Martin Luther King Day press demo at Oshkosh KFC

A message from Steve Barney

MLK Day Press Demo at Oshkosh KFC
Date: Monday January 16, 2006
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location: KFC Restaurant, 1805 Jackson St. (corner of Jackson and Murdock),
Oshkosh, WI

Members of the Ethical Community of Oshkosh:

Please make an extra effort to join me for a special PRESS DEMO this MLK Day, at the KFC restaurant in Oshkosh, to make a strong statement to the press on the application of the ethical principle on which human equality rests, or The Golden Rule, to farmed animals - including chickens.

Recommended Reading:

KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) Does Chickens Wrong


Petition for Poultry


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Martin Luther King Day press demo at Oshkosh KFC
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 13 2006 @ 05:35 PM MST
Great. Martin Luther King Jr. would be so very proud to have his name used in the name of chickens! We should probably take the day to continue the work toward equality of HUMANS on MLK day. I think you have stepped over the edge on this one! Now, pass me the chicken tenders.

Martin Luther King Day press demo at Oshkosh KFC
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 14 2006 @ 01:44 AM MST
For God's Sake, Man! They are CHICKENS!

News Flash for you: They DO NOT have "Rights" as enumerated in the Constitution! Neither do any other animals except homo sapiens.

Scald them alive in water at a slaughterhouse, or just whack their heads like Ted Nugent does on Sunday nights, they all taste the same.

Having killed a chicken or several over the years myself, I can tell you this in all honestly: None of them, not one single one, has ever said a word to me about not getting killed and eaten. Not ONE WORD! Can anybody else here say that they've heard a chicken say a single word in protest? I thought not.

If God didn't want us to eat them, why did he make them taste so good, especially with barbeque sauce?

Martin Luther King Day press demo at Oshkosh KFC
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 14 2006 @ 05:17 AM MST
I prefer them slowly roasted over a spit, without the feathers, of course. And please...use poultry seasoning and a little salt instead of the BBQ sauce. It brings out more of their natural flavor.

Now on to a more important question: Do chickens have lips, or don't they?

Martin Luther King Day press demo at Oshkosh KFC
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 14 2006 @ 12:16 PM MST
I find your comment and the one before it about how they're only chickens, disgusting and in terribly poor taste. You lack any semblance of compassion and you attempts at humor at the expense of animals being treated this inhumanely is appalling. But then again, Jeffrey Dahmer found certain humans tasty too.

Martin Luther King Day press demo at Oshkosh KFC
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 14 2006 @ 11:08 AM MST
If you are so correct about animals not having rights, as you put it, then please explain to us why there are certain animal protection laws in place in every single state in the union and more being placed on the books every month it seems. Maybe the word "rights" isn't the best choice of words, but in the year 2006 there really is no reason to not be able to kill animals humanely when being used for food purposes. I would be ashamed to have someone in the same race as me if they could watch the horrible images portrayed in the videos and not feel anything but disgust for the manner in which those chickens were being treated.

Martin Luther King Day press demo at Oshkosh KFC
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 20 2006 @ 02:57 PM MST
Actually, farmed animals, particularly chickens, have no real legal protection. For an analysis of state and federal law on farmed animal welfare, see the link to "Foxes In The Hen House" on this page:

Animal Welfare Advocacy
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Martin Luther King Day press demo at Oshkosh KFC
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 20 2006 @ 03:51 PM MST
We're not talking about that. We're talking about a company being responsibe enough to adopt something humane on its own as others have done. There should be such a thing as a corporate conscience. We shoudl not have to adopt laws for thigns that should be common-sense. But if they can't do it on their own maybe we should.

Martin Luther King Day press demo at Oshkosh KFC
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 21 2006 @ 01:49 PM MST
I agree with you in spirit, but please allow me to fill you in on some of the facts of the matter. Things have actually been going in the opposite direction ("Un-American about Animals" , "A Buoyant Market for Ethics" ). The reason the animal welfare orgs in the US are focusing so much on corporate responsibility is that, historically, the political scene has been completely intransigent for the last 3 decades, in regard to the welfare of farmed animals. The last farmed animal welfare bill to hit the floor of Congress was the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1978 (which the USDA susequently interpreted as excluding chickens and birds in general - 95% of the animals slaughtered for food in the US). The major achievements on that front, in the US, have been in persuading some of the largest corporate consumers of animals, such as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and Safeway Grocery, to voluntarily adopt animal welfare requirements. These achievements trace back to the verdict of the McLibel Trial (1997), a libel trial about a leaflet which criticised McD's for various things, including cruelty to animals. McDonald's was found to be "culpably responsible" for numerous "cruel practices" of the animal ag (slavery) industry .

The exceptions are states that have a citizen's initiative process (that does not include Wisconsin), which has allowed citizens to overcome the intransigence of the politicians by petitioning to put a referendum question on the ballot; that is, direct democracy. The first major breakthrough by this approach came in 2002 in the State of Florida, where a majority of the citizen voters directly amended that state's constitution to ban the sow crate for pigs - a body sized pen not unlike the veal crate which many of us are probably more familiar with (Wisconsin is the leading veal producer in the US). Here is a descriptive article on that amendment and the sow crate, by a former
speechwriter for President GW Bush:

"Don't tolerate the cruelty on hog farms"
By MATTHEW SCULLY
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