembered and for the campaign to be remembered. When I go to a graveyard, I always like to look at some of the head stones and read what they say. The author did a great job with this poem and it will sure stand out, hopefully forever.

Posted by: Megan age15 | June 20, 2008 12:25 AM

everyone likes a piece of fake chicken now and then right?!! Nobody is forcing anyone, the chicken is not free, you have to pay for it right?!! so no matter what you guys do it is impossible to stop this and you all know it! You could like try selling some veggies online trying to reach the successful level Kentucky Fried Chicken has.

Cheers~!

cheers~!

Posted by: falcon | June 20, 2008 02:25 PM

Okay, while I love the idea. I think you went a little to far with putting that in a graveyard (especially when your not dead yet) While it is /your plot/, it is still in a place that is supposed to be the final resting placing of many other people, and i guarentee that not all of them would have liked that. Great idea, prolly the wrong time.

Posted by: Rory | June 25, 2008 11:16 PM

Hey!

I work at a KFC!
Although I live in Australia and not the US so I don't think that the same kind of cruelty goes on here.
And for the part about drugging the birds to give them bigger breasts/ribs?
Bullshit.
The breasts and ribs at my store are jack small! Sometimes the legs / thighs are the biggest parts.
Seriously people, don't go around supporting PETA if you haven't experienced the animal cruelty first hand. All you've done is watch a small length video on the internet.
Get a life.

Posted by: Michael | June 26, 2008 06:57 AM

This is not right. What KFC stood for and what it has become is a far cry from the humble company Colonel Sanders started. He does not deserve to be disrespected. If you want to disrespect someone, go after the CEO Gregg Dedrick. Leave the colonel alone. It's easy and pathetic to pick on someone dead. What a great way to not gain the respect and attention from an average meat eating consumer that this campaign may deserve. You have lost one supporter in me for sure.

Posted by: Justin Porter | June 26, 2008 08:22 AM

Come on people. Get off this whole "Disrespecting the dead, and families who visit the dead." First of all...if they don't like it...don't read it. Second of all, how about spending a little more time worrying about the blatant disrespect that is going on for the living. Seriously? People need to quit being so damn sensitive about non-important issues, and start putting some sensitivity into issues that matter. It's a graveyard. If it takes making a headstone to lose your support for PETA in their quest for getting people's attention to stop animal cruelty, then they didn't really have your support whole heartedly in the first place. I would think that something more major like seeing the "small length video" on the internet would outrage you more. Yeah...it is just one video....of many....and there are SO many more that we DON'T have. Just because it's not a small video on the internet...doesn't mean it's not happening. How would you know what KFC stood for? Did you work at their slaughter houses back then? How do we know this didn't happen then? The point is....don't badger the meaning of the protest just because you're wierdly outraged by a gravestone. Use your passion and respect for something else. Like PETA is. If it gets attention...negative or not...it got your attention...and that was the whole point. Animals do not have a voice...and I don't really think that the gravestone was a mere attack on the Colonel himself, but more an attempt to get the attention of the company itself and the people who keep that company in business. Someone with a brain ought to know the difference.

Posted by: Jeany | June 30, 2008 07:28 PM

well you know thats pointless blame a dead guy, id blame 2 things.

1. the consumers for demanding more of this type of food source.

2. the people who are running the business NOW not THEN.

Think it through, its called supply and demand, the more ppl want the more that is supplied, so protest by atacking someone that cant hit back and blame it on the values of a past age.

But remember you wont change a thing unless you change the minds of the people who consume this product AKA America.

Posted by: maraduke | July 3, 2008 06:25 PM

Kay, so I can present a good arguemennt
Everyone has there opinion
Nobody should be offended by my opinion
To me, it seems, KFC stinks
Understand?
Can you see where this is going?
Kenneth Williams, a friend, says he hates kfc
You definately get my meaning
For I am probably making my message clearer
Reality is harsh
I know it is
Everyone agrees
Do you?
Can you honestly say KFC treats chickens with respect?
Really?
Unless you are mental, you'd disagree
Everyone give me your opinion
Let me know how you feel
Talk to me and I will listen
You can make it clearer

Posted by: Olivia Kate Hall | July 6, 2008 04:03 PM

the truth is that all this is a nonsense as osea can say that if KFC chicken that comes in the video is a person who acts as a chicken and pretends that the strike and with some sound effects make it sound beatings.
but all this is a nonsense please do not be fooled by what is not, haganme case and see.
I hope that good and I understand that it's not bad with you just wanted to let them know what is the truth.
but that if you do not matter to these videos showing what it is not. just wanted to say that. good thanks for listening and understanding.

