Peta and their new unhappy meal!

Started by Mitchman August 8th, 2009 6:43 AM
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Kids hoping to grab a Happy Meal from McDonald's might end up with PETA's Unhappy Meal instead.

The animal rights organization lifted its moratorium on the McCruelty Campaign this year and since June has distributed Chicken McCruelty Unhappy Meals to McDonald's customers outside about a dozen restaurants around the country.

"McDonald's markets its food to children by packaging it in brightly colored boxes with toys," Lindsay Rajt, a spokeswoman for PETA, tells Slashfood. "But most kids really love animals, and if they knew that McDonald's suppliers were breaking the wings and legs of gentle animals like chickens, I think that you'd have to drag kids into McDonald's kicking and screaming."

The campaign, though, has parents "hatin' it."

A PETA protest of a McDonald's in Albany, N.Y., upset parents on Thursday, WXXA-TV reports.

"I don't want my son to be around something like this," parent Stephanie Gipson told the station. "This is not fair for a child."

But Rajt says children have seen worse things than PETA's Unhappy Meal, which comes "stained with blood" and containing a bloody rubber chicken, a cutout of a knife-wielding Ronald McDonald, photos of mutilated animals and a Chicken McCruelty T-shirt.

"Kids deserve to be told the truth and we really do need to give them credit," she says. "The bottom line is that they've really seen much worse in movies and videogames, and we all know that kids empathize with animals."

McDonald's told Slashfood that it expects the humane treatment of animals from its suppliers.

Our goal has always been to lead the industry by bringing about improvements in animal welfare including rigorous, ongoing audits of our suppliers' facilities.

"McDonald's works with leading independent animal welfare experts and makes decisions based upon science to promote continuous improvement in animal welfare as part of our broader sustainable supply chain initiatives," Bob Langert, McDonald's vice president of corporate social responsibility, says in a statement to Slashfood.

"McDonald's continues to support our chicken suppliers' use of both controlled atmosphere stunning (CAS) and electrical stunning. There is no conclusive scientific consensus that one practice is better than the other, however, we recognize that in either method, good management practices are critical," he says. "It is also important to note that in the U.S., there are no large-scale chicken producers that currently use the CAS method, therefore demands to purchase chickens from this method to meet McDonald's supply needs are not viable."

PETA says it worked with McDonald's behind the scenes from 2000 to February 2009 before it re-instituted its McCruelty campaign. A PETA protest was expected Friday afternoon at a restaurant in South Burlington, Vt.
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So yeah. The pic? Oh its glorious:

Wehay lets scare the kiddies!

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Haha, I love the packaging. xD
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As a moderate advocate of animal welfare, I find PETA and their shock tactics pretty sickening to be honest. The parents are right - this isn't fair on children, and targeting impressionable young minds to indoctrine them in PETA's overbearing brand of animal activism is morally bankrupt. The way I see it, PETA care less about the cause of animal welfare itself and simply use it as a cause that they can be unified over. Something they can protest about. It's something for them to rant about, rather than something they honestly care about.

Of course, everyone will have joined them for different reasons, but I find the motives of their leadership questionable at best, and their conflicting and impractical ideals are just crazy. (Advocating zero domestication, not keeping any pets, etc.)

I'll admit to being a little biased by having seen the Bulls*** episode about PETA. =p Although the program is of course terribly one sided, it did bring up some interesting facts about the orginization and their somewhat thoughtless protesting.
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That packaging is amazingly hilarious.

... But animals get treated worse in other ways besides what McDonalds does? XD;
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PETA's Unhappy Meal, which comes "stained with blood" and containing a bloody rubber chicken, a cutout of a knife-wielding Ronald McDonald, photos of mutilated animals and a Chicken McCruelty T-shirt.

Well PETA, looks like you hit a new low.
Giving innocent children Rubber chickens coaxed with fake blood,
Destroying a clown's reputation,
and handing away free anti-McDonald's T-Shirts.

