Oh, KFC, How I Would Hate to be Your PR Rep
It has long been established that animal rights organizations - PETA in particular - hate Kentucky Fried Chicken more than any other restaurant out there. The prominent fast food joint has a history of being the so-called cruelest of the cruel when it comes to animals being used for human food.
Recent events began to show, however, that perhaps the Kentucky Fried Cruelty campaign is getting to the Colonel Sanders, or at least to his Canadian counterpart.
In May of this year, actor Ryan Gosling spoke up for his fellow fowls by writing a letter to the KFC Canada (his home country) headquarters, urging them to reconsider their ways. At the beginning of June, after seven months in discussion with PETA, KFC Canada announced that they would be introducing many new animal-friendly practices including a vegan, faux-chicken menu option.
With barely enough time to celebrate the small victory, Canadian vegetarians and vegans have already been let down: the vegan chicken isn’t vegan nor vegetarian.
Perhaps the fake meat is vegan before KFC workers get their grubby hands on it (unlikely, however, as most contain eggs), but once the veggie chicks are de-thawed, they are fried in the same lard as the real chicken. Then, they are slathered in mayo which has an egg base.
So if you are the kind of lax vegetarian who eats eggs and doesn’t mind your food mingling with meat, in a meat-based fat, then head on up to a Canadian KFC and get your vegan-ish faux meat.
July 28th, 2008 at 7:57 am
[...] have agreed to a soy-based truce, predicated on two things: Canada, and the protean slime of the Unchicken burger, a soy-and-gack based patty (fried in the same sludge that the chicken goes into) that is sure to [...]
September 7th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
KFC is disgusting and evil. Nothing is edible there. I’d rather eat low fat vegan chicken at the grocery store any day.