Matt Rammelkamp's Blog

Personal blog of Matthew Rammelkamp from 2005 - 2009. Blog is now changing sites to www.MatthewThomas.tv

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Trying to keep up with News from peta2...

In the next 17 months, up to 400 of KFC's 5,500 restaurants in the United States are expected to be closed down—that would be a whopping 7.2% ...one KFC owner even admits that the stores are closing because they just ain't makin' money. (reminder to hold more KFC demos)...

Whole Foods founder (and longtime vegan) John Mackey recently announced that he has decided to cut his salary to $1 because he is more interested in making the world a better place than in making lots of money.

Apparently POM's Vice President and spokesperson, Fiona Posell, couldn't take the heat—this past Friday, the juice company posted a press release announcing that Fiona has resigned after several months of protests by animal rights activists. For those of you who don't know, POM funds painful experiments on animals in order to sell pomegranate juice. In one of POM's ridiculous experiments, pregnant mice were fed POM juice and their week-old babies were locked in a chamber with almost no oxygen for 45 minutes, causing severe brain damage; the babies were then killed so that experimenters could dissect their brains.

Kristen Bell = Sexiest vegetarian (reminder to go see her new movie Veronica Mars)

ok ...peta2.com is a good website, check it out