PETA Earns Rebuke From Dalai Lama!

[Faram]

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PETA Earns Rebuke From Dalai Lama

NEW DELHI (AP) - The office of the Dalai Lama said Friday the animal rights group PETA misrepresented the nature of a request by the spiritual leader that fast-food chain KFC not open an outlet in his homeland, Tibet.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, based in Norfolk, Va., released a document Thursday from the Dalai Lama asking that the Louisville, Ky., restaurant chain ``abandon its plan to open restaurants in Tibet.''

But the Dalai Lama's heading on the document, ``APPEAL,'' was changed to ``Dear Mr. Novak,'' a reference to CEO David Novak of Yum! Restaurants, the parent company of KFC. PETA then issued a news release saying the Dalai Lama had ``dispatched a letter'' to the company.

The rest of the text of the Dalai Lama's appeal was unchanged, including his comment that seeing a chicken slaughtered outside a kitchen in India in 1965 made him decide to become a vegetarian.

The Dalai Lama's secretary, Tenzin Geyche Tethong, said in a letter faxed Friday to Ingrid Newkirk of PETA in Norfolk, that ``We strongly object to your changing the nature of the appeal without seeking our approval.''

Tethong said in the letter, made available to The Associated Press, that the Dalai Lama's office had ``intentionally sent ... a general appeal,'' and had rejected a PETA request that a letter be addressed to Novak.

In Louisville, Yum! spokesman Jonathan Blum said Thursdat the company has no current plans to enter Tibet.

Peta Lies! Naaw that can't be!

[Stormin]

They should stick to lying about what people who are already dead have said