Dalai Lama doesn't want a KFC in Tibet
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The Dalai Lama has appealed
to U.S.-based Yum Brands (YUM) not to open a fast-food KFC chicken outlet
in his homeland of Tibet,
according to an animal rights advocacy group.
The Dalai Lama says seeing plucked chickens hanging in stores
hurts him.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released a letter it said was from the Dalai Lama, telling the restaurant chain that his people believe in slaughtering animals humanely — and eat larger ones such as yaks so that fewer animals will die. Most Tibetans are not vegetarians.
In Louisville, a Yum spokesman said the company had not received the letter.
There is just something cool about an article that contains both the words Yum and Yak. Now I just wonder what the Dalai Lama has against Yaks? Did one cross him as a child? Yaks are quiet creatures that never give you any lip -you know Yakity Yak, don't talk back. But still Kentucky Fried Yak just doesn't sound all that appealing, especially since a bucket could contain just one drumstick.
Known as 
Yes but popcorn Yak would be easy to make!
Yak is their means of survival on the plateau, and its use has been there long before Buddhism came to Tibet. And as a monk Dalai Lama would never eat animal flesh of any kind.
Where did it say that Yum was planning to open a KFC in Tibet? Why would they open one there? Perhaps the PRC would let them do it just to tick off the Dalai Lama.
I don't even like the name KFC. I want it to be Kentucky Fried Chicken!
I wonder where the Dalai Lama got the amazing idea that I'm supposed to get all worked up over his personal likes and dislikes. He must have been consorting with reverent liberals too long. If he's got an argument against KFC, he ought to state it; that seeing dead chickens hurts his feelings is neither here nor there. But there I go being all heartless and Western and rational again.
I propose opening a McDonald's instead. With their food technology, they could serve razor-thin burgers from just one cow for a century.
I think the new marketing phrase is "Kitchen Fresh Yak" Also, I gather that in Tibet those would be free range Yak.
I ought also to point out that a KFC restaurant is about the last place in the world any passerby is likely to see a dead chicken dangling from a poulterer's hook. Part of the psychological equation of fast food is that it just appears, and doesn't actually come from anywhere, certainly not from a deceased animal.