Another in the WTF category

F1nut
F1nut Posts: 50,461
edited August 2009 in The Clubhouse
PETA Unhappy Meals Targeting Kids

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.

I predict there will be PETA blood spilled over this one. What is wrong with those people!?!
Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    edited August 2009
    I like the honey mustard sauce.
    Why haven't the PETA folks gone after Chic-fil-A or Zaxbys or Buffalo Wild Wings. Or is this another F*ck Y'all thread?
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,380
    edited August 2009
    they just need a good Porterhouse on the barby and the smell alone will cure them. Why can't the real PETA show up at some of their protests... I speak of course of the People for the Eating of Tasty Animals...
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,380
    edited August 2009
    lightman1 wrote: »
    I like the honey mustard sauce.
    Why haven't the PETA folks gone after Chic-fil-A or Zaxbys or Buffalo Wild Wings. Or is this another F*ck Y'all thread?


    seems like wherever you go there is a sh!tstorm of some kind... now you got PETA all stired up again.:p
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  • emoxley
    emoxley Posts: 205
    edited August 2009
    I'm a member of PETA..............
    People Eating Tasty Animals
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited August 2009
    I've asked this before - how is this allowed? It's literally harassing CHILDREN, tantamount to domestic terrorism. Someone needs to really raise a stink and take those whackjobs DOWN.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • apphd
    apphd Posts: 1,514
    edited August 2009
    While I do not agree with the way McDonalds marketing targets kids, I don't like the way Disney somewhat exploits its target audience to sell more. Smart business, just think it puts added pressure on me as a parent to keep it at an acceptable (to me) level. I know goes with the territory, but have you spent any time on a Disney channel or Disney .com lately? Maybe I just did not realize how bad they have gotten, until forced to with the birth of my son.

    That said, I can't believe this can go on. For one thing if when they said "outside a dozen restaurants" if they were on restaurant property they could have been arrested with trespass. It also seems as though there could be some type of law being broken with the type of material the Unhappy Meals contained being handed out to children (which I'm pretty sure included very small children. It seems as though PETA has ratcheted up there efforts and targeting of young children which we can only hope that it will back fire and lead to their demise.
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited August 2009
    But WHAT is in those PETA Unhappy meals......:confused:




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    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • POIDOG
    POIDOG Posts: 391
    edited August 2009
    People who throw rocks at glass houses.....well you know the rest :eek:

    http://www.petakillsanimals.com/index.cfm

    I love honey mustard on McNuggets :cool:
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited August 2009
    apphd wrote: »
    ...It also seems as though there could be some type of law being broken with the type of material the Unhappy Meals contained being handed out to children (which I'm pretty sure included very small children. It seems as though PETA has ratcheted up there efforts and targeting of young children which we can only hope that it will back fire and lead to their demise.

    I would imagine that McDonalds, lke many restaurants have "No Soliciting" signs posted-To me this would qualify.
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  • POIDOG
    POIDOG Posts: 391
    edited August 2009
    One last one to contemplate :(

    http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/docs/040726_mommykills.pdf
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  • messiah
    messiah Posts: 1,790
    edited August 2009
    Members of PETA taste best grilled, and served medium-rare. What's next PETP (people for the etical treatment of plants)? God was nice enough to give us all of these animals to eat. To not eat them would be disrespectful, don't you think?
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited August 2009
    "Animals have rights.....To garlic and butter"- Ted Nugent:p
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • potee
    potee Posts: 610
    edited August 2009
    Are they wearing thier leather shoes and belts while doing all of this stuff?
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  • JohnLocke88
    JohnLocke88 Posts: 1,150
    edited August 2009
    emoxley wrote: »
    I'm a member of PETA..............
    People Eating Tasty Animals

    Likewise... every time I see Peta do something like this... I always order a big fat steak or something similarly "I'm eating an animal"ish.

    By PETAs logic, we should always tell little kids the ins and outs of sexual reproduction at this age as we shouldn't "lie to them."

    Dumbasses... why don't they get a new cause already, or kill themselves... either would be fine by me.
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