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PETA Suggests Renting Prison For Chicken Empathy Museum

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

PETA Suggests Renting Prison For Chicken Empathy Museum http://mystateline.com/content/fulltext/?cid=99621 Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009 (Roanoke, VA) -- PETA's executive vice president sent a letter to Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine on Monday offering to rent a state prison facility and turn it into America's first chicken empathy museum. Tracy Reiman wrote on behalf of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals organization, suggesting the Botetourt Correctional Center in Troutville would be a perfect location for the museum when the prison closes. Governor Kaine has order Botetourt and two other prisons closed to help reduce a one-point-three-five-billion-dollar state shortfall. PETA's plan would feature educational displays and a restaurant that would serve faux-chicken drumsticks and vegetarian foods...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).