Yet More Idiocy From PETA

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PETA Unhappy Meals Targeting Kids
Posted Aug 7th 2009 1:30PM by Sara Bonisteel (RSS feed)
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The McCruelty Unhappy Meal. Photo: PETA
Kids hoping to grab a Happy Meal from McDonald's might end up with PETA's Unhappy Meal instead.

The animal rights organization lifted its moratorium on the McCruelty Campaign this year and since June has distributed Chicken McCruelty Unhappy Meals to McDonald's customers outside about a dozen restaurants around the country.

"McDonald's markets its food to children by packaging it in brightly colored boxes with toys," Lindsay Rajt, a spokeswoman for PETA, tells Slashfood. "But most kids really love animals, and if they knew that McDonald's suppliers were breaking the wings and legs of gentle animals like chickens, I think that you'd have to drag kids into McDonald's kicking and screaming."

The campaign, though, has parents "hatin' it."

A PETA protest of a McDonald's in Albany, N.Y., upset parents on Thursday, WXXA-TV reports.

"I don't want my son to be around something like this," parent Stephanie Gipson told the station. "This is not fair for a child."

But Rajt says children have seen worse things than PETA's Unhappy Meal, which comes "stained with blood" and containing a bloody rubber chicken, a cutout of a knife-wielding Ronald McDonald, photos of mutilated animals and a Chicken McCruelty T-shirt.

"Kids deserve to be told the truth and we really do need to give them credit," she says. "The bottom line is that they've really seen much worse in movies and videogames, and we all know that kids empathize with animals."

McDonald's told Slashfood that it expects the humane treatment of animals from its suppliers.

Our goal has always been to lead the industry by bringing about improvements in animal welfare including rigorous, ongoing audits of our suppliers' facilities.

"McDonald's works with leading independent animal welfare experts and makes decisions based upon science to promote continuous improvement in animal welfare as part of our broader sustainable supply chain initiatives," Bob Langert, McDonald's vice president of corporate social responsibility, says in a statement to Slashfood.

"McDonald's continues to support our chicken suppliers' use of both controlled atmosphere stunning (CAS) and electrical stunning. There is no conclusive scientific consensus that one practice is better than the other, however, we recognize that in either method, good management practices are critical," he says. "It is also important to note that in the U.S., there are no large-scale chicken producers that currently use the CAS method, therefore demands to purchase chickens from this method to meet McDonald's supply needs are not viable."

PETA says it worked with McDonald's behind the scenes from 2000 to February 2009 before it re-instituted its McCruelty campaign. A PETA protest was expected Friday afternoon at a restaurant in South Burlington, Vt.

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[Tsukiyumi]

Tell you one thing (if I ate at McDonald's): if I'm walking into a restaurant, and somebody is shouting at me, I'd ignore them completely. If they touched me... Well, that would be assault, and I would "defend" myself accordingly.

I've seen these a-holes protesting before; they touch people on occasion. I wonder if they have a protest scheduled here...

[Aaron]

I think I'd have to beat them with their own rubber chicken if that happened to us. I don't object to my kids seeing bloody animals and such, I object to them being exposed to it in a manner that might damage them. IE: I want to be the one to explain it, not some bloody hippie loon.

[Nutso]

PETA's Unhappy Meal, which comes "stained with blood" and containing a bloody rubber chicken, a cutout of a knife-wielding Ronald McDonald, photos of mutilated animals and a Chicken McCruelty T-shirt.

It would be so cool if that knife-wielding Ronald McDonald came with a stabbing motion. Kids will have fun for hours with that and the bloody rubber chicken. It's a good starting tool for the young outdoorsman. The photos will teach children that PETA are sickos who get off on collecting pictures of burnt animal genitalia. That's a valuable lesson to learn. The T-shirt? At the rate these kids are getting fatter, they'll outgrow that in no time. Still the T-shirt will be useful as hand-me-downs and eventually a car wash rag.

[Tsukiyumi]

Actually, come to think of it, I'd like to get the knife-wielding Ronald McDonald.

[Mikey]

Let one of these people accost my daughter. Then we'll see about cruelty to animals...

[Monroe]

The campaign, though, has parents "hatin' it."

That's really clever. Anyone else catch that? lol

I love eating animals. They're good to eat and PETA can QQ somewhere else.

[Mikey]

If the good Lord (or the process of evolution) didn't want us to eat cows and chickens, He (it) would have made them much faster or more dangerous.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

If the good Lord (or the process of evolution) didn't want us to eat cows and chickens, He (it) would have made them much faster or more dangerous.

... and less tasty!

[Lt. Staplic]

I'm speechless....

this is just retarded.

[Nickswitz]

If the good Lord (or the process of evolution) didn't want us to eat cows and chickens, He (it) would have made them much faster or more dangerous.

... and less tasty!

That's the way I see it...

But yeah, PETA is full of morons. I wonder if there is a way to post messages on that article, I'm gonna go check...

I just looked at the comments, they were funny....

[Tyyr]

PETA has done more to harm animal rights than a hundred meat packing companies.

[Sionnach Glic]

Considering that PETA kills most of the animals they "rescue", they're just one big fucking group of hypocrites.

[Mikey]

Considering that PETA kills most of the animals they "rescue", they're just one big f***ing group of hypocrites.

Kill them and waste them! At least when an animal is killed on my behalf, it's for a useful reason - like eating them.

[Lt. Staplic]

my dad's side of the family are long time farmers, and as he often says, "Cow's are dumb, ugly creatures, and we're doing them a favor by killing them and eating them."