What the Cluck?!?!

 The feathers are hitting the fan.

PETA’s tore up from the floor up over a move to make fried chicken Kentucky’s official picnic food.

State Rep. Charles Siler is sponsoring legislation to give KFC’s chicken, first served by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1940, this very distinction. Siler pointed out that the colonel’s chicken deserves the title because of the “worldwide attention and economic benefit” it has brought to Kentucky.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) doesn’t care for the idea. Whatsoever. The animal rights group claims that the chickens KFC serves are abused, even tortured.

“If the state legislature moves forward with this one, then they should change Kentucky’s state bird from the cardinal to the debeaked, crippled, scalded, diseased, dead chicken,” said Bruce Friedrich, PETA vice president.

PETA has been a thorn in KFC’s side for a long time now. They pushed, two years ago, to have a Colonel Sanders statue removed from the Kentucky Capitol!

While KFC says that it has an advisory panel and guidelines, PETA claims that the Kentucky legend uses tactics that are simply unneccesary and cruel.  As animal lovers who would fight someone tooth and nail who tried to hurt an animal, we at Genuine Kentucky think a different system should be looked into.

Having said that, to even suggest the removal of the statue of one of our state’s most lovable and recognizable individuals is ridiculous.  As is fighting the move to make chicken Kentucky’s official picnic food.

Should PETA continue to bring attention to cruel and unnecessary treatment of animals?  Certainly. 

But there’s no need to be bird brained about it.