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PETA Fumes at KFC Offer of Statue to Cubs

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(Newser) – The recent recovery of a statue of KFC’s Col. Sanders from a Japanese river is said to have ended a curse on a baseball team there. Which gave the company a clever idea: offer the effigy to the notably hexed Chicago Cubs, Deadspin reports. PETA strenuously objects. “If one irritated goat could cause a decades-long curse, just imagine what billions of angry chickens could do,” the animal-rights organization writes.

Wrigley Field in Chicago.
Wrigley Field in Chicago.   (AP Photo)
A Colonel Sanders statue which was found in a river is pictured in Osaka, western Japan.
A Colonel Sanders statue which was found in a river is pictured in Osaka, western Japan.   (AP Photo)
PETA activists walk past a KFC outlet with a giant replica of a crippled chicken.
PETA activists walk past a KFC outlet with a giant replica of a crippled chicken.   (AP Photo)
Workers pull back the tarp from the outfield at Wrigley Field.
Workers pull back the tarp from the outfield at Wrigley Field.   (AP Photo)
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lrm
Mar 13, 09 4:47 PM CDT
Go away, PETA! You are so stupid! If you want to help animals, go to the ASPCA, not this wacko group. Reply
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riffran
Mar 13, 09 7:53 PM CDT
For a group that is so animal freindly, their antics sure seem to get the opposite response. Derision, dismissal, and ridicule.....keep up the *ahem* good work fellas....signed Riff...Founder of PETABABY......people eat the animals baked and barbecued yummm......rofl Reply
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paul123
Mar 13, 09 11:55 PM CDT
Meat is murder....tasty, tasty murder. Reply
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Doctor_Zaius
Mar 14, 09 1:07 PM CDT
I belong to PWEETA, People Who Enjoy Eating Tasty Animals. Reply
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Addyp
Mar 14, 09 1:25 PM CDT
As long as you'd be wiling to hunt or kill the animals yourself I don't see anything wrong with meat eating. Its the people who eat meat but wouldn't hunt or kill the animal themselves that make me sick. Reply
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