KFC Kentucky Fired Chicken ..genetically engineered/altered foods *REBUTTAL'S

Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:03:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: KFC documentation?

To: EDitor@badbusinessbureau.com

I thank you for posting a follow-up on the accusation about KFC using genetically engineered chickens
(http://www.ripoffreport.com/view.asp?id=5121)

I posted a rebuttal on this, so I will reply to you by e-mail.

I went to my local KFC and noticed that they do have the
word "chicken" prominently displayed on their menus as
well as coupons as well.

In addition, when you type in
"kentuckyfriedCHICKEN.com," it pulls right to their site. I wonder if any of these people who believe that the "Government" (notice the vague reference) prohibited it from using the word "chicken," believe that they would be allowed to display the word ever-so-prominently on their menus and web site.

In addition, the original post by "Ms. Morgan" states that the research on this issue was done at the University of New Hampshire...however, the university denies ever conducting such a study, as seen here:
http://www.unh.edu/BoilerPlate/kfc.html

This is such a blatant urban legend and is comical to me, but also scary that people (even teachers) would actually believe this and propagate it on web sites which I find valuable and credible like ripoffreport.com.

I have also found links on several sites to actual KFC
statements debunking the rumor... but they have since been removed as these allegations are several years old and the e-mail is no more than a chain letter that has been circulating ever since...

In addition, I did a search at Time and Newsweek and could find no articles written about this, as the rebuttal by "Bob Cobb" suggested.

Thanks for taking this issue seriously and taking initiative to discover the truth yourselves. I will continue to visit ripoffreport and offer my input as well.

Eric Diez

This email is a rebuttal to RipOff #5121.

It was sent by Bob Cobb at spieslikeus1985@yahoo.com.



KFC Kentucky Fired Chicken ..genetically engineered/altered foods *REBUTTAL (#5121)



They filed the following rebuttal to the above Rip-Off Report:



Their email: spieslikeus1985@yahoo.com

Their name: Bob Cobb



Their relationship to the company: Consumer Suggestion



Rebuttal:



Kentucky Fried Chicken was forced by government regulations to drop the word chicken from all of their business actions (name, menu, commercials, etc). They had to do this because they do not use real chickens, but some genetically processed form of chicken. All of their commercials never mention the word chicken, and their menu in the restaurant does not either. This is not some "rumor" on the Internet, that is a bunch of crap. Just because you don't believe something, don't blame it on an

Internet rumor. This has not been in the news that much, but it has been brought up in magazines such as Time and Newsweek.



EDitor's Note:::::::::::



I just went to the coupon section of the Sunday paper here in Southern California. In the KFC advertisements, in each of the coupons it says the word chicken.



I can almost remember the wording of a KFC tv commercial. They do use the word chicken there too.



I have read they do genetically alter their chickens to grow faster. Genetically, that may be proven to be harmful to consumers in the future. Making chickens grow faster means big savings to KFC and other producers of chickens, and I mean producers, because that's exactly what they are doing. Producing chickens. Years ago I think they called it raising chickens.



To the author of this Rip-off Report above. Please show us some documentation as to your disturbing claims. You stated above "The government has told them to change all of their menus so they do not say chicken anywhere." .. Please send us that statement from the government and where it is published.



EDitor@badbusinessbureau.com

This email is a rebuttal to RipOff #5121.

It was sent by Eric Diez at ericdiez@yahoo.com.



KFC Kentucky Fired Chicken ..genetically engineered/altered foods (#5121)



They filed the following rebuttal to the above Rip-Off Report:



Their email: ericdiez@yahoo.com

Their name: Eric Diez



Their relationship to the company: Advocate



Rebuttal:

This is not a personal attack, but I am appauled that an elementary school teacher would believe an e-mail forward that has been circulating around the internet like this, let alone SHARE IT WITH OUR YOUTH. You are a very irresponsible teacher for simply believing this, and if you were to ever step into a KFC restaurant, you would see the word chicken plastered all

over the place. Try and do some research before you post on a site like this, otherwise you ruin it's credibility, as well as your own.. and lord knows, our teachers do not need anymore of that. A simple search on the internet of "KFC Hoax" will bring up hundreds of pages debunking this urban legend... or if you do not know how to do a search on the internet (i would not be surprised)