One of B.C.’s biggest stars ended her public feud with fast-food giant KFC in Vancouver yesterday.
Pamela Anderson rolled up to a KFC on Davie Street just after noon yesterday to mark the end of a Canadian campaign against KFC by the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
“The colonel would be pleased to have Pamela Anderson support his new faux-fried chicken sandwich,” said PETA campaigner Nicole Matthews.
Wearing large dark sunglasses and a black PETA T-shirt, the 41-year-old actress stepped out of a black SUV and greeted fans and curious onlookers. Amid a swarm of cameras, she marched into the restaurant, ordered a faux-chicken vegetarian sandwich and wolfed it down on the sidewalk while giving photographers the thumbs up.
Anderson, who was born in Ladysmith and discovered at a B.C. Lions game, has been among those attacking the fast food restaurant for the past five years over the way its chickens are farmed and slaughtered.
Anderson even narrated a PETA documentary about the chickens’ treatment.
However, over the past couple months, KFC (in Canada) has worked with PETA to improve the welfare of birds, including changing the way chickens are killed — using inert gas to render them unconscious instead of slitting their throats while still awak

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