PETA is at it again, this is the second time in a month they have targeted kids for their warped agenda. Just a couple of weeks ago they were handing kids pamphlets of slain animals with graphic pictures not suitable for children.
NOW, this.
Kids hoping to grab a Happy Meal from McDonald's might end up with PETA's Unhappy Meal instead.The animal rights organization lifted its moratorium on the McCruelty Campaign this year and since June has distributed Chicken McCruelty Unhappy Meals to McDonald's customers outside about a dozen restaurants around the country."McDonald's markets its food to children by packaging it in brightly colored boxes with toys," Lindsay Rajt, a spokeswoman for PETA, tells Slashfood.
"But most kids really love animals, and if they knew that McDonald's suppliers were breaking the wings and legs of gentle animals like chickens, I think that you'd have to drag kids into McDonald's kicking and screaming.
"The campaign, though, has parents "hatin' it."A PETA protest of a McDonald's in Albany, N.Y., upset parents on Thursday, WXXA-TV reports."I don't want my son to be around something like this," parent Stephanie Gipson told the station. "This is not fair for a child."But Rajt says children have seen worse things than PETA's Unhappy Meal, which comes "stained with blood" and containing a bloody rubber chicken, a cutout of a knife-wielding Ronald McDonald, photos of mutilated animals and a Chicken McCruelty T-shirt."Kids deserve to be told the truth and we really do need to give them credit," she says.
"The bottom line is that they've really seen much worse in movies and videogames, and we all know that kids empathize with animals."McDonald's told Slashfood that it expects the humane treatment of animals from its suppliers.Our goal has always been to lead the industry by bringing about improvements in animal welfare including rigorous, ongoing audits of our suppliers' facilities.
"McDonald's works with leading independent animal welfare experts and makes decisions based upon science to promote continuous improvement in animal welfare as part of our broader sustainable supply chain initiatives," Bob Langert, McDonald's vice president of corporate social responsibility, says in a statement to Slashfood.
"McDonald's continues to support our chicken suppliers' use of both controlled atmosphere stunning (CAS) and electrical stunning. There is no conclusive scientific consensus that one practice is better than the other, however, we recognize that in either method, good management practices are critical," he says.
"It is also important to note that in the U.S., there are no large-scale chicken producers that currently use the CAS method, therefore demands to purchase chickens from this method to meet McDonald's supply needs are not viable." PETA says it worked with McDonald's behind the scenes from 2000 to February 2009 before it re-instituted its McCruelty campaign. A PETA protest was expected Friday afternoon at a restaurant in South Burlington, Vt.
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Poor PETA. Nothing better to do than harrass children. It's probably a very good thing I was not one of the parents that witnessed that stupidity.
ReplyDeleteMaybe what they do not realise is that the way chickens are processed today is much more humane than chopping their heads off on a block and letting them flop around in the barnyard.
Or having 4 men lined up against a tiled wall dressed in rubber suits and gloves, armed with sharp knives, waiting for the chickens to come down a line to cut their heads off!
The industry has come along way. I think PETA members should be glad they aren't chickens! And extra glad they never met me at a McDonald's with my kids! Wouldn't be nice.
"The industry has come along way. I think PETA members should be glad they aren't chickens! And extra glad they never met me at a McDonald's with my kids! Wouldn't be nice."
ReplyDeleteLOL, same here.
I'd give'em something they'd remember everytime they thought about a chicken.
Funny thing is the most dramatic thing a chicken has to endure is when they are rounded-up and caught.
Heck one bruise and they will fire the person that bruised it.
PETA has one and only one agenda, and that's to MAKE everyone eat vegetables, but I remember and I bet you do too, when groups like PETA that were tree huggers didn't want us to eat plants of any kind.
They said plants had feelings and could actually scream when harmed.
The left 'fringe' is a loony group.
brings up that naggin ol' question.
"is liberalism a mental disorder?"
"is liberalism a mental disorder"?
ReplyDeleteI'd say, in most cases that's a definite YES.
I can't believe people support this bs. Wonder what their diet consists of?
"Wonder what their diet consists of?"
ReplyDeleteHamburgers, medium. Hold the phones :)