Oprah’s KFC Free Chicken Charity Stirs Conversation On Swine Flu
Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, May 8th, 2009 in Animal Issues, Food & Drink, Not So Vegetarian, TV Hosts.
If you haven’t heard already, Oprah Winfrey has both shocked and angered animal rights activists across the nation by teaming up with Kentucky Fried Chicken to offer free chicken dinners to every home in America.
KFC is on the “naughty” and not “nice” list with organizations like PETA, due to the way the chickens it uses are treated.
Now, we can add one more sin Oprah is contributing to now that she’s signed a pact with the Colonel devil: swine flu.
Jane Velez-Mitchell and Dr. Gregor of the HSUS said it best: the conditions in factory farms like the ones KFC chickens are kept in are the hub for breeding diseases.
Brian Merchant at Treehugger.com has this to say on the matter:
“I was dismayed to hear that Oprah was helping to push KFC’s free chicken promotion. Wasn’t quite sure why, initially—after all, ‘free food for everyone’ is generally a pretty positive notion. But then I recalled that KFC buys its chicken from Tyson—one of the US’s biggest factory farmers and perpetrator of shady health practices. And then I remembered that Oprah herself did an expose on the cruelty of factory farms , essentially condemning them. And then I realized that the ploy couldn’t have come at a worse time: US factory farms have been confirmed to have played a role in the origin of swine flu.”
“The point isn’t that Oprah screwed up–it’s that we should all be more aware of the practices that lead to the food on our table (or in the takeout window).”
Read what else Brian has to say on Oprah at treehugger.com.
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