George Constanza Opens His BIG MOUTH, gets canned by KFC

PETA strikes again.

 

You have the rooster, the chicken and the hen. The rooster goes with the chicken. Who's having sex with the hen. You see what I'm saying here? Something's missing!!

 

oops

 

WAITRESS: So, the New York Yankees traded you for a bunch of Tyler chicken.

GEORGE: Dogs, twists, a kind of fermented chicken drink.

 

i hadn't considered that george went to work for a top-flight chicken operation!

 

Good for him. I have no love for peta whatsoever, but the conditions on many of the factory farms in the US is just horrifying.

 

*salivating*

PETA and George Constanza, standing united???? How odd:

JERRY: You ran over some pigeons? How many?

GEORGE: What ever they had. Miranda thinks I'm a butcher but it's not my fault is it? Don't we have a

deal with the pigeons?

JERRY: Of course. We have a deal. They get out of the way of our cars, we look the other way on the

statue dedications.

GEORGE: Right! And these pigeons broke the deal. I will not accept the blame for this.

JERRY: So Maranda's cooled on y'a?

GEORGE: I'm getting nothing.

JERRY: Yeah, me neither.

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KRAMER: Oh! Well, ladies and gentlemen! It's our good friend, George Costanza! What a surprise!

Yeah, sit, sit, sit.. Weeell!

GEORGE: Well, it happened again.

JERRY: What happened?

KRAMER: tut tut , I'll ask the questions. What happened?

GEORGE: Well, I just stomped some pigeons in the park. They - they didn't move.

KRAMER: All right, let's change the subject. Now, uh you and Jerry dated for a while. Tell us ... what

was that like? That was the wrong card.

GEORGE: I I don't get these birds! They're breaking the deal. It's like the pigeons decided to ignore me!

JERRY: So they're like everyone else.

 

"For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three."

 

Fine by me. Those commercials were embarrassing for both KFC and Jason Alexander.

 

Good for Alexander -- I respect him for it. Interestingly, this appears to be the beginning of a new, more humane trend. This excerpt is from a lengthy business article in today's NYTimes:

Animal Welfare's Unexpected Allies
By DAVID BARBOZA

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The cameras are rolling here at Purdue University's animal research center, tracking a half-dozen pigs, each with an ink streak slathered across its back for identification.

The pigs have a choice to make. They can use their snouts either to let them into a pen where they can socialize with other pigs, or they can stay put with their food.
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"We want to get the animal's perspective, to see what they prefer," explains Edmond A. Pajor, assistant professor of animal behavior and welfare at Purdue. "We want to know: How important is social contact and space? What do they like and need?"

A decade ago, big food companies would have dismissed such research as silly, a deviation from the advances in industrial farming that have allowed them to reduce the cost of hamburgers and chicken nuggets. But today, those companies are not just taking the research seriously; they are financing it.

McDonald's, Burger King, KFC and Wendy's have all underwritten research and recently hired what are called animal welfare specialists to help them devise new standards aimed at ensuring more humane treatment of the animals destined for their kitchens. Industry trade groups are promoting the new rules and conducting audits of livestock producers to assure they are being followed, though some groups express concern about higher costs and other complications.

Experts say that the food industry is responding to growing health concerns and criticism of the nation's factory farms, which raise over eight billion animals (mostly chickens) a year in giant production and slaughtering operations. Looming regulations — most immediately in Europe, but also in the United States — are adding to the pressure.

As a result, after decades of crowding more and more animals into smaller and smaller stalls and pens, livestock producers and processors are being asked to create more space for animals, to reduce their reliance on growth-promoting drugs, and to transport and slaughter animals in more humane ways.

Soon, cages might be eliminated from some factory farms, and animals that not long ago were clubbed before being killed — and are now knocked unconscious by electric stun guns — could be first put to sleep gently, with gas.

"The whole drumbeat in the U.S. for the last century has been to reduce the cost of food," said Todd J. Duvick, a food analyst at Banc of America Securities. "Now people are paying attention to things like how food is produced and how animals are treated."

The changes are being applauded even by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, an organization best known for guerrilla attacks on the fur industry and fast-food outlets, and for publicizing photographs of what they say are cruel acts being performed on animals.

"McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's have done some pretty good stuff, but they had to be prodded into it,"' said Dan Shannon, a spokesman for PETA. "These animals are not living in luxury suites being hand-fed grapes, but this is an improvement."

 

I saw that in the Times this morning, good article. No matter your stance on the consumption of tasty animals, their welfare while on this earth is important. However oftentimes more humane practices are more expensive, thus the need to "prod" corporations into doing the right thing. Just a fact of life. But there is a definite trend in the industry towards humane handling of animals, and this trend is driven mainly by consumers, i.e. the desire of corps to avoid negative publicity. If only groups like peta and the like would tone down their public rhetoric, they would be able to accomplish so much more behind the scenes in dealing with these companies, and would have a much more favorable reception with the general public at large.

 

i'm just impressed the man stands for his convictions. he saw something..he thought it was wrong...he stood up and said so, even if it means losing a pecuniary interest he had in continuing to be the spokesperson.

 

I love eating chicken! Yummy!

 

No kidding. I was shocked when he took that gig in the first place. I can tell you for a fact that he would not have put KFC chicken on his table prior to signing that contract. JA also tries to have clever commercials so you know he is $banking$ to put out the **** that KFC puts on TV.

I am so inside on this, it is silly.

 

Okay, I know that I am going to sound like a cruel-hearted b*stard here, but what does it really matter anyway? I mean these animals are going to be killed, isn't that cruelty in itself?

 

We're ALL going to die at some point -- I don't think that makes us any less deserving of a decent life while we're here.

I actually don't think the killing is the cruel part. Death is an inevitable part of life and, in the case of these animals, lasts only a few seconds. The suffering in miserable conditions, on the other hand, can last for months or years. That, to me, is unecessary cruelty.

 

Well, let me clarify what I said earlier. Not all chickens, pigs, etc are going to be slaughtered for food purposes. My point, which I guess was a very thin one, is why are some pigs and chickens spared from being a meal for some human and others aren't? Why can't they be like dogs and cats and not eaten at all?

However, I understand what you are saying about the suffering and that should not be happening.