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Exclusive: PETA Fries Flavor Flav in Open Letter

The animal rights group are angry that Flav fries chicken.

Poor Flavor Flav. First, he upset employees at his chicken joint, who claim their paychecks bounced. Now, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is after him, and we all know those vegans go for the blood when it comes to our four-legged friends. 

PETA has gone after Beyoncé, Kelis and Mary J. Blige (who famously said, "Those PETA people don't want to mess with me; they don't want to throw paint on my coat because it's not just going to be throwing paint. It's going to be Mary in the news the next day, you know what I mean?").
Check out this BET.com exclusive, an open (and shady) letter provided from the vegan folks at PETA:

Dear Flav,

Greetings from PETA! After reading about the debacle involving employees of your fried-chicken restaurant in Clinton, Iowa, whose paychecks bounced, we're writing to encourage you to bounce one more thing—cruelty—and make your restaurant vegetarian.

If you thought your roast was bad, wait until you hear how chickens who are raised to be roasted are treated! Chickens are arguably the most abused animal on the planet. In the United States, more than 8 billion chickens are killed for their flesh each year, and 90 percent of these animals spend their lives in total filth and confinement—from the moment they hatch until the day they are killed.

More chickens are raised and killed for food than all other land animals combined, yet not a single federal law protects chickens from abuse—even though two-thirds of Americans say that they would support such a law. Chickens on factory farms are bred and drugged to grow so large so quickly that their legs and organs can't keep up, making heart attacks, organ failure, and crippling leg deformities common.

At the slaughterhouse, they are hung upside down, and their fragile legs are forced into shackles. Almost all chickens are still conscious when their throats are cut, and many are scalded to death in feather-removal tanks after missing the throat-cutter.

There's no reason to cash in on this cruelty. You can have all the same menu items as you did before—minus the meat. Delicious faux chicken is available wholesale from such companies as Gardein, and loads of palate-pleasing recipes are available free on our website: http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/recipes/. Faux fried chicken is as mouthwatering as it is healthy and humane, and we guarantee that it will have your customers yelling, "Yeah, boy!"

We hope that you will choose to reflect the true "flavor of love" by making your restaurant vegetarian. If we can be of any assistance, please don't hesitate to contact me at MichelleC@peta.org.

Best wishes,

Michelle Cho
PETA

 

(Photo:  Flavor Flav Chicken)

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