"I'm sure Chris can't wait 'till KFC stops torturing chickens so he can change his name back," Pamela Anderson said in a statement, adding that the chicken abuse "is awful and has to stop."

"People don't believe me at first when I tell them my name, but it never fails to spark a discussion," Chris Garnett said in a statement. "Many vow to boycott KFC after I explain the company's indifference to cruelty to animals."

 PETA's complaints against KFC arose from video footage shot last year recording alleged mistreatment of birds at a Pilgrim's Pride Corp. plant in Moorefield, West Virginia. Pilgrim's Pride supply KFC with poultry.

However, Yum! Brands, the parent company of KFC, have disputed these claims of cruelty to the birds and in June, a grand jury refused to indict former workers at the West Virginia chicken plant.