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Recent News
October 30, 2003
Group gives out veggie info at school
Eighth-grader Melissa Castro on Tuesday was surprised by the man wearing a chicken suit standing outside Bassett Middle School, but embraced the vegetarian message the fake poultry conveyed.
October 29, 2003
Bicycle-riding PETA protester visits Harrisburg
HARRISBURG - A woman bicycling across the United States to protest the treatment of chickens in factories made a protest stop at the Harrisburg KFC Monday morning.
PETA plans shareholder campaign against restaurant company
DALLAS - An animal-rights group that has pressured fast-food companies is turning its attention to Brinker International Inc., owner of casual-dining chains including Chili's.
PETA Protest Disrupts Middle School
"These are to let you know that chickens are our friends they're not our food. We don't eat our friends do we?" This was the message waiting for kids after class outside Basset Middle School today.
October 28, 2003
Disease threat to Christmas turkeys
Britain's turkey farmers are preparing against a disease which could potentially decimate their Christmas stock. It is feared the liver-damaging disease blackhead, which has already attacked flocks in Germany, France and the Netherlands, could be heading towards the UK.
Principal objects to PETA's chicken cruelty lesson
When PETA representatives went to Butterfield Elementary School yesterday to give students a lesson in alleged cruelty in raising chickens used by KFC, they were the ones who got a lesson
October 27, 2003
Pam Anderson seeks KFC meeting
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Former "Baywatch" star and animal-rights activist Pamela Anderson sent a letter Monday to the CEO of the parent company of KFC seeking a meeting to discuss what critics say is the company's abusive treatment of chickens.
Pamela Anderson Wants to Meet KFC Heads
NEW YORK - Pamela Anderson wants to meet with the chief executive officer of Kentucky Fried Chicken's parent company to discuss what she calls "reasonable, positive changes for KFC's chickens."
October 21, 2003
Whole Foods pledges to be more humane
Whole Foods Market on Tuesday will announce plans to become the first major grocery chain to adopt humane animal treatment standards.
The move follows nearly two years of intense pressure from two animal rights groups that have previously persuaded the fast-food giants from McDonald's to Burger King to improve standards.
October 17, 2003
Pamela Anderson takes on KFC
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Former "Baywatch" star and animal-rights activist Pamela Anderson has sent a scathing letter to KFC accusing it of abusing millions of chickens and urging a consumer boycott of the fast-food franchise.
October 16, 2003
Baywatch babe Pam Anderson joins fast-food chicken "cruelty" crusade
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hollywood bombshell Pamela Anderson (news) has joined an animal rights crusade against fast-food giant KFC for allegedly allowing chicken cruelty, a US rights group said.
Animal activists try to 'chicken'children out of eating poultry
Savannah, GA -- Chances are having McNuggets for dinner Wednesday night left some Gadsden Elementary students weepy. Two animal activists urged children to "kick the bucket" by handing out chicken trading cards to students as they left the May Street school Wednesday.
October 14, 2003
New Safety Rules Fail to Stop Tainted Meat
AUGUSTA, Ga. Government inspectors monitoring the automated processing line at the Shapiro Packing meat plant here over the past three years repeatedly discovered sides of beef mottled with cattle manure, a host for bacteria that can be deadly to consumers.
PETA fights pig treatment at meeting
DURHAM -- Charlene Edgerton's opinions on the mistreatment of factory farm swine were as large as the furry, pink pig costume she donned Monday in protest of the International Swine Housing Conference
PETA activists make pitch to save pigs
DURHAM -- As more than 400 agricultural specialists from around the world gathered at Durham's Sheraton Imperial Hotel on Monday to discuss better ways to raise animals and crops, three animal-rights activists, one of them dressed as a pig, staged a small protest outside.
October 09, 2003
Animal group unveils shocking footage of KFC cruelty to chickens
BANGALORE, India, (AFP) - Animal rights group PETA Thursday unveiled video footage portraying cruelty meted out to chickens at an Indian farm which supplies Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and launched a new campaign for the closure of the fast food firm.
October 07, 2003
Norman High grad not chicken to take on KFC
Hes internationally known for his sometimes controversial work with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals but Bruce Friedrich traces his political advocacy roots all the way back to Norman.
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