DRIVER ANGELA PROUDFOOT PUTS “KENTUCKY FRIED
CRUELTY” CAMPAIGN ON FAST TRACK
Speed Queen Emblazons PETA-Sponsored Hot
Rod With “Boycott KFC”
Norfolk, Va. — She’s been recognized as one
of the top 10 sport-compact drag racers in the
country and featured in AutoWeek, USA Today, and
Parade magazines. Now, professional
sport-compact drag racer Angela Proudfoot has
had the hood of her PETA-cosponsored,
800+-horsepower Honda Civic hot rod painted to
show a maniacal Col. Sanders holding a bloody
knife in one hand and a terrified chicken in the
other with the tagline “Kentucky Fried
Cruelty—Boycott KFC!” The graphic artwork is the
latest salvo in PETA’s international campaign to
urge KFC to crack down on its suppliers’ cruel
treatment of chickens, which includes searing
off chicks’ sensitive beaks, using catching
methods that result in broken bones, and sending
live birds through tanks of scalding water. The
eye-catching artwork will remain on Proudfoot’s
car for the remainder of the racing season.
“KFC is going nowhere fast when it comes to
animal-welfare reforms and needs to put the
brakes on animal abuse,” says Proudfoot, who
became a vegan for conscientious reasons as well
as health concerns. “If KFC executives treated
cats or dogs the way they treat chickens, they
could go to prison on felony cruelty-to-animals
charges.”
PETA and Proudfoot are calling on KFC to make
basic improvements based on the best available
scientific research and the recommendations of
members of KFC’s own animal-welfare advisory
panel. Undercover investigations into KFC
suppliers in the U.S., Germany, India, England,
and Australia have all turned up crippled
chickens living in crowded, filthy conditions.
The widely read British newspaper The Sunday
Mirror reported the results of an investigation
into a U.K. KFC supplier under the headline
“Distressed and Dying in a Cramped Shed … Nobody
Does Chicken Like KFC.”
Proudfoot is the latest in a growing roster
of celebrities who have joined PETA’s KFC
Campaign that includes hip-hop mogul Russell
Simmons, actors Pamela Anderson and Bea Arthur,
comedian Richard Pryor, rock legends Sir Paul
McCartney and Chrissie Hynde, and civil-rights
icon Dick Gregory.
For more information and to view Angela
Proudfoot’s “KFC Cruelty”-emblazoned racecar,
please visit PETA’s Web site
KentuckyFriedCruelty.com. |
