A graphic protest took place Monday at a Charlottesville fast food restaurant.

A member of the animal rights group PETA dressed as Ronald McDonald. He hung up-side down at the McDonald’s restaurant with his throat cut by a giant chicken under a banner reading McDonald’s cuts live animals’ throats.

McDonald’s says it slaughters all of its chickens in as humane a manner as possible.

PETA says it is protesting against the suffering McDonald’s inflicts on the birds.

PETA Protester Ashley Byrne says, “PETA’s chicken is getting her revenge today against Ronald McDonald for representing a company that tortures chickens in ways that would warrant felony cruelty charges if dogs or cats were the victims.”

PETA representatives called police when a man protested their protest by eating a chicken sandwich he just bought from McDonald’s. He left before police arrived.

Protest at VA Fast Food Restaurant on WHSV

Not much to say about this, except that people in this area have a great sense of humour about PETA. Anything they do is just a big joke, and locals always seem to invent fun ways to get back at them. I’m only sorry I missed this, I would’ve joined that guy in having a chicken sandwich.

I don’t doubt that residents of other areas have the same knack for making PETA protests look about as credible as a college frat party, but I hear about it the most whenever they come around here.

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