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Serj Tankian Urges Fans to Turn Up the Heat on KFC
Posted by ZAk on Friday, June 06, 2008 - 12:22 PM
Still riding the wave of success of his album Elect the Dead and busier than ever with his new solo career since System of a Down went on hiatus, vocalist Serj Tankian recently took time out of his hectic touring and recording schedule to stick it to the Colonel--KFC's Colonel Sanders, that is.

The political activist and Grammy Award winner has teamed up with his pals at peta2--the world's largest youth animal rights organization--and signed the group's petition to KFC at peta2.com, and Tankian is asking his legions of devoted fans to do the same.

Tankian urges KFC to "improve the lives of" chickens who "suffer from extremely crowded conditions, crippling bone and joint problems resulting from top-heavy breeding, callous handling, inhumane slaughter techniques, and shortened life spans." The nearly 1 billion chickens raised and killed for KFC every year have their sensitive beaks cut off, and the birds are drugged and bred to grow so large that many become crippled from the weight of their massive upper bodies.

Tankian joins an ever-growing list of musicians--including Fall Out Boy, Rise Against, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, and Pink--that have teamed up with peta2 to speak out against KFC's suppliers' cruel treatment of chickens. Also featured on peta2.com are celebrity interviews, message boards, merchandise, downloadable voice-mail recordings, and chances to win great prizes like free concert tickets, iPods, and more.

"Serj knows that kids are fed up with cruel, outdated attitudes about animals and that kids are not going to stand for it," says peta2 Assistant Director of Youth Campaigns Dan Shannon. "After all, if KFC executives treated cats or dogs the way their suppliers treat chickens, they'd be hit with cruelty-to-animals charges."

For more information and to sign the petition, please visit peta2.com.


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Bounce!
07.06.08, 07:05

HAHAHA!!!

In like 3 of my dreams Serj and I have eaten KFC...

But irl, yeah. Cool beans for signing that.

spidermode
07.06.08, 07:24
i love serj.... but dammit, i love chicken. so torn! >_<
tiffanyevett
07.06.08, 07:48

well ppl r haveing the same problems like the chickens, besiadtaking ppl to sloder houes, lol, just think about it there r ppl beating, killing, over weight, sick and inggered aswell like the chickens, but we do eat them and we don't eat ppl, that is the only thing that is different there, hummm, i saw the vid. on the side of the screen in the blue where it said ads by google and there some thing about animal cruelty, man i was shocked what they do to the farm animals and sad, i do feel sorry for them hummm :(

GanjaEgoBrain
07.06.08, 07:50

Wow.. the first few comments are fucking ridiculous. Have you seen how theses animals are treated? Go onto Youtube or any Anti-Animal Cruelty site and see the footage taken at these slaughter houses.

These workers treat the chickens like punching bags, break bones so they suffer before they are put out of their misery and at pig farms to. Theres footage of workers taking a nail gun and shooting the pigs in spots that won't kill them. Just leave them in extreme agony to die slowly.

If you don't want to sign it then thats fine, but don't bad mouth Serj because hes trying to make a difference in the world. Just because hes not trying to end world hunger, doesn't mean what hes doing is meaningless.

What hes doing, hes gained a little bit of my respect back. For a while it seemed like he was turning into the person he always said he was going to be, MAINSTREAM. Looks like hes back to his crime fighting roots. So to speak.

ufcdanny
07.06.08, 09:35

I agree that animals shouldn't be treated one bit like they are nowadays. But, I can't stand PETA. They guilt everyone into joining their "cause" and therefore handing over $$$.

partisan_3
07.06.08, 15:18

SystemKiksAss is a genuine twat

PETA are not listed by any nation or organisation as a terrorist group

IamSerjTankian1322
08.06.08, 11:44

im sorry but peta is retarded.... they always shove their opinions in ur face, its not like meat eaters go to their events and picket agains vegetarianism, and besides God put animals on this planet for a reason, if we didnt eat them they would overpoplulate the world, besides we are animals ourselves, and animals eat animals.... so yeah

Yumatira
09.06.08, 19:15

chickens don't deserve torture, but I like the KFC though...

DarkStar78
10.06.08, 15:38

OMG guys what the fuck is going on here?! I dont get how anyone can support someting like KFC, liek Austyn said, they turtore the chikens like they couldnt feel pain, and damnit, if we treat animals like that, no wonder we treat other humans the same way.

Serj has my respect for this but Ive been supporting PETA before I knew he joined in. GO SERJ ! - and open your mind, those who say "aw no, PETA are terrorists" *rolls eyes*

Systemfreak1732
10.06.08, 16:52

i hate fast food, therefore i don't eat KFC anyways. Just the thought of fried chicken makes me gag.

hackthesystem2
12.06.08, 07:54

peta *are* terrorists....

4thofJuly
12.06.08, 08:39

Dude fuck this bullshit. I'm addicted to chicken, and i'm not giving it up for these silly whiners.

SerratedEdge
13.06.08, 05:05

There's a happy medium here somewhere. Sure animal cruelty is, well, cruel. But I'll be damned if I'm not going to have a spicy chicken twister after work if I want it. I think the moral of this story is Serj rules, carnivores and vegetarians suck, and KFC Spicy Twisters are the shit.

Soul'sRoulette
14.06.08, 09:16

About the whole "it doesn't matter if a few vegetarians protest KFC"-KFC Canada has pledged to improve the circumstances of their chickens, the way they are brought up and slaughtered because of PETA. So you can say about their methods whatever you want but they achieve something. This was never about forcing people to be vegetarians, it's about how the animals are treated.

It's the latest trend to hate PETA, and by all means, go ahead and hate them, but some of the comments I have read here are just plain ridiculous. "I've heard they are terrorists".

It's a well known fact that the chickens that end up in your bucket are pumped with drugs to make them grow faster, they lived in the poorest of conditions and all that only to be killed off in terible ways.

Don't blame PETA for their campaigns either. They are doing what they have to to get people's attention. Which is really hard these days.

I have been a vegetarian for eight years now and I am not active member of PETA but I still am behind what they're doing.

denise
17.06.08, 18:58

while i do agree that those chickens are treated in a very cruel manner, they are not the only animals that are. watch the animal cops program on animal planet, the animals on that show are supposed to be pets the chickens and other animals bred for food are a whole different lot. when people take an animal as a pet that animal becomes in a sense a family member, thousands of animals that are supposed to be pets are treated far worse than those chickens which keep in mind are raised solely as a source of food. yes i agree its cruel and yes i agree there are more pressing problems facing us today. serj is passionate about many causes peta is one of many. i wont sign the petition not because i agree with the way the chickens are treated but because i know the birds are raised only for food and not as pets

DarkStar78
18.06.08, 17:16

Oh I just read that I suck coz Im a vegetarian, and Rike sucks too and Louise as well .. okay were all a bunch of suckers but I still support Serj and PETA and STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY !!!!!

ChopSuey7
19.06.08, 02:51

I don't like PETA in the least, but i do support animal rights. Don't get me wrong, i'm a total carnivore, but this is just overkill, literally. One signature for freedom! lol

Mike0690
19.06.08, 13:53

Regardless of whatever the controversy surrounding PETA is, this is just a peititon, and the treatment of these animals is ridiculous.

Sign'd.

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