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PETA Fumes at KFC Offer of Statue to Cubs

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 13, 2009 4:35 PM CDT
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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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metalworldorder
Jul 11, 2009 8:09 AM CDT
Why is it a slippery slope where if you're a meat eater, you automatically support animal torture? No one supports the torture of animals. If PETA ruled the world, there'd be no pets, no seeing eye dogs, and definitely no meat to eat. But what would happen when animal populations rise past a sustainable level and you find deer dead everywhere from starvation? Is it more humane for hunters to do what they do and keep a population in check, or to let "nature run its course" and see animals huddling together as they starve? Having seen that--and hunted my own animals--I can say it's way more humane to eat meat than to not. And another thing: it's okay for animals to hunt each other, yet man can't? Did we somehow remove ourselves from the animal pecking order by setting up institutions and governments? We're still animals; we just happen to be at the top of the food chain. And sure, trying to stop animal torture is a great ideal, but why not stop human torture first? Bah, I dunno.
riffran
Mar 15, 2009 5:08 AM CDT
I fear you may be transposing guilt with ridicule.......I utterly despise the act of animal cruelty, or cruelty to people for that matter. And any animal I hunt and shoot, or catch, I kill quickly to minimise any suffering I do not kill for sport, or trophy racks, ect.....but as a omnivore, I eat meat as well as vegatables, and feel no guilt.....good try at psychoanalysis, but your premise is based on unsubstantiated precie
riffran
Mar 14, 2009 12:53 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

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