Posted by: mary | July 7, 2008 02:50 PM

Wow. Thats really sick. Who would do that to someone's grave. No matter what you guys do animals are always going to be killed for food. Thats why their here. Stop wasting all the time, money and energy trying to save animals and start trying to save the human race. I'm going to enjoy all the 12 pieces of the bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken bowl that I get.

I love you Colonel Sanders. You were a great man. You made your country proud by filling our tummies with tasty useless chickens that don't pay bills : D

Posted by: AnimalEater | July 12, 2008 10:22 AM

THIS IS SO WRONG

im am for animal rights and strongly support KfC Crueltly and PETA but i dont think they should bring it to a graveyard. Go talk to people about it try to save the poor inicent chickens but y on earth would you put that next to someones grave. Colonials family wants to remember him as a good person not evil. im only 13 amd i realize this so wrong. keep protesting but dont take it this far!!!!!

Posted by: Alex | July 14, 2008 02:50 PM

Hi.
I havent read all the comments on here yet, but I know Ive already read about 10 about God and meateaters. Me being vegetarian and stuff I get plenty of comments on my Christianity and about how God put animals on this earth to be consumed and used for us. I believe that he did put animals on this earth to be used and eaten or sacraficed, but now its just too much. Im sure he never planned people to make factory farms and kill animals the way we do now. So I just want to say to the people who think Christians should eat meat and dairy because of their religion, I might eat animals or dairy if they werent so cruely killed. I think most animals on factory farms think pain and death is all life is. It shouldnt be that way.

Posted by: Sami | July 16, 2008 12:50 PM

First of all, I am totally against any kind of cruelty to animals. I worked in a chicken processing plant in my early twenties, so have seen first hand what goes on there. Needless to say, I do not eat chicken.

However, I think this was really low of Matt and PETA. I have a family member buried in this cemetery. I find it very disrespectful to not only Colonel Sanders and his family, but to all those buried there and their families. I go there to grieve and remember my loved one, not to be disrespected.

Why are you going after the middle man anyway? Why not go directly after the chicken plants???

Posted by: Tracy | July 22, 2008 11:16 AM

Uh.. that wasn't a smart move.

Posted by: Manda | July 23, 2008 03:07 PM

At Kuwait, they don't slaughter and torture chickens,only those retarded people at the american KFCs do it.

Posted by: Fawaz | July 27, 2008 05:51 AM

BaHaHa... thats what that jerk and his family gets!! and this isnt neaarly as bad as what KFC does to those poor chickens so quit saying that this was disrespectful

Posted by: Morgan | August 2, 2008 02:30 PM

I had no idea chickens were treated like that by KFC. The videos shocked me. Thanks for making them public and for all your efforts. I will stop eating at KFC. Daniel, Romania.

Posted by: Daniel | August 3, 2008 07:19 AM

well since this guy has not died yet there is still time to acheive the goal of humane treatment to chickens ment for food if kfc or it shareholders are scared of this stone they should realise it will not go away if he dies with out activeing the goal so they should do something about it before he dies because then his wishes cant be changed

i have worked for kfc (resterant level) in the uk myself (tricon yum! brands and the other name they have changed while i been working there)
and i would like to point out that staff are treated badly and some legal working rights are ignored like unintreupted breaks for ONE example

so kfc does dont just abuse chickens they abuse their resturant staff too

Posted by: dodge | August 6, 2008 11:41 AM

and since i live in the uk the tales on animal cruelty are also local here too so i say that international awareness is needed not just awareness in the uk or usa but globaly is needed as i will also refer again to my past expeiences working for kfc (uk) that the staff are not treated well ethier i am now gonna list the whole list of grevence i have with the company when i was a resturant employee:

breech of working time reguations includeing
uninterupted breaks
contract breach of minumum working hours for full time staff
store level sexual harrassment of both sexes by managemnt teams
breatch of privacy when disclosing stressing situations out side of work with managemnet to the whole store
non payment of wages when working after 12am("becuase we are not efficent egnoth at cleaning the store after close" said by district managers when store closes at 11:30 pm)
allowing bullying of staff no punishments where handed out to the bullys
very little staff to maintain the legal food safety laws and run the store

so before you start going on about that i have worked for them understand that kfc is burning the candle at both ends and treats both animals and human staff badly
the reliefing thing is i am being treated by the local mental heath service for my mental heath problems caused by working for the company at resturant level where as the chickens dont get that chance to be treated for thier stress and phycotic episodes

so be aware that kfc is a comany that SLIGHTY discrimantes between staff and the food they serve

i hope the graveyard campain goes well for you i totally understand that as people we have rights that must by law be carryied out when we perish

Posted by: dodge | August 6, 2008 12:10 PM

Well, I am a vegan and the reason I do this is because of the animals' lives. But you're picturing Cel. Sanders as being Mr. Evil, I can't agree with that. He actually just started a company, just like every restaurant who cooks meat, and it happened to be succesful. Actually, he has a very beautiful story of life, someone old enough to retire that couldn't contain the entrepeneur inside himself.

