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February 14, 2005
Beastie Boys vs. KFC: UPDATE!
According to a statement posted by Adam Yauch on the Beastie Boys website, the trio never sent a letter to the KFC headquarters as reported by PETA last week.
Here's a portion of Yauch's much dignified response:
"For the record, we did not draft this letter. Basically it went down like this; a lady was walking around an airport in Australia asking people to sign something. When she approached me I thought (and I assume that Adam and Mike did as well) that it was a petition that she was getting as many signatures on as she could. So I signed it thinking that I might be able to help out with stopping some unnecessary suffering of some birds. But I thought that my name would appear in conjunction with thousands of others.
By the look of the letter that PETA sent out, they must have scanned our signatures, photo shopped them neatly in order and then added our names typed in, so that it would look like we drafted and sent the letter ourselves."
For the complete statement, click here.
I know PETA pulls some crazy stunts, but this is ridiculous! Alienating civic-minded celebrities like the Beasties is not going to progress your campaign. Respect yo!
Posted by Michele at February 14, 2005 04:28 PM
