Tag Archives: PETA

BREAKING: PETA to erect crippled-chicken statue in Highlands neighborhood

January 5, 2011 – 2:48 pm

The nearly two-year long battle between the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and Louisville Metro Government regarding the placement of a 5-foot 6-inch tall crippled chicken statue has likely come to an end. According to a press release, PETA will erect the statue adjacent to Ray’s Monkeyhouse, a defunct coffeeshop owned by former [...]

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Louisville denies PETA chicken statue permit

August 18, 2010 – 4:01 pm

Once again, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been denied a permit to erect a five-and-a-half-foot crippled chicken statue in downtown Louisville because a property owner objected to the idea. The property owner in question? Why, none other than the Kentucky International Convention Center, a quasi-governmental organization just a stone’s throw from [...]

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KFC Doubling Down on Dead Fatties With New Sandwich

April 12, 2010 – 2:16 pm

And the folks over at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are nonplussed, to say the least. Via angsty press release: Louisville, Ky. — Timed to coincide with the debut of KFC’s controversial Double Down sandwich, PETA is announcing its national KFC hearse tour, which will kick off in Louisville—the home of KFC’s headquarters—in [...]

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Crippled chicken statue shenanigans continue

March 5, 2010 – 3:27 pm

A couple weeks back, we told you of the city’s game of goal post-changing regarding the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal’s wish to place a crippled chicken statue in glorious downtown Louisville. Since then, LEO Weekly has obtained interdepartmental Metro correspondence via an open records request that suggests the city may have more [...]

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Louisville Too Good For Crippled Chicken Statue?

February 8, 2010 – 2:15 pm

As a practicing omnivore, the rhetoric of PETA can be a little acerbic at times. I think a happy chicken is the tastiest kind of chicken despite how I’d be labeled as a murdering fascist. However, PETA’s proposal to erect a 5 1/2 foot-tall statue of a bloodied, crippled chicken in downtown Louisville makes more [...]

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PETA, Animals Hate Cold Weather, Love Loretta Lynn

January 6, 2010 – 3:14 pm

You may have noticed it is freezing outside. (Points for observation, gumshoe!) That said, you may own pets that dislike the freezing cold as much as you do, but not to worry: Naked human-factory PETA has you and your goddamned animals covered. For starters — and I’m paraphrasing their suggestions, for the record — keep [...]

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PETA ‘Police’ Crackdown

November 9, 2009 – 2:03 pm

While it is very fun — and popular — to regard the folks of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals as a kind of Scientology-esque performance art cult, let’s keep in mind that their hearts are in the right place. I mean, who doesn’t love furry, cuddly, adorable animals? And boobs? We can’t say as [...]

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