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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (102236)4/28/2005 11:16:33 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
I would not have chosen Pamela Anderson to do a video about how KFC treats chickens. I think she is a somewhat divisive choice. However, as Ionseco points out, she is popular among teenagers (a very big KFC consumer group). PETA's strategy is to get attention (or its campaigns will not get enough of the public interested in them to effect change).

However, I also think it is very easy to make PETA's strategies or spokespeople the subject of the debate, when the issue is really about how animals are treated. PETA wants KFC to develop more humane ways of treating chickens. Wouldn't that actually make you feel better when you eat chicken? We can see from the data I posted from the broiler growers' publication that as over-breasted chickens become gradually more lame as those antibiotic, growth hormone plugged breasts grow, the birds choose more and more painkillers in their food, which certainly indicates they are in increasing pain. Does this make you feel good about the chicken you are eating? Would you feel more comfortable eating chicken if they were humanely gassed to death instead of being scalded while fully conscious? This is a reform PETA is attempting to achieve with this campaign. So to me, even though it is easy to make fun of Pamela Anderson, there are more important things to think about.
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