Tuesday June 12, 2007
Paris Hilton at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, CA. June 3, 2007.
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Is Paris Hilton for the birds? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has written to Hilton asking her to become a spokesperson for chickens’ rights, hoping that the incarcerated heiress will sympathize with the birds’ cramped quarters.
“We’re asking Paris to narrate our Kentucky Fried Cruelty video showing how chickens are routinely crammed into tiny cages and suffer broken wings and legs,” PETA’s Dan Mathews tells MSNBC’s The Scoop. “Unlike inmates at the jail in L.A., these animals get no reprieve or medical treatment.”
Hilton, 26, isn’t the first celebrity inmate the animal rights group has reached out to. “We have a good track record at reaching celebrities behind bars,” says Mathews. “When Martha Stewart was incarcerated we wrote her and got a very friendly reply saying that she’d stopped wearing fur, and when she got sprung she narrated PETA’s anti-fur video.”
And if Hilton does decide to come on board, the group already has a slogan ready for Hilton’s pro-poultry campaign: “KFC — that’s not hot.”
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