Oprah Winfrey is handing out KFC coupons amid KFC’s campaign to “Unthink What You Thought About KFC.” Kentucky Fried Chicken is promoting the meal it has been serving for 50 years by allowing customers to download coupons for a free two-piece Kentucky Grilled Chicken meal.
The problem is that Oprah, who earned the title of Peta’s 2008 person of the year, is teaming up with one of the cruelest fast food chains in the industry. She also had a special last year on the “dark side of chicken farming,” and KFC is a notorious offender of this, with millions of the birds bred every year dying before slaughter from illnesses or cramped conditions.
Dawn Carr, director of Peta Europe, said: “KFC is the world’s largest killer of chickens, and as such has a responsibility to treat these birds humanely. Nearly 800 million chickens are killed every year in the cruellest ways imaginable. Although our ultimate aim is for people to go vegetarian, we are calling on KFC to implement some welfare standards and make life a little bit better for these birds.”
January 12th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
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September 13th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
This is a good article and highlights a key point. One thing that disappoints me, and this article is not alone, is the fact that it doesn’t amrry the issues that can be addressed and create an even better arguement for or against!
KFC do kill millions of chickens and I imagine that not all are killed humanely (if you can kill something humanely?) but what about the other issues involved here? The issue of the sustainability of food sources globally, the idea that KFC makes people fat and is unhealthy, the fact that they are homogenising the idea of what a ‘chicken meal’ is and essentaially what chicken is!!! Yes this is a case.
The contentious issue of nutrituion is one I particulrly think should be married here. The fact is being fat isn’t healthy, being overwight and underexercised are dangerous to ones healthy, often create a downward spiral of circumstnaces leading to associated health issues. KFC is a contributer to this. Cheap, unsustainable and unhealthy ‘junk’ food, which KFC is, allows people to wallow into the abyss of the aforementioned. This simply isn’t good enough and the facts speak for themselves – look at the state of the general population of the ‘developed world’ – they are overwight, by a majority!
I am not saying ban KFC or McDonalds – though I chose not to eat there myself – I am saying that people MUST be educated to realise that THIS IS NOT FOOD, it is not a ‘meal’ it is cheap for a reason and there are alternative options!!
We must unite the arguements! I am sick of buying organic products shipped thousands of miles around the world – this isn’t ‘organis’ when you think of the petroleum based products used to get it to me! Fair Trade is a wonderful idea, but again, it means I am buying something from around the globe.
The answer – this is not simple, but I think people blindly support the such activities because they know nothing else. The same reason that they chose KFC every night because it is at the end of the block, or on their drive home, is the same reason they don’t research, understand and know what is going on. People say it is a busy world and they don’t have time – we all have time – we just chose to use it ineffeciently and are convinced we don’t have any by modern media and television. If you have time to watch Oprah handing out KFC vouchers on TV, you have time to read the label of a product, or time to sit and learn how to cook a chicken breat in a differnt way.
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Restaurants normally supply discount coupons to get individuals to come in and eat. You do have to pay close attention to the particulars of the coupon though. Plenty of of them may have distinct days of the week they could be used. Some of them also have a set time frame where they can?t be utilized following four pm or some thing comparable.