Oprah’s recent pairing with KFC has many animal rights activists crying fowl. Oprah and KFC teamed up to offer Americans a free chicken meal. The offer was so popular that there were reported line-ups, KFC restaurants running out of chicken and even a few riots. However, KFC has said the reports of riots were greatly exaggerated.
PETA is not amused. In fact, PETA who recently named Oprah their Person of the Year 2008 for her work to raise awareness about factory farming, have decided that the talk show hostess must have been duped into working with KFC.
PETA issued the following statement:
Chickens pay a high price for that free meal at KFC. The company allows its suppliers to scald birds to death in defeathering tanks and to break their wings and legs as they are shackled. When PETA heard about Oprah’s promotion, we immediately wrote to her privately to ask if KFC had deliberately misled her as it had misled consumers on its web site. Considering how strongly Oprah has publicly criticized cruelty to chickens in the food industry, PETA believes that Oprah was likely the victim of the very consumer deception practices that PETA cited in its recent complaint about KFC to the Federal Trade Commission. In a letter to Oprah, PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk wrote, “I believe you had no idea that KFC has refused to take any action to stop its suppliers from scalding birds alive and breaking birds’ wings and legs during live shackling.”
Do you think Oprah was duped, trying to do good or just doesn’t care about factory-farmed chickens?
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