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Home Front: Culture Wars
Al Sharpton and PETA vs. Yum
2005-02-02
Starting today, Mr. Sharpton is joining forces with the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to urge a boycott of KFC, which is owned by Yum Brands of Louisville, Ky. Mr. Sharpton and PETA want the fast food chain to require its chicken suppliers to put in place new standards for the treatment of the 750 million chickens they process for KFC every year in the United States...
NYT reg req'd, but why bother? Al is probably upset because they use far more white chickens than black chickens.
Posted by:Anonymoose

#18  Clue me in if I'm wrong, but wasn't Sharpton part of the hubub a few years ago, where they were saying that chicken growers were putting hormones in chicken so that black girls get boobs by the time they're eight, and turn into skanks by 10?
I think it was part of the "whitey's out to get us" paranoia that launched whole CIA/cocaine/black ghetto whackiness, which quite a few of the LLL still believe.
Posted by: Asedwich   2005-02-02 9:48:23 PM  

#17  TW, I cook grocery chicken meat in a crockpot, with ample supply of seasoning. Then it is fairly palatable. Of course, free range fowl is yummy.
Posted by: Sobiesky   2005-02-02 9:46:42 PM  

#16  HEY! Thats MY medal! He musta been the guy that boosted it off me at that Earth Wind and Fire concert at the Aragon Ballroom back in '77!
Posted by: Darth VAda   2005-02-02 8:50:49 PM  

#15  Sobiesky, if you soak even grocery store chicken in a salt water brine for an hour or so (a little like koshering it), it will taste as good as free range. Unfortunately, nothing can be done to improve those horrible greenhouse-grown tomatoes from Holland.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-02-02 8:45:56 PM  

#14  Well => I <= want to know where Sharpton got that medal and what trials, travails, and hardships he had to endure to win it. I'm sure Khadaffy would want one, too, if he saw the pic. Pretty spiffy.

I open the floor for ideas regards where / what / how the medal came to be his, heh. For example, The Tawanna Brawley Memorial Scat Master?
Posted by: .com   2005-02-02 7:49:26 PM  

#13  Shipman, not really. Just don't like the taste, somewhat bland and plastic. In fact, most of the chicken in the stores taste that way.

It's similar with tomatoes, they taste like cardboard. I grow my own. Not chickens though, although I could find a room for a chicken coop in my backyard. Lazy I am.
Posted by: Sobiesky   2005-02-02 7:42:03 PM  

#12  mucky:
whatn rong with treating humanely the creechers ya plan on using?

Because fear is one of the seven herbs and spices that makes it taste so good.
Posted by: BH   2005-02-02 6:12:24 PM  

#11  Sobiesky is bein assimalayted.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-02-02 6:12:21 PM  

#10  Mucky, ya have a point. I am not sure about kfc practices as creechers go, but considering the taste if you peel off the breading with spices, it ain't anything good.
Posted by: Sobiesky   2005-02-02 5:00:55 PM  

#9  whatn rong with treating humanely the creechers ya plan on using? go al! the reeson kfc's the focus is that em other chiken places are tryin to treat there chikens humanely when raisin em. kfc usin a bunch of abusive assholes.
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-02-02 4:54:39 PM  

#8  mmmmmmmm Dirty Rice!
Posted by: Homer   2005-02-02 2:00:15 PM  

#7  He's not only an owner, but a customer too.
Posted by: ed   2005-02-02 1:50:50 PM  

#6  He looks more like a Bojangles man to me.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2005-02-02 1:48:00 PM  

#5  Ten bucks says Al is a shareholder in Popeye's Chicken.
Posted by: Penguin   2005-02-02 1:31:11 PM  

#4  Good to see Al is staying on top of the important issues.
Posted by: Chris W.   2005-02-02 1:09:13 PM  

#3  MMMMMMM CHICKEN! I lover the extra crispy!
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-02-02 1:07:03 PM  

#2  Al and fried chicken?
I'm not going anywhere near this...
Posted by: tu3031   2005-02-02 11:21:44 AM  

#1  Hey, guys... They're chickens. We're doing them a favor by killing them.

And they're tasty, too!
Posted by: mojo   2005-02-02 11:18:59 AM  

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