People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has written a letter to Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine with an offer of a lifetime. They want to rent his state's Botetourt Correctional Center building which is among a number of state facilities to be closed because of that budget of theirs. So, what plans does PETA have for an empty prison? But of course they want to turn it into a "Chicken Empathy Museum." Why? You already know why, first to raise awareness about the treatment of these intelligent, thinking, feeling, almost human like fowl, who don't deserve to be treated like chickens. Second to paint a mural of a chicken's fate. The museum, it says, would also feature a "Chicken Empathy Restaurant" that would serve items like faux-chicken drumsticks and chickenless pot pie. (we always wonder why vegetarian food always has to look like the cooked animals they hate to see butchered?)
"In addition to creating jobs, the museum would convert a building that was built for the purpose of incarceration into a tribute to liberation,"
A spokesperson for Kaine, said that the state doesn't lease to private entities, with the exception of cases in which such leases are already in place when the state buys a building.
