TERRE HAUTE — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protested Saturday morning on the sidewalk in front of Terre Haute’s Wabash Avenue Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.
PETA accuses the restaurant chain of “torturing? chickens by the millions each year.
“We sent an undercover investigator into KFC’s ‘supplier of the year,’? said Lindsay Rajt, a Kentucky-based PETA activist who led Saturday’s protest. “Our investigator found people stomping on live animals, tearing them apart, spitting tobacco juice into their faces,? she said. “You’ve got to ask yourself, ‘if this is the best KFC has to offer, what does the worst look like?’?
PETA is calling for a boycott of KFC.
The protesters, who included a young PETA volunteer from Kentucky dressed as a chicken walking with a crutch, and at least five Wabash Valley supporters, handed out PETA literature on KFC as well as a PETA DVD featuring model/actress Pamela Anderson, the Rev. Al Sharpton, and actor Alec Baldwin. “If people knew how KFC treats their chickens, they’d never eat another drumstick,? the DVD jacket quotes Anderson saying.
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