*Claps*

Congratulations, You won the outward "I'm Giving Children Nightmares" award. It seems that you're the new Boogie Men of our time.

Maybe you can actually help your cause for once?
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These PETA people have no lives.
I just hope they don't go bagging on Pokemon....
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These PETA people have no lives.
I just hope they don't go bagging on Pokemon....
Yeah, because we're totally not squeezing them into little metal balls and expecting them to KO each other.
XD

I swear, every time I look at that packaging..XD

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These PETA people have no lives.
I just hope they don't go bagging on Pokemon....
OMG POKEMON = COCKFIGHTING!!!11!!

I think PETA has done some good things in the past, but if they weren't so "extremist" they wouldn't be seen as such a joke now.

I still think their "Sea Kittens" campaign was the funniest so far.

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PETA's Unhappy Meal, which comes "stained with blood" and containing a bloody rubber chicken, a cutout of a knife-wielding Ronald McDonald, photos of mutilated animals and a Chicken McCruelty T-shirt.

Well PETA, looks like you hit a new low.
Giving innocent children Rubber chickens coaxed with fake blood,
Destroying a clown's reputation,
and handing away free anti-McDonald's T-Shirts.

*Claps*

Congratulations, You won the outward "I'm Giving Children Nightmares" award. It seems that you're the new Boogie Men of our time.

Maybe you can actually help your cause for once?
That'll just scare me. Why would they do that to children? I'll just make them go off meat and become a veggie. Which will become bad for all of the butchers out there! Stupid PETA!

And apparently Graceful is still alive after a very long hiatus ♥
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PETA is such a joke, I won't even bother bagging on them. I just have this to say: Chickens are not gentle animals. Chickens are demented hellbeasts that take over the barn and the surrounding area in neatly planned, concentric circles.

(Can you tell that I was raised on a chicken farm and am a bit bitter about it?)

[Edit] Also, if I took my kid to McDonald's and PETA shoved all their bloody propaganda in their face, I'd raise unholy Hell. Don't they have any ethics? o.o;
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[Peta? Epic Fail!]
Well we are animals. Animals kill animals to survive,It's called a food chain! [Unless your a veggie]

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[Peta? Epic Fail!]
Well we are animals. Animals kill animals to survive,It's called a food chain! [Unless your a veggie]
And since vegetables are alive, it's still ending something's life to prolong your own.
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You would be a good prosecutor against PETA by destroying them with just this point. :3
Thank you, but I've tried that same line on other forums and they've discarded it. >>; Something about plants not feeling pain.
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Oh PETA, You never cease to amuse me :>

Only thing they'll succeed in in giving children nightmares , and making them afraid of clowns ._.
Just because kids play bloody video games doesn't mean they won't get scared mukless from mutilated chicken pictures and knife wielding clown
clowns are creepy enough as it is dammit D:<

Thank you, but I've tried that same line on other forums and they've discarded it. >>; Something about plants not feeling pain.

orly?
Well we don't exactly know that :>
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poor plants u_u
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Oh PETA, You never cease to amuse me :>

Only thing they'll succeed in in giving children nightmares , and making them afraid of clowns ._.
Just because kids play bloody video games doesn't mean they won't get scared mukless from mutilated chicken pictures and knife wielding clown
clowns are creepy enough as it is dammit D:<




orly?
Well we don't exactly know that :>
Yeah, I know. I think it's a stupid argument... a cop-out, really. But you can't argue with fanatics. I don't think it matters though, if you're going to kill and eat plants, it's about the same as killing and eating animals. Either way, something's dead.
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PETA, you are so full of yourself I just can't help but laugh out loud.

So we should stop tigers, lions, wolves, bears, fish, sharks, cats, eagles, toucans, alligators, snakes, badgers, foxes, and animals that I don't even know about stop eating meat because they're "killing life"? Welcome to the circle of life, PETA. Enjoy your stay.

Then again, that clown creeped me out anyhow. So it may not be that big of a deal anyhow.

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Most of these posts just make me laugh! PETA I have two words for you -
Eat Chicken
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