Attacking people and organizations this way, actually doesn't do any good about veganism image on the world. It's a biased kind of marketing, which is something that people might find funny, but don't bring any awareness about anything.

Above everything, you shouldn't protect the animal's disrespecting human life. As a marketing professional, I feel it just ain't right

Posted by: imp | August 7, 2008 08:53 AM

hey everybody! KFC is mad and disgusting! i refuse to eat it! colonel sanders needs to rot in hell for what he did! im glad he died screw him!!!! you guys know it is wrong! you know it the chickens are so friendly and DO NOT deserved to be treated that way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tayler Arnold | August 10, 2008 09:40 PM

I really dont think they have the right to do that in a graveyard maby a billboard or in the magazine but not there. If you really think about it. But im not a veggie but I do absolutly do not eat KFC or fast food places. I now eat more fruit and veggies like on the grill very tastey. Trust me I love chickens and birds and animals period! I have a rooster,two chickens,a cockatiel,2 lovebirds,and two cats.thanks for your time

Posted by: Chicken Lover | August 18, 2008 01:39 AM

I think this is GREAT! yea its at a grave but oh well it got attention did it not? n overall thats what it was meant to do! Good message! n im glad there are still ppl willing to stand up for what they believe in no matter the backlash!

Posted by: amanda | August 29, 2008 12:51 AM

I am a 16-year-old Chinese girl .In China ,few people know that KFC's chicken processing process, I hope that PETA can also advertise in China. KFC is very terrible.
能不能发中文？？

Posted by: qinjunxuan | September 15, 2008 11:37 AM

awesomeeeeee! too funny! a little disrespectful but wayyyyyyyy funnier!!!! keep up the good work!!!

Posted by: olivia | September 16, 2008 02:48 PM

It's very clever, but you didn't have to put it in bright red letters, subtelty would have been more effective.

Posted by: Joseph | September 28, 2008 11:33 AM

cool

Posted by: alex | September 28, 2008 02:25 PM

Im 15 and im proud to say im a vegetarian. At first i thought it was disrespectful to do something like that but the best way to get attention for a cause is to do something dramatic. I still dont think that its the best way to show and teach others about cruelty...but atleast your doing something about it unlike others on here who just complain about what should be done but doing nothing themeselves. GREAT JOB PETA!

Posted by: Christina | September 30, 2008 10:19 PM

PETA do this for a reason, they werent getting through by playing nice, so it's time to be disrespectful. They gotta do what they gotta do.

Posted by: John Grogan | October 2, 2008 06:21 PM

Whats done is done, and i for one agree with Matt. Hopefully the grieving will leave them vulnerable and after seeing this headstone, maybe, just maybe, they will look into it. By the way, for all of you don't think PETA really makes a difference or affects anyone's lives, I became vegan about a year ago because of a certain cruel video showing a sick cow that was beaten, starving, dehydrated, abused on so many levels, dripping with puss, and finally after hours of literally rotting to death, ground up for meat. Not only did I become vegan, my husband did too, and my daughter, 6 months at the time, has never eaten meat or dairy. I have also convinced over 30 friends and relatives to stop eating meat, just by having them visit PETA's website. I don't know if it is natural or not to eat meat but I do know that almost every practice in raising and killing these animals is not natural and I DO NOT support it. I would say to someone who thinks it's strange to not eat meat, I find it just as strange that some people I have talked about this with don't eat spinach, or okra, or even soy. There are health definciences in people who eat meat as well as those who don't, and I know that my 18 month old daughter is one of the healthiest babies I have ever seen. Props to PETA and Matt for doing whatever it takes to raise questions in this unnatural way of life!

Posted by: veggieface | October 14, 2008 11:05 PM

For those who don't understand the relationship from Colonel Sanders to abused chickens... think about it. He creates a chain of restaraunts that sell hundreds of pounds of chicken a day. Where do you think these places get their chicken? From the same factory farms that promote this cruel behavior and are involved in dispicable acts. Most of the KFC lovers won't believe me but I promise you this is true, on the boxes of chicken that KFC uses it actually says, and I quote "hormonally-injected chicken". I am not joking. My sister-in-law worked there recently, and she said it actually says that on the box. Is that really the kind of chicken we are supposed to be eating? Do you really think that the Colonel had that in mind? His family should do something about it if they are upset about a little gravestone ruining his "good" name, which is being tarnished by the second. Do people really believe that this is more natural than not eating meat at all?! I don't.

