Stick to your own bust Pamela

Isn't the irony in this story funny? PETA using Pamela Anderson as a spokesperson for the getting rid of a bust. My dear wife had a good laugh out of it.

Open Post- Bloggin Outloud, Jo's Cafe, Third World County, NIF, TMH's Bacon Bits, Outside the Beltway,

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- First came calls to remove the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the state Capitol. Now, another famous Kentuckian is under fire.

An animal rights group is calling for the bust of Colonel Harland Sanders -- founder of KFC -- to be hauled out. Television star Pamela Anderson is leading the charge.

"The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol,'' Anderson said in a statement issued by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an animal rights group based in Norfolk, Va.

The suggestion didn't ruffle feathers in Gov. Ernie Fletcher's office.

``We certainly appreciate everyone's right to an opinion,'' spokeswoman Jodi Whitaker said. ``Colonel Sanders was one of Kentucky's most distinguished citizens, a great entrepreneur and a fine charitable man of faith, and he certainly has a place in Kentucky history. We believe he warrants appropriate recognition as such.''

Anderson has been involved in a public relations campaign to raise awareness of what she calls abuse of chickens in processing plants that supply poultry to the Louisville-based chicken chain.

In a letter to Fletcher, Anderson detailed alleged abuses of chickens by KFC suppliers. Among her claims, she said workers in a slaughterhouse in West Virginia have been filmed tearing the heads off live birds, spitting tobacco in their eyes, spray-painting their faces and slamming them on the ground.

"We felt the bust of Colonel Sanders is inappropriate in the state Capitol because it portrays a man who founded a company that treats chickens in a way that would be illegal if dogs or cats were the victims,'' said Matt Prescott, a spokesman for PETA.

KFC spokeswoman Laurie Schalow said ``this is just another misguided publicity stunt by PETA in their attempt to create a vegan society.''

Another display in the Capitol that has stirred controversy is the statue of Davis, a Kentucky native who served as president of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Black leaders unsuccessfully called two years ago for it to be moved to a less visible spot in the Kentucky History Center.