Ryan Gosling Sticks Up for Chicks

Published April 30, 2008 by PETA Staff. Last Updated October 14, 2013.

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I wanted to do a joke here about the fact that “gosling” means baby goose, but it’s not coming, so I’ll just play this one straight: Ryan Gosling, the Oscar-nominated star of Lars and the Real Girl, Murder by Numbers, and Half Nelson, has just fired off a letter on behalf of PETA to John Bitove (who runs the show for most KFCs in Canada, Ryan’s home country) urging him to stop Canadian KFCs’ suppliers worst abuses of chickens, who are killed when they’re still just babies. “The time is ripe to do the right thing,” he writes. “By adopting the basic recommendations made by PETA and scientific experts (including raising birds in a more natural manner and employing less cruel slaughter methods), you could dramatically improve the lives and deaths of chickens ….”

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And if you haven’t seen Lars and the Real Girl yet, you should rent it. Definitely one of my favorite movies this year.