As part of its campaign against KFC, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently produced 2,000 “Cruel Colonel” dolls. The dolls are bobbleheads showing a Colonel Sanders character with a bloody knife and chicken.
According to the a PETA press release,
The 6-inch, painted ceramic dolls will be handed out at select protests across the country and are a clever way to remind people about KFC’s cruel treatment of chickens. Ask the bobblehead colonel if he likes to torture animals—and see what his response is!
In The Roanoke Times, the Center for Consumer Freedom’s David Martosko suggested that PETA activist might hand the bobbleheads out to children, “which fits right into their ‘Let’s get ’em young attitude.'” That prompted PETA” Joe Hinkle to lie to Roanoke Times reporter Mike Hudson. Hudson reported,
Hinkle says PETA “never hands out things to children under the age of 13 without parents’ permission.”
Hinkle is a liar. In May 2004, PETA sent activists to Capitol Middle School in Baton Rouge to hand out PETA’s “Chicken Chumps” trading cards. Here’s what the Talon News reported,
Students at Capitol Middle School in Baton Rouge could soon be trading some new “stomach-turning” cards while waiting for the bus thanks to an outreach effort by one of America’s leading animal rights organizations.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will be handing out “Chicken Chumps” trading cards to students as they leave school on Thursday after the school refused to allow the group to give its “Hidden Lives of Chickens” presentation during school hours.
PETA’s Vegan Campaign Coordinator Matt Rice will hand the cards out to kids at 2:10 p.m. as they leave school. He will be joined by two activists. One will be in a chicken costume holding a sign saying “I’m No Nugget,” and another will be wearing a television that will show chickens being slaughtered to make the nuggets the children love to eat.
“Kids would chuck their buckets of chicken into the nearest trash can if they knew how birds suffer in the meat industry,” Rice said on Wednesday.
Most of the children at Capitol Middle School, which serves 6th-8th grade, would be under 13 (not to mention its just funny how half the time they say they don’t target children at all, half the time they do, and the other half they only target kids 13 and over — nothing with PETA ever adds up).
Sources:
PETA Doll ruffles KFC’s feathers. Mike Hudson, The Roanoke Times, January 8, 2005.
Animal Rights Activists Again Target School Kids. Charles Mahaleris, Talon News, May 20, 2004.