My Boyfriend's Tombstone January 15, 2008

I live right by that cemetary.
It's a shame they made you take it down.

wow O: thats trippy, man if only they could only see how cruel KFC is && tear down every single one of them, Thankfully near my house they already tore one down, slowly && with time hopefully all go down.

thats such a cool idea.
what did the poem say?

I think your boyfriend is sexy! ;)

wow, that's really cool. maybe someday humanity will grow out of needing meat and loose those wimpy front teeth, and grow an extra stomach so we can reguratate and chew our own cud!

Nice! I would deffinatly have wanted to see it!

thats cool but can they really make you take it down you bought it fairly . you should have held your ground !

well obviously KFC has something to hide if they get so defensive about it. I mean people should know what they are eating if they go to KFC. Freedom of Speech is one of our rights, we should exercise that right and get the truth out there!
GO PETA!!!!

haha priceless GO PETA!! keep up the amaizing work one day ill work for you guys =]
Love,
Carrisa

That sounds like a cool idea. Maybe we could come up with other sweet things to raise awareness like that.

That's pretty trippy that the poem spelled that out. [: But I think it's completely unfair that they made you take it down. I wholeheartedly agree that what KFC is doing is an abomination. I never liked KFC to begin with, this just strengthens my resolve. A KFC near my house was just 'renovated' too. It's disgusting. I wish the place would be torn down

what did the poem say ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I think you should of kept the stone up..
Let them complain or whatever..

It says:

Kind
Friend of
Chickens

Today we honor your memory
Our love for you continues
Rest in peace.
Those suffering and
Unable to move
Remember you.
Each one striving for
Salvation.

Brother,
In us as in you
Remain
Dreams for The
Souls of the voiceless.

very clever, but unfortunately i love kfc. i think the chicken tastes great and you cant beat the biscuits. but i think torturing animals is completely wrong, and haven't eaten there in a year and a half. they should just stop with the horrible treatment so i can go back. i have a wuestion for the vegetarians in the group. why do you feel the need to preach vegetarianism? i cant eat meat somewhere without one of you telling me that i am a horrible person and should stop eating meat. its not like i am telling you that vegetables like corn are the reason that the U.S.A's economy is crappy. leave us meat eaters alone, most of us care how our food is treated and killed.

isn't that going a lil far? i mean PETA is great about animal rights but I think they are a little too agressive we need to bring understanding through example and cooperative mutual coordination.

Down with KFC

i surely like the poem ! but yes i agree you should have stood your ground? i don't get how they could make you remove the stone? please explain what grounds they had when you purchased the lot and the stone?

You guys are f***ing retarded

As cool as the poem was, the fact that it was in a graveyard was a bit uncouth. It would be like hanging a meet your meat poster or some such in the sanctuary of a church. There are some places where everything but what is at hand should be put aside. When I visit a graveyard, its generally to visit a loved one, and I don't need to be greeted by that kind of thing while doing it. Plus, I doubt the original Sanders did anything like what is done to the chickens nowadays.

go peta!

Sanders sold the Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation in 1964, although he remained its corporate spokesman until his death. In 1971 he sued Heublein Inc. (the KFC parent company at the time) over alleged misuse of his image in promoting products he had not helped develop. In 1975 Heublein Inc. unsuccessfully sued Sanders for libel after he publicly referred to their gravy as "sludge" with a "wallpaper taste".

As you can see he sold the company BEFORE it got this bad, sure i don't believe in eating meat but
I'm pretty sure he did not want all of this to happen. Don't you think its kind of rude to put something that against him next to his final resting place?!?!?!?!

i totally agree, that is pretty disrespectful. Sure he started the company, but i doubt he wanted things t be hadnled the way they have been, plus, that's his grave. It's almost sick.

