NEWS: No, I don't work at KFC, it's my name.

CULTURE: No, I don't work at KFC, it's my name.

Strange name changes always make the news, and about half the time it is to grab attention. Certainly, that's got to be the case in the name change of PETA staffer Chris Garnett to "KentuckyFriedCruelty.com"

Despite pressure from PETA, the plant in question was cleared of any wrong doing and their workers were cleared by a grand jury last summer. The cause is supported by a lot of celebrities and customers alike: Pamela Anderson has front a campaign for PETA against KFC. The name, er, website explains the name change of Chris, er, KFC.com.

You can even see a picture of his driving license there. It must be handed to him, it is a very effective way of getting people to hear his message. Even if I can't work out which bit would go in the "forename" and "surname" boxes.

sooooo how many army points for someone to change their name to suicidegirls.com?

and I wonder how long it will be before mr. KFC.com changes his name back

As soon as it isn't trendy anymore.

Their honey barbecue sandwiches are really good.

I find thier chicken to be WAY too salty

Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

[Edited on Jan 05, 2006 9:14AM]

switch to honey barbecue.

So, this is like those "Truth" anti-smoking campaigns, specifically designed to take an issue I might be sympathetic to and make me not care by associating it with retards.

teehee.

How do you mistreat a bird that's going to end up fried and in my tummy anyway?

i bet he won't change it back - why bother, people can always call him by his former name - like a nickname

Maybe I have too much faith in humanity, but I bet he'll feel like an asshole once he sobers up. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean he'll immediately change it back, but who knows...

not too sound elitist ,but good luck trying to land a real ( read as , Non Peta ) job with that name.

on a far more interesting note i just learned from that article that the parent company of KFC is called Yum! Brands.

actually , i admire his conviction..it's for a good cause..awareness..at least someone gives a shit and actually does something

From the video (it aired on the news here when it was released) a couple of the employees were video taped kicking the birds, picking bird's up and throwing them against a wall and swing birds by their feet so their head bounced off table tops. They seemed to be enjoying it. Sick Bastards.

I can't believe they got off on cruelty charges. Maybe you can only be cruel to pets or wild animals, not the food supply.

It looks like the only thing he's doing is
hurting the cause. Like most PETA tactics this ends up scaring off just about everybody who isn't already a PETA member. In fact, it helps to reinforce their idea that PETA is largely made up of tools.

I'm against animal cruelty as the next guy, but 99% of the time PETA makes me roll my eyes and walk on. This certainly is a prime example of why.

This is fucking retarded. For one thing, KFC, Popeye's, AND Church's all get their chicken shipped to them from Tyson. As for other chains outside of Texas, I don't know, but my friend (who works at KFC) assures me that all the "cruelty" is taken care of offsite.

See, if they wanted to actually get something done besides make a clever graphic of a recognizable cultural icon brutally murdering a chicken, they could have at least done that much fact-checking. I have nothing against vegetarians of any color or degree, but when I almost have to pull over to the side of the road because my girlfriend wants to throw up all over the dash of my truck for seeing a slaughtered animal on a roadside sign that PETA set up, it kind of draws out those pesky and suspect "I'm a conservative talk-show host" "VegetarianETA::Islam:Taliban" analogies.

Militant (insert name of damn near any cause) sucks. I wish we could all just get along in peace.

It worked, clearly. It got me to read the website.

I used to have a t-shirt that showed "Col. Saunders" holding an axe in one hand and a decapitated bird in the other, spattered with blood. It was not really about any conviction, I just found it amusing. But it is pretty shitty to abuse animals, even those to be used as food. Some might argue to do just that (use for food) is abusive in itself. You will have to figure that one out for yourself. But what those folks in that vid were doing is just wrong.

But it is kind of like the people who work in research labs, (some of them anyway) planting electrodes in monkeys and such. If you can go that far, how much further a stretch is it to become or behave in a really cruel and abrasive/abusive manner? To cross the line, wherever it is drawn. It does happen. You have seen the films, usually only after an ALF raid or something like that.

I could not do that sort of work. We can only hope that those who do will do it in as humane a fashion as possible. Be it research or food production. But it comes as no surprise to me that those folks got off on the cruelty charges. Consider the "rulership" of our country, and remember that shit rolls downhill.

I just came from traffic court. Had my name been Mypoliticaldogma.com I would expect the judge to say something like this: "Alright, Mr. Mypoliticaldogma.com, I'll exercise my judicial discretion and raise your fine from $127.50 to $427.50.

Instead, you heard "Mrblisters, you have suffered enough. Case dismissed!!"

I may be wrong but I believe the idea is that they raise awareness in consumers and try to get them to boycott KFC or wherever, who in response goes to their suppliers and demands better conditions on chicken farms so they can tell everyone it's okay to enjoy the colonel's original recipe again, or somesuch nonsense. I for one would be incredibly amused to see signs proclaiming cruelty-free chicken breast, much like tuna is labeled dolphin safe.

[Edited on Jan 05, 2006 10:50AM]

I had kfc last night.
My roomate asked what I thought of their treatment of their chickens.

I told him they are no longer chickens. I then had some of the best honey bbq wings ever.

Gasp!! You mean they don't actually kill the chickens in the back of the restaurant?? I'm shocked.

I think the point is to force KFC to either buy poultry from less cruel places, or to force Tyson and the other butchers to change some practices.

now i want some popcorn chicken