Meatless Mouthful: Dude, They Fooled Oprah!
Written by Vegetarian Star on May 7th, 2009 in Animal Issues, Meatless Mouthful, TV Hosts.
“I believe Oprah had no idea that KFC has refused to take any action to stop its suppliers from scalding birds alive and breaking birds’ wings and legs during live shackling.”
—-Ingrid Newkirk, President and co-founder of PETA, on why Oprah Winfrey chose to supply America with free chicken from KFC, after featuring a documentary on the horrors of chicken factory farm abuse.
via Ecorazzi.com
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May 7th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
I think people aren’t realizing that Oprah is not a big time animal activist. She really is a publicity whore (sorry for the language). She featured theses episodes on animal cruelty and such partly because she cares about animals, but largely because it’s a much talked about issue today.
While she’s not an animal jerk, I don’t think we should be elevating this woman to activist yet. Not someone who just follows a vegan diet for 3 weeks on a fad.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Yeah she will do anything for publicity so she can laugh all the way to the bank.