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Chrissie Hynde descends on West Philly McDonald's, is most certainly not lovin' it
Photo | © Scott Weiner 2010 There's nothing better that I could've done in yesterday's scorching heat than stand on the corner of 40th and Walnut in University City and watch Chrissie Hynde sweat. No, she wasn't doing a revue of her hits with The Pretenders (though a bunch of chunky dudes toting along her old albums for autograph purposes would've loved that). Instead, she, along with a nice young woman in a chicken suit and several People for the Ethical Treatment of Animalspeeps were at that corner's McDonald's for PETA's new "I'm Hatin' It" campaign. Yes, the anti-McDonald's blitz already has billboards about the conglomerate's evil bird-slaughtering technique — scalding, maiming. I don't eat that drek to begin with. If I did, PETA's handouts to kids — a "Chicken McCruetly Unhappy Meal" with a cut-out of a mean Ronald clown, a rubber chicken, a blood-as-ketchup packet and info on how intelligent birds are killed — would get me off everything Mickey D offers for life. That said, Hynde, a long-time PETA lady, came by and stood on top of McDonald's trash can and yelled out her "I'm hatin' it" mantra while asking the crowd to choose knowledge over ignorance when buying lunch. Along with sweating off her formidable mascara (me too, hon!), Hynde told the assembled mass just how lucky we were to live in a country where peaceful protest such as this was allowed. Mere moments before, a Ronald McDonald House station wagon passed before us. No word on how the lady in the chicken suit fared. More photos after the jump. Photo | © Scott Weiner 2010 rory Posted 2010-05-28 15:53:40
Chrissie Hynde descends on West Philly McDonald's, is most certainly not lovin' it
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*inserts snide comment about rich people protesting the only remaining food on that block that non-penn associated people can afford regularly* *notes this is better than hugs for puppies...gets confused*
Seconds Rory.
I prefer organizations like the Food Trust, that work on getting affordable, fresh, "real" food into lower income neighborhoods instead of organizations like PETA that spend their energies on negativity-based activities like hate campaigns.
The first photo is spectacular and really sums up the whole protest. Kudos Scott.
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