Naw, Oprah, Please Tell Me You Didn't Recommend KFC

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(NaturalNews) After Oprah publicized a giveaway of KFC chicken dinners to anyone who could download a coupon from the 'net. KFC stores across the nation were inundated with customers lining up for free chicken, to the point where some restaurants either closed their doors or declined to honor the Oprah-endorsed coupons. KFC restaurants are now being described as "under siege" by coupon-gripping Oprah followers who want their free chicken, two sides and a biscuit.

The problem with the promotion? Oprah's recommendation now means countless more chickens will be slaughtered in disgusting factory farms that abusively breed chemically-injected chickens to supply KFC restaurants. As you'll read on www.KentuckyFriedCruelty.com :

KFC suppliers cram birds into huge waste-filled factories, breed and drug them to grow so large that they can't even walk, and often break their wings and legs. At slaughter, the birds' throats are slit and they are dropped into tanks of scalding-hot water -- often while they are still conscious. It would be illegal for KFC to abuse dogs, cats, pigs, or cows in these ways.

KFC's own animal welfare advisors have asked the company to take steps to eliminate these abuses, but KFC refuses to do so. Many advisors have now resigned in frustration.

Is this really what Oprah is promoting?

Apparently so. The promotion page is still live on the Oprah.com website (http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahs...), although the offer itself has now been pulled due to overwhelming response.

How exactly is promoting factory-farmed chicken consistent with the values and goals Oprah has so often espoused in her many years of good work?

I've admired Oprah for a long time. I see her as a courageous, intelligent person who has gone out of her way to help people in ways too numerous to name. She's publicly stated her opposition to factory farming, and of course her run-in with the beef industry over mad cow disease is well known.

The point is, Oprah is not a proponent of factory farming. She's actually an opponent of such practices.

So why did she unleash a tsunami of chicken giveaways that will result in the cruel deaths of countless living chickens?

As I see it, there are three possible explanations:

#1) Oprah really isn't charge of the Oprah empire anymore. This happens with many celebrities whose empires grow so large that they need to delegate the business end of it to others. It's possible that Oprah's staff created this KFC deal without her knowledge, or that they misrepresented the deal to her and she didn't really know what she was getting into.

#2) Oprah got hoodwinked. It could be that some clever KFC dealmaker squirmed his way into this deal by tricking Oprah in some way (that we'll probably never know). This is actually the position of PETA, which believes Oprah was blindsided by all this.

#3) Oprah lost her mind. Perhaps she just abandoned her principles and did the KFC promo for a few extra bucks. This seems rather unlikely, in my view, but you never know.

But it begs the question: How can you not know you're promoting KFC when you go on the air and tell people to download coupons for free chicken dinners at KFC? How could this have slipped through the process of vetting Oprah's extremely valuable endorsements?

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