PETA blasts Fox Television for turning away fowl ads

KFC breeds and drugs chickens to grow so big so fast that their legs become deformed, slices the birds’ throats open, and dumps them in boiling water while they’re still conscious. The poor birds are literally scalded to death. Members of KFC’s own advisory panel have even resigned because the company refuses to improve its standards. See for yourself: www.KentucyFriedCruelty.com.

Isn't Peta the same organization that took dogs and cats from North Carolina animal shelters, promising to find them homes, only to euthanize them before leaving the parking lots? And didn't they toss the carcasses in a grocery store dumpster? And, on one occasion, didn't one of said peta people promise to find a home for a dog owned by a shelter worker, and instead kill it as soon as they arrived in Norfolk?

But somehow we're supposed to beleive PETA is against animal abuse? Right.

If people took the time to look at meetyourmeat.com or kentuckyfriedcruelty.com they would understand just what happens to the animals before they end up on the dinner table. It ISN'T pretty.

Most reasonable people would not want their dog or cat subjected to the sort of abuse factory farm animals endure. However, they fail to realize (or accept) that all sentient beings have the capacity to feel fear and pain.

Have the courage to get the facts on factory farmed animals, then decide for yourself if you want to be responsible for their suffering.

Angela,

I stopped after my second Masters degree; where'd you get your Phd? Was it one of Virginia's Ivy League powerhouses or a top tier law school like Regent?

Or does your statement, "Most of you do not have a good education" refer to the college interns and high school students getting course credit for their work in a non-profit office for experience but who will not graduate for a couple more years? You're correct that you probably make more money than those youngsters.

There’ve been a lot of comments about what PETA should do with the money earmarked for the Super Bowl commercials. I asked someone I know at PETA, and the money to pay for them was donated specifically for that purpose--meaning they would only get the money to pay for the commercials, not for other things. I wish I had a few extra million to give away. If I did, some would go to PETA for their spay/neuter clinic, SNIP, which travels around Hampton Roads. I took my cats there to be vaccinated, and their veterinarian was wonderful.

People have mentioned that PETA should help the homeless. Well, they already do. PETA has been giving old fur coats to homeless people for years, and even sent some to Afghan refugees a few years back. I also read that PETA put on a free Thanksgiving dinner at a homeless shelter in Las Vegas with Pamela Anderson--all the families at the shelter got a hot meal for the holiday.

I don't live in

"Typical PETA, trying to bully and strongarm everyone into seeing things their way, and thinking they have a leg to stand on"

When you find it is ok to limit one group at any puruit because you agree, disagree, or prefer another point of view you have crossed a line. Do be careful. Often the popular opinion can be dead wrong. The difference between us and countries like China or Nazi Germany of the past is that dissent is part of our fiber. When you find it is ok to limit anothers speach it is actually reducing your own rights. angelak, your writing is incoherent. "Highly educated" you say? BTW, I prefer to be viewed as a bit of a redneck. I eat meat. I have shot an animal to make it into meat. However, I will not limit your rights because of my beliefs. What Fox did was wrong.

Ok, I am most certainly NOT a redneck. I am also from this area and can't stand Peta. Just because those of us are opposed to Peta, doesn't mean we are not well informed, or are redneck animal killers. I am highly educated, and love animals.
For those involved in Peta: Look around you. Most of you do not have a good education and/or job, or direction in life. You spend your time 'being' something. 'Being' a hippie, or a garbage eater, or in this case, saving the poor animals...so you think. How many doctors, lawyers, business professionals or anyone making a decent living do you see protesting?
How MANY animals does Peta help? Show me the money.
You whoop up the whole PETA thing and make signs, headlines and headaches for normal citizens trying to get through downtown during the circus...but what good are you doing? You need to get a life of your own before you set out to save a lion that isn't even in the circus (last years protest).
Kudo's to the shrewd business execs at Peta, you sure do know how to appeal to the fadists and make a lot of money for yourselves.

So PETA killed 97% of the animals it took in 2006 so who is more dangerous to animals?

Quoted from court testimony:"a PETA manager acknowledged that her organization maintains a large walk-in freezer for storing dead animals, and that PETA contracts with a Virginia cremation service to dispose of the bodies. "

Gee, PETA only saved 12 animals that year and killed the rest.... Nice job..

I think that FOX would have shown the commercial if it had been requested by girl scouts rather than PETA.

