Keep up the good work!

The Power of One Animal Rights Group

why no fast food?

Forgetting the whole animal aspect, why would anyone want KFC on a campus? Of all the places out there it is pretty bottom of the barrel.

The Power of One Animal Rights Group is against KFC for the way they kill chickens, but they are okay with Taco Bell?

That seems rather hypocritical to me given the way cows are killed to be processed for end-users such as Taco Bell. Or, for the way pigs and turkeys are killed before being turned into the cold cuts used by Subway. Or, for the way the migrant farm workers who pick the vegetables used by Taco Bell and Subway are treated.

And, by the way, did anyone happen to tell this group that KFC and Taco Bell are both part of the same parent company?

taco bell, pizza hut and kfc are all owned by pepsico

A&W All American Food
KFC
Long John Silver's
Pizza Hut
Taco Bell

Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Ky., is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants with over 34,000 restaurants in over 100 countries. Four of our restaurant brands - KFC, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell - are the global leaders of the chicken, quick-service seafood, pizza and Mexican-style food categories. A&W Restaurants is the longest running quick-service franchise chain in America. In 2006, Yum! Brands generated more than $9.5 billion in total revenues, including company sales and franchise fees.

Wow...they won a victory against an opponent that didn't even exist in the first place.

Time well spent!!!

Go Eagles!!!

After reading this article, I had deja vue...remembering the time I congratulated my first grader on a video game well played.

Soon, after 600,000 studies funded by pork-barrel projects earmarked in omnibus bills, costing over 300 billion in totality.

Bottom Line:

If you exercise, you will live long. If you don't, you will die young.

Eat what you want...but work as hard as the crap you just inhaled.

Keep moving. Smaller target.

What a bunch of stupid kids! The next generation is going to have some real problems!

What ever happened to freedom of choice? Just don't go there! Why reck the choice for other people?

Freedom of choice? How about the freedom to keep off campuses corporate fast-food chains that sell gluttony to undereducated, vulnerable kids, many of whom aren't smart enough to know the difference between KFC and real food.

Why do "universities" like FGCU (quotation marks very much intended), institutions that should promote liberal learning and impartiality, sell out to the fast food industry, credit-card companies, and other dubious "free enterprises" that capitalize of one or more of the seven deadly sins?

Maybe it's because state "universities" have become little more than expensive factories where mediocre students learn skills that will serve them well in the middle-rung corporate positions for which their "degrees" prepare them. Learning obedience to Taco Bell, KFC... it's all part of the training. These corporations need fresh meat that's smart enough to take customer service calls, but not curious enough to question the ethics of huckstering horrible products and services to the weak of mind.

PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals

What about the Popcorn Chicken? Doesn't anyone care about the Popcorn Chicken??

Millions of animals are crying out to you "please don't hurt us!", how long will you ignore the cruelty?

Anyone want to bet that they allow Mc D's or Burger King when the option presents itself?

If college students want to eat fast food, gator, they can travel 1.9 miles to the intersection of Ben Hill Griffin and Corkscrew where they're free to stuff their faces until the cows scream mercy.

I don't want to limit anyone's freedom of choice.

I do want to limit on public-school grounds greedy corporations who sell the worst kind of calories to the poorest, least educated, most vulnerable segment of society by constantly bombarding everyone's precious mental environment with foolish ads loaded with imagery and deceit. Not to mention the targeting of toddlers and children by companies like McDonald's.

Universities should, for once, live up to their purpose of higher education and rise above any sort of corporate influence. But, like I stated above, that won't happen because most of the thousands of schools that call themselves universities and colleges in the US exist only to train the vast majority of students for a lifetime of obedience. Work for the man, make a little money, consume unnecessary gadgets, impress the neighbors. To hell with curiosity, liberal understanding, refined consumption, moral responsibility, the future of the planet.

It's sad that the US, once a rebellious and thoughtful nation, has been reduced to huckstering fatty burgers and fried potatoes to an ever-increasing homogenized, mass-culture world population.

It's the same reason most college campuses allow credit-card companies to prey on the weak of willpower by hooking 18-year-old kids into 23% APR debt. Again, however, a debt-riddled college graduate is the perfect corporate employee. He can't afford to blow the whistle on left-handed business practices. He needs that job, and KFC likes it that way, especially if he's on commission. Employees like this are the "account executives" out there trying to "open new accounts" by lobbying college presidents to allow KFC on campuses.

I wonder if this had been Subway, would all these comments be the same???

PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals

Hahahaha good one o2bcd8d!!!

Once again one group pushing their thoughts and beliefs on everyone else. I dont push cows, sushi, frog legs and whatever else I choose to eat on everyone nor do I critisize my vegan eating cousins and their restaurant. Eat what you want, visit the restaurants you choose to eat at and blow off the places you dont agree with. We all have choices, keep it that way.

Yea, I agree with ya Gator, I tried to be an Vegetarian once, and it cost MORE $$$ than eating a meal with meat and took more time to prepare.

KFC did get rid of Trans fat but it's still loaded with Saturated fat.
As for PETA, do they think chickens make good pets? And should be treated as such before they are slaughtered?

"i don't particularly like golf, but i'm not out there crying about the fertilizers and stuff used."

Oh my God. A deep thinker runs among us, ecoterror.

And then there's boone1, bemoaning the "stupid kids" who are "recking" choice for the rest of us.

And finally, comes GaterHater07, who brags that America is the inventor of fast food and has made it one of its biggest industries, and who seems oblivious to the fact that Americans are fat, sclerotic, diabetic and -- although probably not as a result of slurping Gut Bucket chicken -- dumber than rocks if the current state of Southwest Florida, that bellwether for the nation, is any evidence.

FGCU. The new beacon of intellectual prowess, where the conservatives are drunked out in the frat house and the liberals lack the intellectual rigor to even define their foes with consistency.

Yes, limit more choices, more big government, more law suits for stuff that's your own fault. Get over yourselves people. What ever happened to personal choice and responsibility? This country is politically correcting itself to a breaking point.

I bet they would allow Starbucks. Coffee drinking Liberals!!

hahahah these posts are hilarious

im an fgcu student and i can tell you that they can get rid of all of them franchises and I would be perfectly happy; but for those livin on campus (which is sooo boring, i hear, with rarely any activities) i guess its the way to go.
And how bout having a real cafeteria for a change instead of pushin for fast food????

Hmmm....

Lets see now.
- I am allergic to Wheat and Corn (just about everything is made with those).
- Also Mushrooms (just a tiny slice), Spent two weeks in the hospital after anaphylactic and septic shock, then 6 months on IV antibiotics.
- I am allergic to Soy, ALL soy products. (A favorite of VEGANS everywhere). And countless other grains, nuts & other non-meat foods.

So I guess the past 10 million years of human evolution hunting wild animals for food and developing our digestive systems was a mere waste of time; and can be easily overcome by just a few millenia of humans gathering roots, nuts & berries and finally crop farming??

That makes sense; Why we should all be VEGAN... Seems like the OTHER 8 Billion people on the planet just aren't evolving fast enough. We need to get a move on to keep up with the ENLIGHTENED SELF-ANOINTED VEGANS. See you in another couple million years when I have finally re-incarnated to BRAHMA and truly see the light.

Here's an idea... How about 'PETA' Pit.

Yummy sliced & diced Vegans and Vegetarians, wrapped in Bacon & deep fried.

Mmmmm Mmmmmm Gooooooood!
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Vegetarians, I love vegetarians. I eat them all the time!

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