We understand PETA’s mission, but sometimes their tactics just go too far…
PETA and McDonald’s have long been arch-nemeses, but after a long period of relative calm, the animal rights group has ratcheted up the rhetoric recently. Its tactic: Passing out “Unhappy Meals,” which include a rubber chicken stained with fake blood, a small paper cutout showing Ronald McDonald wielding a bloody knife and a T-shirt bearing the logo “McCruelty.”
Needless to say, not everyone is pleased with the approach. At a McDonald’s restaurant in Albany, N.Y., some parents fumed when confronted with PETA’s message. “I don’t want my son to be around something like this,” one mother, who’d brought her son to eat lunch at the fast-food chain, told Albany’s Fox 23 News. “This is not fair for a child.”
But PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman doesn’t seem terribly concerned about the criticism. “If kids knew how unhappy the chickens who are killed for Happy Meals really are, they’d lose their lunch,” Reiman said in a statement. “And if parents don’t want them to know, then the decent thing to do is to refuse to take them to eat [at McDonald's].”
The issue at the heart of PETA’s complaint is the method by which chickens are killed to produce McDonald’s menu items such as Chicken McNuggets. Read more…
Source: Los Angeles Times
Tags: animal cruelty, Animal Lovers, animal rights, animals
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