Kentucky Fried Protest
February 25th, 2006General
I had lunch at KFC today. Meanwhile, there was a Peta protest in front of that particular restaurant.
Now, I love animals. I have many dogs as friends. So I can see where they’re coming from. However, KFC wins this battle vs. Peta in my heart and mind for these reasons:
“Death is cruel. Everything that we eat for food has to die,” said one smirking KFC customer today as he watched the protesters from inside. Eating meat involves killing animals. There’s no way around that. Is it morally correct? I don’t know. Is it healthy? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. Is it delicious? Totally.
Pamela Anderson, God bless her, is okay in my book. But she’s not someone I’d consider a political role model. The Dalai Llama, yes. Gandhi, yes. MLK Jr., yes. Because all of these people are champions of great social causes. They all fought to bring the attention of the world to the suffering of their people. Pamela Anderson was on “Baywatch”. Which brings me to my third point:
You know who people are really cruel towards? Other people. Everything that is being done to a KFC chicken is being done to some poor soul somewhere in the world. Torture, starvation, and genocide are being perpetrated on other human beings right now, and for reasons far less important than the procurement of food. Can we work on that first? Because, frankly…
People are more important that animals. I can’t stress that enough. There are some who would argue with that, but if I had to choose between saving the life of a person and that of a pig, I’d choose the person. Why? Because people can create art, music, and stories. They create culture and have imaginations. They invent things. They fill the world with humanity in the spiritual sense. And that’s a good thing. It even outweighs our inhumanity.
Finally, KFC is delicious. I love it. It tastes good and it’s horrible for my health, but it’s yummy. I eat there once every two weeks or so, which is already probably too much. But if you’re going to protest KFC, protest it for its labor practices, its unhealthiness, its environmental impact, all these things that actually affect human beings.
I love animals. But I love human beings even more.
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2 Comments
Fuck yeah. I’m kinda with you on that. I hate animals. I just hate humans a little bit less.
people are animals too. gimme some crackling human infant with a side of jalapeno poppers and some hot sauce.