Posted by: veggieface | October 14, 2008 11:17 PM

you all are attacking the wrong ppl..

first of all its free will if i wanna be vegetarian or not.. so PLS STOOOP TRYING TO FORCE PPL..

second of all the colonel (RIP) created all this ages ago and im sure he never intended to torture chickens.. and plus he created the secret recipe (for all u chicken lovers), god bless him ;)

third of all the grave advertisment is definately below the belt.. who whould wanna be visiting someone who died in a war, or had cancer,or got killed in a natural disaster, or got murdered.. and happen to view this crap?? im not there to learn about KFC or Durex or whatever u advertisers could think of..im there to mourn a lost human.. take ur advertisment to a PET F'ING semmetary...

fourth of all.. wheres the government on all of this?? (the right ppl to be attacked)are they too busy making sure other countires and nations arent being violated and tortured??... or is that all just a cover up for buisness under the table (talkin about "helping" other countries)

last and not least.. a life is a life.. there should be a law on how to treat it(no matter what it is) but lets not tell ppl not to eat it because some ass is treating it wrong..

Posted by: Moe | October 16, 2008 03:47 AM

I see you frustration towards
kfc, it is beyond disgusting and cruel. But as ghandi once said "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." If we want peace for these animals we have to approach things in a well manner, because we aren't cruel.
This isn't right to disrespect him, especially at a graveyard, he's dead theres not much than man can do anymore, if anything we should focus on spreading the word about kfc out there than to go to low extents.

P.s I'm not asking for any dumb remarks to my opinion it is MY OPINION &I'm not changing it, so calm down.

If you can't handle opinions than don't read em simple as that.

Posted by: Iman | October 16, 2008 08:25 PM

if i put my phone next to someone else's it's not really defacing, and just the same if you put your grave next to another's you can put whatever you want on it, it's yours. i don't consider it defacing, plus the guy's dead, why is he going to care? i just think it's a cool stunt that won't really teach anything, after all. people don't learn if you don't show them blood and guts, it's a sad thing. i for one wonder why i even care anymore, sometimes everything seems so meaningless.

Posted by: Mohamed Hussein | October 19, 2008 04:04 AM

Takes brains for most of these people who don't live on farms but you all make a big deal about a bird that basically is food on your plate or on the shelf in a grocery store.Like the old saying is livestock is dead stock!!!

Posted by: Sheldon Heatherington | October 19, 2008 09:36 PM

Some people are taking this way too seriously. If that dude wants to put that on his gravestone that's completely his choice. It's not disrespectful to other mourners as they probably won't even see the stone anyway. PETA is doing a great job, and if groups like them backed down to all the haters, we would still be living in the past, with black slaves and other horrible things.

Posted by: Jordan Young | October 21, 2008 01:38 PM

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Posted by: redragon | October 23, 2008 03:25 PM

meat r growse

Posted by: Anonymous | November 2, 2008 06:46 PM

This rocks. Taking his mission to the grave. Betcha when they stop torturing birds, the Colonel will turn in his grave. Keep it up, Matt!

Posted by: Mae | November 10, 2008 02:36 PM

ok, there are sooo many comments on here i'm not really sure if it's worth saying anything, and i admit i did not read through them all, so if someone else has already made my points please disregard this post! :} anyways,

in my personal opinion, i think think the move of the grave marker was ingenious simply because of all of the attention. regardless of whether you approve or disapprove of the stone, you have to admit it got your attention. i do believe, however, that whoever said to picket all of the restaurants in the country was right, that would be much more effective.

as for removing the stone, that would be a step backwards in freedom of speech, no matter how disrespectful anyone may find it.

as for the biblical argument, god put animals on the earth for us to eat. (some animals anyways. i still think not eating pork is a good idea but the new testament allows it.) in this day and age we can get nutrition without eating meat so if you want to do that, its cool. but there still is the population control issue. i dont think that trying to control the population is the greatest idea, but u have to admit that when there are too many of one animal it can ruin the population of other animals.

however, if you DO eat meat or control the population or whatever, it should always be humane. i do not mean this in the most loose sense of the word. AT LEAST HAVE THE DECENCY TO LET THEM PASS PEACEFULLY! SOUL OR NO SOUL NO CREATURE DESERVES PAIN!!!! so next time you think about burning the ants with a microscope, think about all the murders in the world and realize ur a murderer too. :c

well you are all entitled to your own opinions and if you dont agree with mine attack the opinion not the person. lets all be civil.

thanks!!!
-the worlds longest post!

