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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"Serj knows that kids are fed up with cruel, outdated attitudes about animals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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