This weekend, as I listened to Fox News, (because I'm cool like that) I learned a little something about PETA that has pissed me off again.
PETA has started an ad campaign called McCruelty, against McDonalds for serving meat from animals that have been killed in a very cruel way. If PETA believes that animals are being killed inhumanly then fine. I think they have the right to campaign against it if they want, but I'm disturbed by the way they went about portraying McDonald's and Ronald McDonald especially to small children.
This is from Mccruelty.com Peta's website against McDonalds. This is what they are upset over and why they started this campaign.
"In the slaughterhouses of McDonald's U.S. chicken suppliers, birds are dumped out of their transport crates and hung upside-down in metal shackles, which can result in broken bones, extreme bruising, and hemorrhaging. Workers have the opportunity to abuse live birds, and birds have their throats cut while they are still conscious. Many birds are immersed in tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain."
I love animals, don't get me wrong. My chocolate children are my obsession and I would Hurt anyone who was mean to them, but a Chicken is not a Dog. I wonder if anyone at PETA has ever been around a chicken. They have a Brain the size of a pea and it is very hard for me to believe that these chickens that are being treat cruelly have any idea whatsoever that they are even being hurt.
We had a bunch of chickens for awhile, Chick Chick was our pet chicken. She was so unaware of anything going on that she got stepped on by one of the horses like three times. She would also casually lay an egg while walking across the barnyard. She was totally unaware that she was even alive. SO I'm pretty sure that she would have not and Idea one that she was being killed in an inhumane way.
Anyway I think PETA does have a right to be upset by the way these chickens are treated though, as I have a right to believe it doesn't matter. (They are going to die anyway...I guess i have no heart.) I don't believe that the worker should abuse the chickens for fun though, as PETA is implying. BUT PETA went a little to far with their ads.
Do Children really need to see Ronald McDonald holding a bloody knife holding up a Happy Meal? Kids Love Happy Meals. This would give me night mares if I was still a child. It actually will probably give me night mares anyway
This is just ridiculous. I can't believe they stooped this low.

I understand that they are for the Humane treatment for animals but come on people, lets not horrify children in the process. Thanks,

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