Campaigner kicked out of KFC for telling diners to go vegan
AN ACTIVIST was ordered out of a Leicester branch of KFC after confronting customers and urging them to go vegan.
Tarion Partridge targeted the chain’s High Street branch to film a YouTube video to promote the vegan cause.
She told the Mercury: “I was nervous, I’ll admit that as it was the very first thing of its kind that I’d done in public. But I went into KFC to show the truth, the cause mattered most. I was doing it for the chicks.”
Carrying a video screen which she said was displaying images of conditions inside chicken farms, the 24-year-old approached diners, telling them meat production was cruel.
But her shock tactics received a frosty reception from staff and customers alike, including the daughter of a chicken farmer.
Her YouTube post shows her entering the restaurant and declaring the place “smells of death”.
Several diners told her they wanted to eat their meals in peace.
“I’m eating my chicken,” one man is heard telling her. However, she remained determined to make her point and is later seen meeting a woman who is the daughter of a chicken farmer.
The woman says she believes there is little she can do to help out the chicks, but Ms Partridge replies: “You could stop eating it.
“You stop buying them, it will stop them farming chickens.”
In response, the woman, who appears fairly sympathetic to the vegan cause, takes exception with the campaigner’s approach, asking: “So you’re quite happy to force your opinion on other people?”
The video next sees Ms Partridge speaking to two men eating a KFC and asking them: “Do you like dogs? Do you have a dog? Do you like your dog? Would you like it if your dog was taken to a slaughterhouse, body chopped up into pieces? No-one would eat dogs, why?”
“Because it’s weird,” she is told.
She replies: “It’s weird because you’ve been conditioned to think it’s weird. You know a chicken’s only four weeks old when they’re murdered.”
“Still tasty though,” replies one of the men. As the exchanges continue, the video, which has been viewed on YouTube more than 8,000 times, shows members of staff approach Ms Partridge. “We don’t want our customers to see that,” one tells her. Speaking to the Mercury after the visit, Ms Partridge, whose YouTube channel has more than 2,000 subscribers, said the threat of police being called did not deter her.
She said: “When they asked me to leave, I just thought that people were being denied the right to see this footage. “Yes, it’s uncomfortable and shocking, but it needs to be seen. If the police did arrive I’d have tried to make them go vegan too. “More people are waking up and seeing the truth which is great, but more people need to see what’s happening out there. I won’t give up doing what I’m doing.
“It’s so easy to go vegan these days. It’s 2022, there are so many alternatives out there you don’t need to eat chicken or any other meat. “They get treated in shocking conditions and it’s wrong. I’m doing what’s right and maybe I’ll return to Leicester to see if more people have woken up to the cause.”
I DID IT FOR THE CHICKS, FLEDGLING
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