Spencer Pratt's recently leaked rap about chickens, "Ain't No Thang but a Chicken Wing," was apparently intended to be pitched as an ad for KFC. But it's hard to imagine that any lyrics would entice people to want to eat the flesh of chickens who live their entire lives mired in their own waste and filth before being shackled upside down by their fragile legs and having their throats cut while they are still conscious.

PETA has sent Spencer a video showing how KFC abuses these animals, along with a letter asking him to consider recording an anti-KFC rap. In fact, I think I feel some mad rhymes coming on:

Hmm. Maybe we'd both better leave hip-hop to the pros and find other ways to tell KFC to do right by chickens.

In other KFC news, a family in Sylmar, California, had to rush to the hospital when they became ill after eating a bucket of KFC in which they discovered a maggot. But even if the food hadn't contained fly larvae, its off-the-charts fat and cholesterol content and the hideous cruelty behind its production would have been plenty sickening.

Written by Jeff Mackey

Last night, Lady Gaga tried once again to shock the world, this time by wearing a "meat dress" during her acceptance of the Video of the Year award at MTV's Video Music Awards. Lately, Lady Gaga has been having a hard time keeping her act "over the top." Wearing a dress made out of cuts of dead cows is offensive enough to bring comment, but someone should whisper in her ear that there are more people who are upset by butchery than who are impressed by it—and that means a lot of young people will not be buying her records if she keeps this stuff up. On the other hand, maybe it was fake and she'll talk about that later. If not, what's next: the family cat made into a hat? Meat is the decomposing flesh of a tormented animal who didn't want to die, and after a few hours under the TV lights, it would smell like the rotting flesh it is and likely be crawling in maggots—not too attractive, really. The stunt is bringing lots of people to PETA.org to download a copy of our vegetarian/vegan starter kit, so I guess we should be glad.

A wonderful side note to mention, Ellen DeGeneres (who is vegan herself), presented Gaga with a veggie bikini and suggested she try that next time she wants to make a statement. Thanks, Ellen!

Written by Ingrid E. Newkirk