In a move that is right out of PETA’s playbook, the animal rights organization has penned a letter to the Grammy Award-winning Zac Brown Band asking the members to consider the plight of factory farmed animals.

The band, who is best known for the No.1 hit “Country Fried,” also received a basket of faux meat products, compliments of PETA.

Not surprisingly the band’s trademark tune is referenced in the correspondence.

“In your song ‘Chicken Fried,’ you praise the simple pleasures of life—a cool drink, a home filled with love, enjoying the sunshine—all pastimes denied to the millions of cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals raised for food on factory farms every year.”

Hopefully the band can learn from fellow country superstar and vegetarian Carrie Underwood, although I am not holding my breath waiting for the band’s re-worked hit aptly titled “Tofurky Fried.”

UPDATE 2/10: Zac Brown Band refuses PETA's request to go 'Tofu Fried' 


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