PETA vs Larry Bird

PETA wants Larry Legend to help stop the slaughter of so many birds (what, you didn’t know this was a serious issue?): PETA hopes to help draw attention to the plight of birds by appealing to another bird. Larry Bird, that is. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter on Wednesday to the Indiana Pacers president, asking him to stop endorsing McDonald’s.  PETA claims that in McDonald’s U.S. operations, ‘chickens still have their throats cut while they are conscious and many are scalded to death in defeathering tanks,’ while McDonald’s European operations render chickens unconscious before they are processed. ‘With the nagging back problems that plagued him throughout his career, Bird is the first person who should sympathize with the millions of chickens who are killed for McDonald’s — chickens whose wings, legs and backs are routinely broken,’ PETA director Dan Shannon, who describes himself as a lifetime Boston Celtics fan, said in a release.”