12-31-2005, 07:28 AM
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He Legally Changed His Name To KentuckyFriedCruelty.com
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Deciding to make a statement every time he’s asked for or signs his name, a 19-year-old PETA staff member—formerly known as Chris Garnett—has legally changed his name to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com, the same name as PETA’s Web site that gives the lowdown on KFC’s refusal to eliminate the worst abuses of chickens raised and killed to fill its buckets. The former Dover Plains, New York, resident and current Street Team coordinator of peta2—PETA’s youth division—has the official state papers and driver’s license to prove it. His parents—who have been supportive since he went vegan at age 15—were a little shocked at first, but although they insist on still calling him Chris, they’ve accepted the change.
KentuckyFriedCruelty.com’s advocacy for animals has been the defining force in his life since he was a child. His father would take him fishing, but when he saw the animals struggling at the end of a hook, he insisted on taking up bird-watching instead. He started the first animal rights group at both his high school and college, fought for the right of students to refuse dissection, and pressured cafeteria officials to offer more vegetarian options. Under KentuckyFriedCruelty.com’s watchful eye, peta2’s Street Team has grown to more than 100,000 dedicated young activists across the country who will mobilize in defense of animals at a moment’s notice.
Why on Earth did KentuckyFriedCruelty.com feel the need to change his identity? What’s so bad about KFC? The more than 850 million chickens killed each year for KFC are tortured in ways that would result in felony cruelty-to-animals charges if dogs or cats were the victims—from being drugged and bred to grow so large that many become crippled from the weight of their massive upper bodies to having their throats slit and being scalded to death while they’re still conscious. KFC ignored the recommendations for animal welfare improvements made by members of its own advisory panel, five of whom have since resigned after being ignored for years. KFC advisor Adele Douglass told the Chicago Tribune that KFC “never had any meetings. They never asked any advice, and then they touted to the press that they had this animal-welfare advisory committee. I felt like I was being used.”
KentuckyFriedCruelty.com joins the growing ranks of consumers, celebrities, and scholars—including actor Pamela Anderson, The Rev. Al Sharpton, Sir Paul McCartney, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama—who are helping out in PETA’s campaign to force KFC to end its abusive treatment of chickens.
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Is this guy for real? If so, I think he's gone too far.  |
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