Posted by: Erica | November 21, 2008 10:44 PM

DUED! Not cool. Not cool AT ALL! Just because they torture chicens dosent mean you should put that on his GRAVE! Maybe it wasnt his intention to do this. I mean, I dont like how they torture chickens but STILL! JEEZ!

Posted by: Daniela | November 22, 2008 04:40 PM

i hate any type of creulty and this basically explains colonel sanders

Posted by: haley | November 28, 2008 04:33 PM

Poor birds, they were friendly! KFC workers have to take actions of what PETA gives them. This cuelty must stop!

Posted by: bb | November 29, 2008 07:04 PM

I think we are forgetting the purpose we hate KFC, because of the modern cruelty of today not of Colonel Sanders time.

Posted by: Kevin | December 4, 2008 04:34 PM

I think that this is a good idea. People say that it is disrespectful and shall hurt members of the deceased families feelings but I don't think that the Colonel Sanders though of the feelings of the animals that were tortured to make his companies food. Well done Matt.

Posted by: Katie | December 21, 2008 12:46 PM

Thank you, PETA.

Once again you remind me why I am fully supportive of any Soylent Green program.

Posted by: Brandon | December 28, 2008 07:27 PM

I feel that a chicken is my relative to me on this greatly shared earth. That chicken has a right like me to live in a peace and grow old and die naturally. Raise a family and maybe naturally be someones supper if ones chooses to. I don't eat animals and I don't want them to eat me. So let the stone stay by the colonel to give some of those thought on how this fried chicken millionaire got rich off a receipe to abuse chickens and sell them to uncaring or unaware customers/consumers. I hope you all do not come back as a chicken and end up hanging and dipped alive in boiling water. It would be a twilight zone moment. Wouldn't.?

Posted by: mr vegan | January 8, 2009 06:59 AM

I totally agree. Sanders was an evil totally wicked man. PETA had the right 2 totally do that to his grave marker. Mayb if enuf ppl read it and understand what it means KFC will b finished. I hope so bcuz i HATE that resutruant and it needs to go out of business ONCE and FOR ALL! I also would like to point out to all the haters that its completely ur POV but what if sum1 treated u like that? Put urself in the chicken's shoes(in this case feet) and then say what u feel.

Posted by: Ashley Young | January 10, 2009 07:50 PM

I'm all for animal rights, but how would PETA feel if someone put something disrespectful about PETA on their parents' graves? I bet the Colonel had no intention of abusing chickens the way they are today. I mean, back then, people were more humane than they are now. I think more people would appreciate PETA if they were more respectful.

Posted by: Missy | January 19, 2009 09:03 AM

I gotta say, this is quite the statement. I like it...
I'd do the same darn thing in a heartbeat. Props to PETA and to Matt. It's not like they are expecting everyone to Paint a grave... come on people everyone expresses themselves differently, there isn't anything wrong with this from my point of view, but others may feel otherwise and that's great. But, we all agree on one thing. Givng animals life.

Posted by: USMC Chick | February 2, 2009 04:00 PM

Mikey, killing animals is one thing, but torturing them is another. Torturing isn't necessary whatsoever in keeping the population of animals down

Posted by: moonglow | February 28, 2009 03:29 PM

That grave for the stupid chicken murder is AWESOME!! I mean what you did to that grave was cruel but as least not as cruel as what KFC does to there chickens!!!!!!!!! = )

Posted by: Hardy1404 | March 23, 2009 06:22 PM

Desecrating a grave is a bit over the top. I mean i support Peta against KFC but there is a limit on what you can do

Posted by: CJ | April 9, 2009 07:40 AM

Listen up people...A graveyard is where deceased loved ones are laid to rest and where we go to visit with those loved ones. It is a place for solemn thought and a place of peace...it is NOT a place to take your battles no matter how much you belive in them. I am neither for or against PETA or any other agency that protects animals but this just disgusts me. How would you like it if someone were to have a grave advocating something against you right next to yours so your family had to see it every time they came to visit you?

Posted by: Jack | April 28, 2009 08:09 AM

Ana,
I like eating fried chicken too, but there are companies that are alot more humane to their chickens. I would rather shop there than KFC, where they serve the same food, but are cruel and horrible to chickens. Kentucky Fried Cruelty sums it up EXACTLY.

Posted by: Ashley | April 29, 2009 04:03 PM

Anybody who does not feel compassion for these chickens is evil. This is so sad and unnecessary. I eat at KFC constantly but I will now stop. This is totally evil.

