Saturday, January 14, 2006

Pamela Anderson wants to remove bust?

I can be downright juvenile sometimes! :-) From ABC News:
FRANKFORT, Ky. - Pamela Anderson is leading a charge to remove a bust of KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders from the state Capitol. (Must...resist..."bust joke"! - Ed.)

The actress called the Kentucky native's likeness "a monument to cruelty" to chickens in a statement issued by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the animal rights group.

The statement did little to ruffle feathers in Gov. Ernie Fletcher's office.

"Colonel Sanders was one of Kentucky's most distinguished citizens, a great entrepreneur and a fine charitable man of faith, and he certainly has a place in Kentucky history. We believe he warrants appropriate recognition as such," Fletcher spokeswoman Jodi Whitaker said.

Anderson has been involved in a campaign to raise awareness of conditions in processing plants that supply poultry to the Louisville-based chicken chain.

In a letter to Fletcher, Anderson detailed alleged abuses of chickens by KFC suppliers. Among her claims, she said workers in a slaughterhouse in West Virginia have been filmed tearing the heads off live birds, spitting tobacco in their eyes, spray-painting their faces and slamming them on the ground.

KFC spokeswoman Laurie Schalow called the move to oust the colonel "just another misguided publicity stunt by PETA in their attempt to create a vegan society."
Good luck on trying to convince Kentuckyans to give up chicken, Yummybritches! You'd have a better chance at getting Bill Clinton to leave interns alone.

I have no problems with vegetarians. Hell, they can eat paint chips, for all I care. But by God (insert animal-named deity here), these vegans who try to foist their menu choices on the rest of us just steam my cabbage! Too bad they get more worked up over a McChicken sandwich than they do, say, a partial-birth abortion. But that's a different topic for a different day.

I am definitely outraged, though, at workers spitting tobacco in the eyes of the chickens. I mean, does that tobacco get on the rest of the chicken?! Are we eating tobacco-crusted chicken?! I demand an investigation! Hell, it's probably George Bush's fault!

For those of you on the left, the prior paragraph was sarcasm.