That's so cool, just think of how many people saw that and didn't understand it so they went and Googled it.

oh that rocks! sure it was a un-religiouse and all to put it in a grave yard but how do the authorothies know it purposly said " KFC TORTURES BIRDS" i mean honestly!!! Maybe a guy named Matt Prescott died there and he wuz a poet who loved animals and the grave just happended to be there. It could happen!!! Meat sucks!It says:

Kind
Friend of
Chickens

Today we honor your memory
Our love for you continues
Rest in peace.
Those suffering and
Unable to move
Remember you.
Each one striving for
Salvation.

Brother,
In us as in you
Remain
Dreams for The
Souls of the voiceless.
that rocks- stay vegeterian- olivia

this is so inspiring. dont listen to those people saying this is bad and its his final resting place blah blah. i think that it was a great poem and it will catch alot of attention. sure peta, myself and other people like us are crazy about animal rights but its doing so much good in the world. you think there would be anywhere as many vegetarians or vegans in the world without them? i know peta inspired me with alot of my lifestyle choices. bottom line: peta gets shit done.

you're my hero!

Yes it is his final resting place, and I agree, if not well thought it it seems like a disrespectful gesture. However, it also being said in posts, that he had sold the company and had complaints about it, he may just have been all for a move like this. If you think about it.

We'll never know, but it's a pleasant and motivating thought to think that just maybe (hopefully), in a case like this, he'd be on our side. At least I think so. :)

Someone had asked on here too, why vegetarians and vegans feel the need to push thier beliefs on people who eat meat. Not all of us do. I will tell people that I am, and a lot of the time they will ask ME questions, of course I am more than willing to state my case, as would most veggies I'd think. I never critisize meat eaters though. I use to be one too, a lot of us where at some time. Everyone makes up thier own minds about it, but I definately promote switching to vegetarianism or veganism, I've never felt more healthy since I have, and it's better for the animals too. ^_^

Im recently vegetarian thanks to peta's "Meet your Meat" video I think that this was an awesome idea and down with kfc. Though i dont think eating meat is wrong i just chose not to because of the treatment.i dont care if those around me eat meat though, I have already convinced my boyfriend to go veg. i plan to eventually convince the world. hopefully peta will help. if im only 16 and can see that this is wrong then maybe everyone else can.

PETA is good for the soal.It changes the world!

Ok you may have a point to make but i think it was too far to do that beside the Colonel's grave, it's a total lack of respect. As someone else above said, he sold the company before it got bad, so it's hardly his fault is it?

we have to do something, for all the killed animals, but what? al the things are unfair

okay, i'm not even vegetarian or vegan but i refuse to eat chicken, period, especially KFC's. it's disgusting. i'm the only person in my house who won't eat it. The others say "who cares, they are only animals" when animals have feelings too. they should have kept that grave there.

Oh Thats So Cool, Good Job,
You should have put a rubber chicken underneath or something and been like see, there is a body
¬¬ , are they allowed to make you take it down?
hmf.
And why are people against peta2 even bothering to be here, bit of a waste of time dontcha think?

xxxx

kfc is the best place to eat chicken and after seeing those videos made me laugh so much now but hey you know as the colonal used to say finger licking good :D

Wow, thts rly cool (:
But wht I wanna know is why & the
hell are the ppl who don't care about
any of this, even on here? I mean seriously.
GET A LIFE. If you don't like wht PETA is doing,
than you must get pretty bored to come here and
watch this. And for the person above me. THOSE
VIDEOS MADE YOU LAUGH? You must be pretty screwed
up in the head. Those videos are torture to watch.
& KFC is discusting. I haven't eaten KFC in 4 years
and I'm proud tht I haven't. Well whatever. You ppl
have yr opinions, even ifthey don't make sence. But
THIS is just wrong. I support you peta. All the way.

What is the PETA stand on pet ownership ?
What is the PETA stand on zoo's ?

The whole grave thing was Childish and vitriolic.

As far as KFC and it's treatment of there Livestock. I believe That if an Animal has to be slaughtered, it should be done in a Humane and cost effective method. There should be standards and they should be strictly enforced.

I do believe Human Beings have a right to kill Animals to feed themselves, but I certainly do not believe that torture should be part of the process..

