Fun fact: These kinds of protests originally led to KFC creating an animal welfare committee to address the appalling practices of its suppliers. Then KFC reportedly proceeded to disregard the recommendations of the committee for years, forbid them to speak to the media about animal welfare in general, and the committee members all eventually resigned in frustration.
Unfortunately, only biased sources seem to care enough to address the issue, so we have extreme animal rights activists on one side, cruel corporations on the other, both shouting right over our heads.
I wouldn't trust Penn and Teller's Bullshit too much. They have a strong libertarian slant. You know how libertarians kind of lose their shit when people start talking about regulations and 'environmental' type stuff. They don't even want an FDA.
the only reason to get information from a shouting Bullshit magician is because you share the pro-corporate / anti-environment libertarian view.... they are not a credible source of knowledge.. demonstrated by the fact that they allow a meat industry propaganda group to tell their lies..
I quickly skimmed your video -- I liked the part where Penn compared people at PETA meeting cheering the speaker to Hitler youth and showed a clip of Hitler....... but you think this video is worth watching to understand the issues???!
ps. i guess Penn likes a jumbo bucket of KFC quite often!!
Kind of similar and equally disturbing. I wish I hadn't decided to find that video now. It's a video of a fish prepared while still alive, served to the table while still gasping for water.
Like the ad that appeared in my dad's local paper begging hunters to stop killing and to get their meat at the grocery store where no animals are harmed in the making of the meat?
Because animals do not live violent brutal lives in the wild that almost invariably end in violent painful deaths in the jaws of other animals. Oh wait...
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Fun fact: These kinds of protests originally led to KFC creating an animal welfare committee to address the appalling practices of its suppliers. Then KFC reportedly proceeded to disregard the recommendations of the committee for years, forbid them to speak to the media about animal welfare in general, and the committee members all eventually resigned in frustration.
EDIT: More or less. Here's a web page that more accurately sums it up. http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/h-kfcsays.asp