PETA wants monument honoring chickens killed in Gainesville truck wreck. WTW?

[mfcorey1]

We’ve all seen the wooden crosses and other roadside memorials to loved ones killed in automobile accidents. Three years ago, the Georgia Department of Transportation, deeming the makeshift memorials a distraction to drivers and a safety hazard, began offering to place state-approved memorials at the sites of fatal wrecks.
For a $100 fee, GDOT places a white sign with the name of the deceased under the words, “Drive Safely, In Memory.”
Wednesday, a member of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, filed an application with GDOT to have a memorial placed at the Hall County site where a truck hauling live chickens overturned on Jan. 27.
The drivers of the chicken truck and the other vehicle involved were not seriously injured in the predawn crash on U.S. 129 near Gainesville, but “dozens” of the truck’s cargo were apparently not so fortunate, according to the local PETA member who filed the request for a “giant tombstone” to be erected in memory of the chickens.


http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/peta-wants-monument-honoring-chickens-killed-in-ga/ndFdS/

[former9thward]

1. PETA jumped the shark so, so long ago.

[jsr]

2. In memoriam

[Lancero]

26. And sometime tommarow...

On second thought, better not post that.

[1000words]

3. Some Barbeque sauce maker should donate ...

a monument of a giant bottle of sauce.

[Adrahil]

4. How about a bronzed KFC bucket? Nt

[byronius]

5. Mock away. I get their point.

PETA's shaking up traditional views on animal suffering the same way suffragettes and civil rights marchers did.

There's hard science that animals feel the same things we do. Mocking other's efforts to raise consciousness -- are you doing something worthwhile?

Are you?

[snooper2]

6. I think I did,

I had Taco Hell for lunch instead of KFC (but I did have Popeyes yesterday )

[UncleMuscles]

7. my lunch was halal

[Arcanetrance]

11. Sometimes PETA is their own worst enemy

I get the point about shaking things up and raising awareness for animals. I support that 100% everyone should be more aware of where their food comes from and the conditions those animals live in. Not just for the sake of the animals but for their own health as well. But like I said earlier sometimes PETA is just so outrageous in their approach that instead of causing people to think it just causes them to joke.

[byronius]

13. I understand your point. It's hard to judge that stuff, however.

I have a brother-in-law that started by mocking PETA's methods; they drew him to the website for more hilarity, where he viewed some pig-farm torture videos that horrified him. He's moved substantially away from meat as a result, and this is a Republican we're talking about.

I think sometimes the jokes mask discomfort at the concept of equivalency in animal suffering. It's not easy to make the leap, and once someone does -- well, awareness can be a painful thing.

[Arcanetrance]

20. Awareness is a difficult thing

I used to be one of those people making jokes at vegetarians and such. I had my eyes opened when I worked doing processing. That changed alot of how I view things

[byronius]

24. Yah, me too, exactly. I was born to be a Texas boy -- meat with every meal.

I went vegan a few years ago. Not so much for philosophical reasons as for health -- holy shit, did it remake me. Lost weight, no four-colds-a-year (I have not been sick since, WTF?!?!), snap back from exercise, and I swear my thought processes sharpened up. It was a weird event in my life. I believe I must have had a low-level dairy allergy.

My doctor objected, then did some research. My blood tests came back textbook-perfect; she said I've now reduced my risk of all the standard male cancers significantly.

Then she went vegan.

[sked14]

14. But PETA makes it soooooo easy to mock them

when they do such stupid shit like this.

[byronius]

21. I'd like to point out that it's a single guy, not the national organization.

Plus, we wouldn't be having this conversation at all without this 'stupid shit'.

I believe that can be classified as a successful gambit on his part.

[Major Nikon]

25. Actually they are turning more people off

PETA's real agenda is veganism. No reduction in animal suffering is ever going to satisfy them.

[byronius]

28. You have some evidence of that?

And since the number of vegans in the US has doubled every year for the last five years and includes Bill Clinton and Al Gore --

Maybe it's working.

[Major Nikon]

38. Must have been the nude girl stunts

[byronius]

40. My favorite.

[frogmarch]

32. I get it too. nt

[yeoman6987]

39. Really?

[HappyMe]

8. That's ridiculous.

[clarice]

9. How about a sign on the road saying

Chicken crossed here.

[NM_Birder]

10. what about all the eggs .....won't anyone think of the eggs for gods sake !

egg hating bastids !

[sked14]

12. Fried chicken, yummmmm.

[yawnmaster]

15. Why did the chicken cross the road?

because it wanted a memorial sign.

[sakabatou]

16. ...what?

[TheMathieu]

17. My first complete sentence as a toddler was: "I like chicken."

[MineralMan]

18. Here's a suitable one from Indonesia

And here's a church that looks like a chicken:



What can I say?

[yawnmaster]

19. Do we have a list of the names of deceased? eom

[Solly Mack]

22. They could place it near the chicken monument.

[Iggo]

23. PETA attempts to piss off the easily-pissed-off.

Succeeds.

[NightWatcher]

27. Marietta, Ga has a well known chicken monument for the millions slaughtered

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Chicken

[Egalitarian Thug]

35. All directions are based on the Big Chicken in Marietta.

When did they put up the Pepsi logo?

[NightWatcher]

36. And now they want to put a baseball stadium off Cobb Pkwy

Sure, because there's not enough traffic around there anyway.

[Egalitarian Thug]

37. Why? The Braves' stadium is only about 20 years old, has it even been paid off yet?

But that Pepsi logo on the Big Chicken is surely a sign of the apocalypse.

Sometimes I think leaving was a mistake and then I hear of these things and remember why I made the decision in the first place.

[joeybee12]

29. Actually, that's money well-spent...only $100 gets them a lot of publicity...nt

[Initech]

30. Peter Griffin's revenge?

[Aerows]

31. People Electing To Audacity

Nutjobs, one and all. I'd think they gave a crap about animals, until I read that they want to put down pets because they think humans and animals shouldn't have a co-responsible relationship. Cats have guarded grain houses for centuries, and dogs have guarded herd animals, as well. PETA is a group of idiots with an idiotic agenda and a harmful one, at that, if it came to fruition. Most of their members don't know the screwed up ideas the upper echelon have, they just think they are about "saving the animals".

[Boom Sound 416]

33. So they died unjustly on the way to the slaughterhouse?

[Logical]

34. PETA is a joke at this point. n-t

[Travis_0004]

41. I agree with PETA

This was a very sad incident. On January 27th, those chickens died before their time.

They were not scheduled to be killed until January 29th, at 4pm.

Very sad.

[madrchsod]

42. i think this might be a good one

it certainly would draw attention to the chickens who were killed in the predawn accident and plight of chickens across america.

sadly they didn't live to cluck the beginning of a new day....