Posted by: Tony in Los Angeles | May 5, 2009 07:51 PM

WOW that headstone is soooooo awesome and true he deserves it

Posted by: Amanda | May 6, 2009 12:24 AM

Why hasn't anyone mention who owns KFC. The Pepsi Corporation. Can we say Fortune 500 is evil !!!

Posted by: Roberto | May 6, 2009 07:23 PM

Wow, the opposing views of the haters and the defenders go nowhere. Complete lockup of opinion between people calling each other "evil" and "crazy."

Yawn.

Personally, the means of protest need to match the desired ends, and disrespecting, insulting and vilifying human animals in the name of respecting non-human animals is never going to take you where you want to go.

Posted by: VEGAN! | May 6, 2009 08:19 PM

I always feel more for people then I do for animals because I am a person and not an animal.

If you want to defend an animal against cruelty I understand your concern, as long as that animal does not as in this case exist as part of what is known as the food chain in a position so close to the bottom. I do not feel sorrow when snakes eat rodents. Perhaps we should worry that all the human children of the world have food to eat. Before we decide to make it more difficult to produce that food. Please understand that I do not respect cruelty. Starving Children is much more cruel then using a wall to break the neck of a chicken that will be eaten.

Posted by: AJ | May 10, 2009 02:30 AM

Umm, 1st off-

Maya:
I believe that Kelly is making a valid point. Your sarcasm is kind of annoying, especially when it's about such a serious issue. I respect your opinions as well, but do we need to offend others to say them?

2nd

AJ, animals have feelings too! Animals are better than humans, technically. Do animals create horrid weapons to kill thousands of another at a time? Do animals have sex with other animals because they're bored, or they like the way it feels? We can grow plants, while animals can't. They have to eat each other. Let me remind you- many animals are omnivoures and vegetarians.

3rd

The meat industry causes more pollution and environmental harm than all of the cars, factories, and natural waste caused- COMBINED!

4th
sorry, my list is getting long... :(

5th

Good job Matt! Who cares? The loved ones of the dead people can see how cruel KFC really is. And that... "false grave" stands for all the chickens that have died for it's meat.

Posted by: Vegetariansmakebetterlovers | May 12, 2009 03:12 PM

i am very sad about all this crap going on, but you know what this beautifull world is all about CARMA!,and those insignificant fools will get whats coming to them! i am so sick of animal creulty! i cry so much for any helpless creature,that this video made me sick n so pist off! and it ashames me because i work for kfc corp n i never tought this was the way they decide to tourcher and kill these poor sweet babys! it really hurts me deep!but i will do all that i can for everybody to see this n bring the one responsible down!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: anaboop | May 13, 2009 12:30 AM

ok, 1.) Animals ARE NOT PEOPLE so stop treating them like they are.
2.) most KFC establishments DO NOT raise their own chickens.
3.) Why sont you people worry about people first, there are tons of people that would kill for the very veggies you eat, ow about a PETP (People for the Ethical Treatment of PEOPLE)

Posted by: Keith | May 15, 2009 11:20 PM

KFC sucks bad anyway

Posted by: Al3xXys | May 23, 2009 12:33 PM

This is disrespectful. Harland "Colonel" Sanders sold his company in 1964 and after that he didn't have any control of what they did to his recipe. The company wasn't even passed to PepsiCo until 1986! He died in 1960! How could he have had anything to do with the abuse of KFC's chickens when he died 26 years before? Yes, I agree that animal abuse is wrong but you shouldn't blame Sanders for something he had no control over!

Posted by: Mickey | May 25, 2009 11:32 AM

Hey, I understand wht you're getting at. I am a conservative (I know, right?) so I understand you want to help people. Maybe they shouldn't have put the blame on Sanders, yet Matt was making a point. There has to be someone to speak for those without the ability to... like abortion. Unborn babies can't talk, and they don't hurt anyone, and still, they're killed to "make our lives easier". Chickens and cows can't speak, and, surprise surprise, are "killed to make our lives easier". How's that?

Posted by: Vegetariansmakebetterlovers | May 26, 2009 03:28 PM

I hope the man is seeing slaughtered chicken's for eternity! Yes, I eat meat! Lots of it. I do feel that animals were put on this earth for consumsion,for humans or other animals. But for GOD'S sake, please kill the animals in a respectfull painless way! 100's of thousands of chickens are being killed in a rediculous painly way as your reading this at his factories. The "Colonel" wasn't aware of it??? Your darn right he knew what was going on behind the scenes. He and his families reap the rewards! He will be lucky, very lucky if GOD rests his soul.... Enjoy KFC today, pay for it when "YOU" die...
"Shame on people who are cruel to ANYTHING!"

