The late Beatrice Arthur appeared in a PETA ad in Thursday’s Chicago Tribune.
The anti-McDonald’s campaign featured an image of the Golden Girls actress with the headline “McCruelty: It’s enough to make Bea Arthur roll over in her grave.”
According to PETA, Arthur, who died last year on April 25th, left money for the organization in her will.
The ad reads: “Death couldn’t stop this Golden Girl from fighting the Golden Arches’ cruel slaughter practices. A longtime PETA campaigner against factory-farm abuse, Bea Arthur left money to PETA in her will and we’re using it to pressure McDonald’s to switch to a less violent, USDA-approved chicken-slaughter method. With this new system, millions of birds would be spared broken legs and wings and being scalded to death in defeathering tanks. It’s even supported by McDonald’s own animal welfare adsvisors. But McDonald’s CEO Jim Skinner refuses to make the switch. Mr. Skinner, as Bea Arthur’s Maude character would say, “God’ll get you for that””
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