ThinkTanked's Blog

"EWWWWW, KFC KILLS CHICKENS!", are the words I heard coming from my 11 and 8 year old daughters as I place the bucket of chicken down on the dining room table after spending close to $30 for a meal after working late. My daughters refused to eat the meal I had brought home for them! I asked them "What's wrong with chicken?? You've always loved chicken, why do you hate it now?"

This was the kicker... out of my 8 year olds backpack comes a brochure from PETA, an organization against animal abuse, that was handed out to the children at Citrus Springs Elementary School in Citrus County, Florida. Now I'm not sure if other schools in Florida were affected by this or if it was just my daughters school. But I would like to get to the bottom of this.

I found it quite shocking that public schools in Florida would allow organizations such as PETA to disperse their brochures to the children. I'm not necessarily in favor of the way the chickens are treated before going to the slaughter house but I am against organizations throwing their ideas and beliefs at minors without parental consent. The brochure went on to explain how we should demand KFC to use organic chicken and chickens that are raised on open range farms... blah blah blah.

So now I have to deal with questions about slaughtering chickens and now they are against slaughtering cows. Are the public schools trying to turn my daughters into vegetarians?

Needless to say I have a large bucket of chicken in the refrigerator that I will be eating over the next week, the Colonials recipe still tastes great to me and I would like to apologize for the miserable life of the chicken, and forgive me for not giving it a proper burial. Pass me a napkin please... thanks.

Note: My 4 year old daughter, although she mimicked the older kids and said "EWWWW, KFC KILLS CHICKENS!", gladly sat down with me and with a smile ate some KFC chicken with her dad.