To shawmutt,
I am actually an avid member of both the WWF and Audubon Society.
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Brain I really think your response says it best, and you are right human interaction and domestication of animals has taken place for nearly as long as humans have walked on planet Earth. Even intellegent primates can be taught to domesticate and care for lower animals; as can be seen with the work surronding Koko the gorilla.
Anyhow I think as I have stated before Peta, like any group that has taken a radicalist stance has good and bad members. I was dis-satisfied overall with Karin's stance on the issues and I honestly believe it is literally a waste of time to write any more letters to her or any other of Peta's admin.
The quote I have under each post in my opinoin says it best and who better to make a valid point about society than Ghandi. That is one reason I am against the things that have taken place at KFC. I dont have a problem harvesting chickens as food even for a large restaraunt chain, although I do have a problem alloying employees to torture those animals for fun and literally hold contests seeing how many times it takes a chicken to hit a cement (and finally die) wall when being thrown by a person. If you dont believe KFC employees took part in such actions a quick search via google will turn over actual video of it taking place at one of thier plants - and trust me it turns most anyone's stomach.
When Peta asked KFC to put a stop to this treatment they declined, and have since said they will not change thier chicken processing procedures at all. The main reason I wont eat at KFC however comes not from thier treatment of chickens so much as the fact that thier birds are given hormones and other growth acceleration that has been linked to cancer and a variety of other illnesses in the animals that consume them. In addition to that KFC plants keep thier chickens in such inhumane and dirty surrondings that they often feed off the carcasses of other chickens and thier own waste and I personally dont want that degree of meat going into my stomach.