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Yum! Brands pulls China TV ad mocking Obama

February 10, 2011 – 10:05 am

Whether it’s fake beef, fascist chickens or toaster oven-shaped stadiums, the Louisville-based fast food giant Yum! Brands is no stranger to bad press, but flattening President Obama with a fish sandwich in a foreign country might’ve went too far. Besides hiring an actor who looks nothing like the president, Yum! Brands apologized for the caricature [...]

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Taco Bell in damage control over fake-beef allegations

January 28, 2011 – 1:14 pm

Pushing back against negative publicity over a class-action lawsuit alleging that ground beef is a minor ingredient in its meat products, Louisville-based Yum! Brands subsidiary Taco Bell purchased advertisements in several major daily newspapers today claiming that such charges are baseless because, well, it was printed in the goddamn newspaper so it’s gotta be true. [...]

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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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Yum! Brands Makes Empty Envrionmental Gesture

June 22, 2009 – 4:08 pm

What? Just because the toilet water in that KFC bathroom is rain water run-off somehow offsets the vast, fossil-fuel dependent distribution system required to transport millions of unsustainably harvested mutant chickens to your thrice-stapled American stomach? A KFC/Taco Bell co-branded store in Northampton, Mass., has been awarded LEED Gold certification, according to Yum Brands. Leadership [...]

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Kentucky Fried China

April 23, 2009 – 9:00 pm

Earlier today we discovered that the Kentucky economy isn’t as bleak as we had assumed, and now we learn that Yum! Brands’ stock surged nearly 8% because CEO David Novak said the magic word “China” and PRESTO! another day-trader refrains from suicide. [The Courier-Journal] Novak said Yum’s business in China, where the company has just [...]

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Kentucky Fried Sheep?

March 25, 2009 – 11:41 am

It could happen: Yum Brands (international purveyor of tacos, chicken, and incontinence) is buying $63 million worth of shares in something called Little Sheep Group Limited, which operates an Asian restaurant chain that’s based in Mongolia and serves food from “Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom.” The following is from Business First; kind of [...]

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