PAMELA ANDERSON SENDS PASSIONATE PLEA, EXPLICIT VIDEO TO TOPEKA KFC MANAGERS

All four Topeka KFC managers received a special delivery from Pamela Anderson this week. On behalf of PETA, the actor and animal rights advocate sent her new explicit DVD showing what happens to chickens before they end up in batter, along with a letter asking managers to urge David Novak—the CEO of KFC’s parent company, Yum! Brands—to eliminate the worst abuses of chickens, such as live scalding in defeathering tanks and breeding and drugging chickens to grow so quickly that they become crippled under their own weight.

Writes Anderson, "As a KFC manager, you can help make positive changes … by letting Yum! CEO David Novak know that you don’t want to sell—and the people of Topeka don’t want to buy—chickens who have been crippled, abused, and scalded alive."

Anderson points out that KFC ignored the recommendations for animal welfare improvements made by members of its own advisory panel, including five members who have since resigned after being ignored for years. Former KFC advisor Adele Douglass told the Chicago Tribune that KFC "never had any meetings. They never asked any advice, and then they touted to the press that they had this animal-welfare advisory committee. I felt like I was being used."

In addition to Anderson, PETA’s campaign has had high-profile support from rock icons Sir Paul McCartney and Chrissie Hynde, country legend Emmylou Harris, actor Bea Arthur, Nobel Peace Prize winner His Holiness the Dalai Lama, civil rights leaders Alice Walker and The Rev. Al Sharpton, and even former KFC spokesperson and Seinfeld star Jason Alexander.