For those of you in this post who feel PETA is too aggressive and that they should reason with the population through talk instead, maybe you should read through all the web site information that PETA has posted!
You are dealing with reasonable people and unreasable, airhead, fanatics, like kfc lover above on June 11. They have nothing better to do than come in here and try to rile us up so that they can get their jollies off and feel important. They need attention and have to get it negatively because there is nothng positive about them. The videos "made him laugh". Well it made me laugh out loud that he needs to go out of his way to disrespect a group of people who didn't ask him to come to this site in the first place, just to validate his existence. When you have people breaking the law with indifference and getting away with it like KFC, factory farms, circuses, roadside zoos, and breeders, you have to fight fire with fire. Talking will not do anything because these people have such blatant disregard that you have to use shock power to get the attention that is needed to create change! Keep it up PETA and get the media to notice. Grassroots activism is the key and you guys have the know-how. Power and greed and the love of money have met their match. Besides kfc lover will have to worry about heart disease, colesterol, and obesity from eating all the kfc he "LOVES" so sneering at us will come back to bite him in the a-- someday. LOL LOL

that is sooo cool!
they were stupid for taking it down.
KFC is digusting.

Wow! that is amazing, but stupid that they made you take it down.

AWESOME!!!!! THATS COOL!!!!!!!!! Innovative too

MP who posted July 7...

i couldn't have said it better. you rock.
i agree 100%

LOL. You rock. They shouldn't of made you take it down tho :(

Okay, I watched some of the Kentucky Fried Cruelty videos, and I just got angrier...and angrier....let's just say I'll be driving by KFC tonight.

Ok, for all those people who are feeling bad for the colonel, it has nothing to do with him. This is an activist movement that is trying to get a point across. That is its sole purpose. Also for the basher and the kfc lover GET OFF PETA! If you don't support the site then get off. Your hypocrisy and ignorance is embarassing actually. I don't believe Peta is aggressive, and if it is it's because it needs to be. How else will anyone listen? Those who say it is aggressive are those that are angry at hearing the truth. Be open minded.
Peta rocks!

BTW Rich you rock! I completely agree

that was a really great idea

im not saying that what kfc does is ok, but I wouldn't entirely blame Sanders. Sure he started the business, but that was when he was in his 40s.He only took to franchising Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants at the age of 65! In 1964 he sold the corporation, only acting as the spokes person for the restaurant until he died. All Im saying is that is seems wrong to use his image holding tortured chickens, because he hasn't even been a real part in this company for more than 20 years since he died in 1980, hes just the poor sap whos image got stuck to it. I think that if he was alive that maybe he could have pushed the new owners to change policies concerning the neglect and mistreatment of chickens.That he did love to make chicken for people and have them enjoy it and that he loved the restaurant,obviously or he wouldn't have started a bigger franchise, but I think he is probably rolling in his grave now over all of the hullabaloo that has been going on. Please don't take offense, this is just my opinion.

And one last point- Does that mean that by boycotting KFC I should boycott Randy Quaid too? He does voice overs of the colonel for commercials, but he is an amazing actor, and it sucks he would choose KFC to make some money, but I really would rather keep him in my good books.

Why the hell would you support something like THAT?!

I've just started a KFC Cruelty petition with some of my friends and the ammount of people who dont know about this or are in denial is gob-smacking! We havent even gone a quarter of the way around the school with our petition and we already have 80 signatures in one day.

I still can't believe that someone would support KFC!! It's disgusting. Go PETA!! :D

That is effin' brilliant, birds have rights too and they deserve better treatment. Peta rocks, I owe them my eternal thanks.
*Vegangirl*

I think that it is frickin wrong the way that they treat animals at Kfc.they are godamn losers and should be thrown into alcatraz or whatever prison is worse then that.I have convinced my whole entire 5 people family to go Veg!!!!!!!!!!!
[including my dogs!] we got them meat free chock full of veggies organic dog food!!!!!!!! cool huh??????!!!!!!!!

any way the tombstone was really frickin awesome and they should have let you guys keep it there.[i am 12 years old and have a mind of my own.]

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