Posted by: Bob | June 7, 2009 02:39 AM

this is a great way to put something out there! i must agree, the colonels family must be hurt, but i honestly think he put that on himself. im a proud vegitarian, as of 6 months ago lmao, and ive never laid a hand on KFC, especially now. KFC'S GOING DOWNNNN.

Posted by: JORI | June 11, 2009 12:57 PM

AN EXCELENT PIECE.
matthew prescott: MASTER OF TORTURE: R.I.P. (REST IN PAIN)!! AS YOUR "BELOVED FRIENDS" THE CHICKENS.
DEEP IN HELL WE ALL HOPE YOU BECOME UNDONE IN THE CLEANSING FLAMES.
I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT DOWN THERE, JUST LIKE THE BIRDS IN THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE YOU CRUEL, MINDLESS, GREEDY 'UNPERSON'.
MOTHER EARTH AND I WISH YOU R.I.P. --> REST IN PAIN. AND REST IN SHAME.

Posted by: Winston Smith | June 26, 2009 11:00 PM

James: Totally agree. god didn't put animals on earth to abuse them. If god really exists, then almost evryone wood b sinning just eating meat. don't think your sinning? FINE, there is no JC.

Posted by: veg = purelife | June 29, 2009 03:39 PM

I'm all for being against animal cruelty, and I'm against KFC. But personally, I think this went a little overboard. Honestly, you didn't really need to do this, it won't make much of a difference anyways. He's dead, and he'll never be able to read it, so it won't affect him, either..
Animal cruelty is bad, yes; but this was quite out of hand.

Posted by: Jenny. | July 1, 2009 12:44 PM

this is awesome i cant believe any of u would disagree this idiot started this retarded "company" and he deserves to see wat he has done
and workers that abuse and dont do nothing shud b sent to high level of prison to witness "some" of their pain
i had a headache after watchin some of peta's videos sick n twisted losers who put their bs on animals wat a retarded world we live in WOW
*sighhhh* so sad so sad those who kno n STILL eat meat WOW
its a animal holocaust but even WORSTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!WTRF!!!!!!!!!!!!sdsbgskbg!!!!!
djnnbou!!!!!!!!!!!nibiub!BBOUb!!14 5Y0 O.;CX0HUXBA8F5!! EVERYBODY THAT ABUSES SHUD ALL B TORTURED!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Letan from cali bay | July 13, 2009 12:52 AM

Um,...
God commands the sacrifice of animals in the Old Testament. After the sacrifice the meat is to be eaten by the High Priests.
This should end the argument as to whether Christ condemned the eating of animal flesh, as any good Christian knows that Christ was God in the Old Testament.

Kind of a red herring as the issue here is not whether you need to be a Vegan to be a good person, but the torture of and disrespect for His creation. A good Christian takes it for granted that life must be treated with respect and that torture is not Christlike.

I grew up on a small farm. I have had home grown chicken, and the experience of preparing it made beans and rice much better tasting than chicken for many years.(most people would eat much less meat, if they had to put an animal down themselves even just once.) I don't feel guilty for eating meat, but i feel much more reverence when i do.

Most people in today's world never have this experience. That is why it is important that PETA continue to educate people. Once you have been woken up, you will have a changed heart, and will never be the same old American meat-eater.

Now as for the headstone. Everyone knows it is shocking. Most agree that it is offensive. Some believe that offense and shock are very effective tools. (shock and awe baby) If nothing else they get attention. Like in any war every operation will create new friends as well as new enemies. And like in any war the more friends or enemies equals a quicker end to the fight.

I personally find the method used in very poor taste. I also find it effective in bringing more to an awareness of the fight.

Posted by: Old Man Clark | July 15, 2009 07:22 PM

what the hell i read the comments and that is completely childish you shouldnt be fighting about whos f**king better of making snobby comments this picture is for the rights of the animals not for god damn people to say they trashed it they spoke their minds in their own manner i applaud them screw KFC and the family probably thinks it too!!

Posted by: felicia | July 22, 2009 05:44 PM

okay seriously? what is the point in putting that on a grave stone? thats really rude, i will agree that what they do at KFC farms is terrible but he's dead. What is he gonna do now?

Posted by: Amy | July 22, 2009 08:24 PM

Um, PETA, let's remember that Colonel Sanders is DEAD, and maybe he would have changed KFC if he was still alive! Maybe KFC started torturing after the Colonel passed! Sorry PETA, but this is really low. I AM a strong supporter of PETA, but maybe next time we should attack KFC instead of a dead man and his family.

