Occupy KFC

Occupy Wall Street has already spread worldwide. Last month, it took a slight detour: “occupying” KFC. On November 16, a number of environmental activists “occupied” more than 150 of the fried-chicken restaurants and the fast-food chain’s Facebook page, in protest of the company’s use of a paper company linked to destroying wetland forests in the southern United States. This prompted a written statement from the corporation’s public relations office, citing KFC’s use of Sustainable Forestry Initiative-certified products. But, according to organizers Dogwood Alliance, this is a “misleading industry-driven” certification.