Pamela Anderson is clucking mad at KFC.
The Stacked star is teaming up with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to call for a boycott of the fast-food giant, alleging that the Colonel's secret recipe involves tortured chickens.
"I'm asking people to boycott KFC until the company demands that its suppliers stop crippling chickens and scalding them alive," Anderson said in a statement. "No animals should have to suffer this way, whether they're cats or dogs or chickens."
The all-critter-loving actress has agreed to narrate a new five-minute video that documents alleged incidents of chicken abuse at one slaughterhouse KFC utilizes to harvest its hens.
The PETA exposé, secretly recorded last June, shows plant workers at Pilgrim's Pride Corp., a KFC supplier based in Moorefield, West Virginia, kicking, throwing and stomping on the live birds.
Such treatment is far from finger-lickin' good, say Anderson and the animal-rights group, who claim other probes have turned up similar horrors in KFC-backed factories around the world. PETA has posted the video on its KentuckyFriedCruelty.com Website.
PETA is spending $100,000 to run TV and radio ads in major media markets. The 30-second spots feature a snippet of the Anderson-voiced video.
Jonathan Blum, vice president of KFC parent company Yum! Brands, rejected PETA's claims of animal cruelty.
"We have an independent panel of outside experts who set our high standards," Blum told the Associated Press. "They are the same standards that all our competitors use to insure humane treatment around the country."
The company states on its KFC.com Website that while it does not operate and own the farms, it requires its suppliers to keep its chickens in shelters that are "clean, well ventilated and protective...to maximize the comfort level of the birds." KFC also has processing guidelines demanding poultry factories stun and slaughter the chickens humanely.
This isn't the first poultry protest for Anderson. The former Baywatcher wrote a letter to the chain in October 2003 calling for a similar boycott. Others joining PETA's anti-KFC cabal include Paul McCartney, Chrissie Hynde and Russell Simmons.
Meanwhile, in a recent column in Jane magazine, Anderson pelted Jennifer Lopez and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs for wearing fur.
"People who wear fur smell like a dog in the rain. And they look fat and gross," Anderson railed. "Every season the furriers put propaganda everywhere that fur is taking off again, and they give free coats to idiots like Jennifer Lopez and Puff Daddy. It makes me nauseous."
Lopez has been PETA public enemy number one since debuting her fur-riffic Sweetface Fashion line earlier this year. The group launched the Website JLoDown.com, organized a protest last month at her restaurant in Pasadena, California, and is planning to picket the Los Angeles premiere of her new comedy, Monster-in-Law, this Friday. PETA will distribute DVDs interspersing images of Lopez with animals being skinned alive.
"To animals killed for their fur, Jennifer Lopez is the monster," PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk says in a statement. "She may be able to get the images of bloody, skinned foxes still alive and breathing out of her head, but we doubt that the moviegoers who watch this video will."
Aside from her pro-animal activism, Anderson is continuing her TV comeback. Her new Fox sitcom, Stacked, has garnered so-so ratings, averaging 7.9 million viewers on Wednesdays against ABC's hit Lost.