Posted by: Donald | July 25, 2009 05:27 PM

Could you tell me the date of Colonel Sander's death?
Thank you.

Posted by: Anne | July 28, 2009 05:46 PM

Although I am against the abuse of kfc and it's satanic practices against animals.. I feel it is beyond wrong to blame the founder who has been dead almost 30 years now.. I doubt if Harland Sanders would have approved such abuse.. Often when founders of companes die often the vision they had for their company goes to the grave with them...

Posted by: JESUS H. CHRIST | August 4, 2009 12:22 AM

kfc is cruel!!!!!! its sick to what they do to to these defendless trukeys or chickens or wateva they should put " KENTUCKY FRIED SHIT!!!!!!' CUZ ITS NOT FAIR!! its nast to what they do to dem i mean the ppl dat abuse dem r sik n i hpe thy die n go to hell!!! n abuse dem n c how mch its hrts to be abused cuz these turkeys been tru all the pain FUK KFC!!!!!!!!

Posted by: KEYRI | August 12, 2009 08:12 PM

im no fan of the kfc chiken killings but that is very disrespectfull to colonel sanders i support the campiang but not in that why

Posted by: anomuous | August 24, 2009 08:37 PM

KFC IS WRONG

Posted by: FAISAL | August 29, 2009 04:58 AM

men pon algo en espanol llo soi de mexico y no entiendo ni bolas (que son las que te comes)

Posted by: juan | August 30, 2009 08:23 PM

Why are we all focusing so much energy on how much this "offends people", and "cheapens the memory" of a man who slaughtered animals for profit? Chickens get their beak snipped off without anesthetic to keep them from pecking at each other, then get thrown into cages so small that they can't even turn around. After spending their whole life sitting in their own excrement, their feet grow into the bottoms of the wire cages, all the while being starved into tricking their body into another egg laying cycle. Then we tear them from their cage, slaughter them and dish them up with a biscuit and a Pepsi for $5. Let's not forget that chickens don't have the luxury of caring about other peoples feelings. What makes us so special?

Posted by: Calvin | September 4, 2009 02:41 PM

KFC forced to closed down temporarily in MAURITIUS because of sanitary problems.

The food is not great. The price is worse for the size as well! :-/

Posted by: Kevin | October 6, 2009 03:56 AM

Hello there! I was wondering how I may move my family of 6; a 4 month old,3 year old, 6 year old, nine year old, 26 year old and me,35 years old, onto a vegan diet? This seems the only way to truly not hurt any animals. My family eat alot of meat; KFC, MuckDonnalds, pizza, Hungry Jacks, Chinese food (the westernized fatty type),etc.We are, I think, slightly addicted to this food. My 4 month old has not yet eaten anything and I want to get this right for her. I also want to start teaching my family about animal cruelty and rites, without freaking them out. Are there any teaching materials designed for children regarding this matter. We used to be healthier when we lived in the hills but now we have been in suburbia for 3 years and we don't exercise and there are fast food out lets every where. We need much inspiration, I think that I'm slowly killing my children, and killing their souls.

Posted by: The Ashby Rose | October 8, 2009 05:32 AM

I think this is awesome! This terrible man has done the most treacherous acts of cruelty I have ever seen and he deserves no respect, when he was alive or in death. This is the very small price he pays for doing such cruel and just pure evil things. End of story.

Posted by: Sarah | November 3, 2009 09:32 PM

I am from Romania and I`m devastated by what happens here. I am logged on a romanian national news programme site and I can`t believe my eyes: a farmer beats his horse with a shovel because it got stuck in the mud..a guy rapes a horse twice and the kills it...a horse is brutally killed so that it can be fed to lions at a Zoo in the city of Braila..dogs are poisoned on the streets...a man actually beats a dog with his fists...a cat is cruccified on a road sign..it`s horrible...i cryed for hours after seeing the "Earthlings" movie..

after all this, we wonder why we are sick, why everything goes wrong for us...it`s because we DESERVE everything bad that happens to us!
I made a promise, together with my boyfriend: we won`t interfere if we see men fighting because probably they deserve it. but we will most definetely interfere if we see scenes of cruelty against animals.
My mother already hates me for adopting every stray cat/dog I find...I have 12 cats and 8 dogs...and my mother`s complaining that their food costs a huge amount of money..but I just can`t throw them away..and the cats and the dogs alway look at me with the "please don`t send us away" eyes....

**please excuse my grammar and spelling mistakes**

Posted by: Crisu | November 17, 2009 08:19 AM

eat for life, not life for eat...

Posted by: Anthony | November 20, 2009 12:35 AM