Oh if these two comments are not approved for viewing then every notion that I have about people in general is true. If you can let others post on eating meat is okay, then you have major issues.

Why aren't all the people writing in who are mad at PETA mad at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy? They're the ones who pissed away $4million of OUR money to run an ad in a program well-known as a failure. And, the amount of drugs and hormones used to grow chickens is enough for the average male chicken eating American to grow breasts! It's too bad that FOX gets better ratings dealing with emotions than facts. Like PETA or not, the work they do promotes better lives for animals and people. You can believe that, or eat sick chickens at KFC every day for a month or two and see if you end up any healthier than they were.

Well, cdfidoe, one tortures a chicken by scalding them alive, stomping on them, breaking their legs, mutilating them while they are conscious, etc. Getting water dripped on them is probably the least of their problems.

I can't understand why so many people are upset that animal organizations are trying to get more humane practices implemented. Does compassion really tick people off that much? Obviously there is a great deal of blindness on issues like this - cdfidoe seems to think the worst chickens face is waterboarding - so aren't you all just proving the need for ads like PETA's? Something to think about.

PETA is there for animals who need help. Whether through their spay/neuter service, the best dog park around, encouraging local restaurants and grocery stores to provide healthy alternatives to meat (anyone, even a meat-eater, can enjoy a soy burger!) or providing free straw to help dogs who live outside warm, this organization is doing a lot of good.

Anyone who really wants a good look at PETA should watch HBO's I Am an Animal: The Ingrid Newkirk Story. I hesitantly watched it only to find it did not take sides and was more of an expose of Ms. Newkirk's mentality. The woman is certifiable. She gives praise to the Animal Liberation Front (ALF, Google them). Several interviews of other organizations were given and most of what they said had negative connotations about Ms. Newkirk. The best statement given (paraphrased), "PETA is great at self-promotion but has done little in making the quality of life for animals any better."

PeTA claims they don't have enough money to house an animal shelter, so that's why the Ahoskie Two had to kill all those puppies and kittens, but here they are trying to splurge a few million on a Super Bowl ad.

Seems to me their priorities are a little out of whack.

I love the response of people being told the diet of corporate farmed chickens includes ground up fatty cow carcasses, growth hormones, bird droppings and cow poop which sicken the birds despite massive doses of anti-biotics and require exposure to radiation to kill the diseases before being packaged. Their diners responses, "don't tell me that. I'm trying to eat!"

You people are just too priceless for words. Guess you are what you eat.

How does one "torture" a chicken?? I have pictures of KFC execs sitting in a dark room dripping water on a chickens face until it can't take it anymore and fries itself in agony...

Whatever PETA.. get a life..

Eat More Chicken...

If any single one of the people who has read and responded to this biased article had any awareness of what it is that PeTA does and is talking about, then at least some of you would be preaching a different sermon. It's so tired how all the rednecks in this area are so quick to judge this organization who not only advocates care and quality of life for animals, but demands the same for human beings. All of you haters who want to cry out "Whiners" and "Babies" and ask what they're complaining about and say they have no right to make an argument are doing the exact same thing when you call them these names and make your one-sided, biased, and ill-informed arguments.
The language of the article could be at fault for some of these. Despite an alleged leftist domination of the media, Hampton Roads' media tends to be much more conservative in expressed views. The first sentence in which Mr. Stone reports that PeTA is 'crying foul' against Fox is a blatant and dismissive inaccurate and subjective way of reporting the news. Does Mr. Stone use that sort of language when referring to Fox's resentful replies? The answer is, precisely, 'No.'

And I suppose that makes alane64299 a candidate for sainthood! First of all, what I choose to do with my spare time or the money I earn is none of your business, nor is it YOUR place to look down your nose at me because I choose to help animals instead of people, but I get the feeling you do that quite often. From your self-rightous and self-congratulatory rant however, it's obvious to anyone that you use this so-called generosity to grant yourself acendancy over others-you know absolutly nothing about me or the work I do.

Unlike animals, homeless people HAVE THE ABILITY AND THE POWER to change their circumstances, therein lies the difference.

Is PeTA off the chart nutty? They certainly are. The fact that you buy a homeless person a cup of coffee certainly doesn't qualify you to look down at others or set yourself above them as you obviously try to do.

BTW, for the past 8 years, I've been at a homless shelter in VA. Beach cooking dinner for the homeless during the wee-hours of every Christmas morning and don't recall seeing YOU there...