{"id":6962,"date":"2004-06-24T19:25:27","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T00:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/06\/24\/dalai-lama-doesnt-want-a-kfc-in-tibet\/"},"modified":"2004-06-24T19:25:27","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T00:25:27","slug":"dalai-lama-doesnt-want-a-kfc-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/06\/dalai-lama-doesnt-want-a-kfc-in-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama doesn&#039;t want a KFC in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">A reader sent me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/food\/2004-06-24-dalai-lama-kfc_x.htm\">link<br \/>\nto this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">NEW DELHI (AP) &#8212; The Dalai Lama has appealed<br \/>\nto U.S.-based Yum Brands (YUM) not to open a fast-food KFC chicken outlet<br \/>\nin his homeland of Tibet,<br \/>\naccording to an animal rights advocacy group.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The Dalai Lama says seeing plucked chickens hanging in stores<br \/>\nhurts him.  \n<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released<br \/>\na letter it said was from the Dalai Lama, telling the restaurant chain<br \/>\nthat his people believe in<br \/>\nslaughtering animals humanely &#8212; and eat larger ones such as yaks so<br \/>\nthat fewer animals will die. Most Tibetans are not vegetarians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">In Louisville, a Yum spokesman said the company had not received the letter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">There is just something cool about an article that contains both<br \/>\nthe words<br \/>\nYum and Yak. Now I just wonder what the Dalai Lama has against Yaks? Did one<br \/>\ncross him as a child? Yaks are quiet creatures that never give you any lip -you<br \/>\nknow Yakity Yak, don&#8217;t talk back. But still Kentucky Fried Yak just doesn&#8217;t sound<br \/>\nall that appealing, especially since a bucket could contain just one drumstick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent me a link to this story. NEW DELHI (AP) &#8212; The Dalai Lama has appealed to U.S.-based Yum Brands (YUM) not to open a fast-food KFC chicken&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}