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PETA protest backfires
While a girl dressed in a chicken costume and nine of her animal-rights activist friends protested outside a Logan restaurant Monday, hundreds of other people clucked their way indoors for a taste of drumsticks, thighs and wings.Benjamin Goldsmith, a campaign coordinator for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has been organizing a series of protests outside KFC restaurants because of the way the company kills its chickens. Monday's campaign in Logan, however, may have backfired, as the store on 400 North saw one of its busiest days in recent memory. At one point around noon, more than 30 people stood in line to order chicken. Warning: Beverage Alert "I think there's a place in this world for all of God's creations ... right next to the mashed potatoes," said Rusty Smith, a KFC customer who sat on a patch of grass outside the restaurant with a group of co-workers, watching the protest. Smith said his group chose to sit outside the restaurant because "there's so many people in there, it was a little crowded." Jacqueline Newbold, a supervisor at KFC, said an uncommon rush of customers for about two hours required the store to call extra employees into work. Posted by: Glaque Ulomoter5145 2005-08-02 |
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