"The PETA letter, signed by the group's executive vice president Tracy Reiman, ended with a request to Jindal to "please contact me so that we can begin the planning process."
I'm sure Bobby will get right on it!!
Posted on 03/12/2009 6:46:41 AM PDT by BBell
BATON ROUGE -- Chickens have feelings, too. And unappreciated brains.
That's the message delivered Wednesday to Gov. Bobby Jindal by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as the group suggested that Louisiana use state funds to turn a closing Pilgrim's Pride poultry processing plant in Farmerville into a "Chicken Empathy Museum."
"The museum could feature exhibits such as video footage from research . . . showing how smart chickens are," the group wrote in a letter to Jindal. "The Chicken Empathy Museum will have educational displays that highlight interesting facts about chickens, including that chickens are intelligent animals with mental abilities comparable to cats, dogs and even primates."
PETA, known for its publicity stunts to attract attention to its vegetarian and anti-fur agenda, keyed into Jindal's offer to spend $20 million in state money to assist another company attempting to buy the north Louisiana plant from Pilgrim's Pride, which is in bankruptcy and reducing operations. The closing will put 1,300 people out of work.
Jindal said no to PETA's offer to use its funds along with state money to turn the plant into a "monument to compassion" honoring the barnyard fowl for its intellectual and social qualities rather than as a food.
"This issue is about the future of our people. Not chickens," Jindal said. "I'm from Louisiana. We think of the chicken first and foremost as an eating animal. I think this is a lot of squawking about nothing."
PETA suggested a restaurant at the museum serving "heart-friendly and delicious faux-chicken nuggets and a gift shop that could provide free plush chickens for kids, with tags reading, 'I am not a nugget!'
"Outside the museum, children could clamber through a preserved chicken-transport truck to experience how cramped and uncomfortable the trucks are," PETA
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"The PETA letter, signed by the group's executive vice president Tracy Reiman, ended with a request to Jindal to "please contact me so that we can begin the planning process."
I'm sure Bobby will get right on it!!
Jeez, what a bunch of morons.
Ah, that ain’t chicken.
that sign should read “ I am not a nugget (yet)
“Chicken Empathy” - - Is that like fried chicken?
I say turn it into the worlds largest KFC.
Peta...call 911
Remember that the extremes define the middle. These people aren’t nuts. They’re radicals with an agenda ... by taking ridiculously extreme positions, they drag the middle in their direction and define the terms of discussion.
Bubba aksked for more chicken and ma looked in the bucket and said, “Sorry Bubba, the chicken empahthy.”
I have a better idea! How ‘bout a “Taxpayer Empathy Museum”? Lawmakers would go there and do things like try to find a parking place, buy gas for their car, have to get groceries, balance a check book, do their own laundry, etc.
It would be all the things that we taxpayers have to do to get along that the self-proclaimed royal class of elected public officials don’t ever have to give a thought to doing.
They could spend a day in traffic court trying to take care of parking tickets or running a red light or speeding.
This is NOT satire!
"In the end it's all about bringing attention to it," Perle said."<<<
The last two sentences in the article says it all.
LMAO! There ya’ go!
I'm sure the fact that the hens were fed by her had nothing to do with it.
I bought a t-shirt in Bozeman 2 weeks ago that has almost that same phrase on the back. Love it!
And Stroker Ace can be the new museum’s spokesman. The Fastest Chicken in the South, baby!
(For any of you who have missed this classic of American cinema, I highly recommend it. I hope BO included it in his gift set to Gordy.)
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