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PETA member wants roadside memorial for chickens
Assoc. Press ^ | 02/06/2014 | Assoc. Press

Posted on 02/06/2014 12:45:34 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — An animal rights advocate wants to place a roadside memorial in Georgia to remember several chickens killed in a highway wreck.

A member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed an application for the memorial Wednesday with the Georgia Department of Transportation.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: napl; peta
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A moment of silence - please - in honor of the chickens who died on US 129.
1 posted on 02/06/2014 12:45:34 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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2 posted on 02/06/2014 12:45:47 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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“PETA member wants roadside memorial for chickens”

People in Hell want ice-water.


3 posted on 02/06/2014 12:46:10 PM PST by Antihero101607
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The proposed 10-foot tombstone that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has requested be placed on U.S. 129 at the site of a wreck involving a tractor-trailer carrying live chickens.


4 posted on 02/06/2014 12:46:26 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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OK, time for a “why did the chickens cross the road?”


5 posted on 02/06/2014 12:46:29 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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Only if cheese and pickles are added.


6 posted on 02/06/2014 12:46:46 PM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Stick a KFC bucket on a stick.
Jam stick into the ground.
Problem solved.


7 posted on 02/06/2014 12:47:08 PM PST by Texas resident
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But PETA kills animals as well...

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/


8 posted on 02/06/2014 12:47:30 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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I think a plaque in the nearest Roadkill Cafe would suffice.


9 posted on 02/06/2014 12:48:33 PM PST by Rennes Templar
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PETA hopes "the memorial will offer food for thought to motorists in Gainesville, a city often dubbed the ‘Poultry Capital of the World,’" according to a news release from the organization.

LINK.

Food for thought, indeed. Anybody besides me thinks Fried Chicken sounds good for dinner tonight?

 

10 posted on 02/06/2014 12:49:40 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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Would that be a memorial for the chickens who crossed the road or the ones who didn’t???


11 posted on 02/06/2014 12:49:42 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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Were they not all belted in. No car seat. This is series.


12 posted on 02/06/2014 12:50:45 PM PST by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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How about a memorial for the thousand of animals they’ve euthanized?


13 posted on 02/06/2014 12:50:52 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral)
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spring is coming, (despite recent events) and the
eco-terrorists/wackos nuts are waking-up.

14 posted on 02/06/2014 12:51:41 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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"..I could whip up something like a fork and a knife"

15 posted on 02/06/2014 12:52:15 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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I think this...

This was the first memorial PETA wanted to erect.

16 posted on 02/06/2014 12:53:26 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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I just wiped out about 20,000 ants yesterday and haven’t had a single call from PETA yet.


17 posted on 02/06/2014 12:53:48 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." - Lavrentiy Beria (& Eric Holder))
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And don’t forget,

PETA = people eating tasty animals!


18 posted on 02/06/2014 12:54:05 PM PST by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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Plaque says:

“They died trying valiantly trying to get to the other side”

19 posted on 02/06/2014 12:54:32 PM PST by PATRIOT1876
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I just passed on this morning. It said “KFC”


20 posted on 02/06/2014 12:55:02 PM PST by CrappieLuck
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