Dalai Lama Teams With PETA

It seems that corporate officials for YUM Brands, parent company for KFC, received notification from the Dalai Lama in a letter, dated June 22nd, stating:

"On behalf of my friends at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), I am writing to ask that KFC abandon its plan to open restaurants in Tibet, because your corporation's support for cruelty and mass slaughter violate Tibetan value." The Buddhist holy man cited the death of a chicken for his becoming a vegetarian. He also stressed that eating chicken was not a Tibetan cultural tradition.

YUM brands studied the feasibility of selling chicken in Tibet but halted all plans when they realized it wouldn't be a receptive marketplace.

I personally don't make much of the tie-in of PETA with the Buddhist leader. They would surely be equally successful in coaxing a Muslim cleric into writing a letter pleading that Jimmy Dean Pork Sausage not be sold in Islamabad.