Can't wait to see the snack bar menu :D

[Ret10Echo]

Hooooweeeeh....betcha that the stuff at the snack bar TASTES LIKE CHICKEN


This just made me laugh...

PETA Asks Virginia for Chicken Museum
Museum at site of closing prison would attempt to generate poultry empathy
By MIKE TUNISON
Updated 2:15 PM EDT, Tue, Sep 15, 2009


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Humans eat a lot of chickens. But they don't pay much mind to the cruel conditions many chickens are put through prior to becoming a foodstuff. Mostly because humans are too busy being focused on the "chickens are tasty" thing. But PETA wants you to feel for your feathered dinner entree. And they see a museum as the best way to do it. A museum for chickens!

Yes, PETA wants to create the country's first "chicken empathy museum" in Virginia. In a letter sent to Gov. Tim Kaine, the organization is asking to rent out the closing Botetourt Correctional Center and use it for the museum grounds. To think, a building used for incarceration now a symbol for animal liberation! That's heady stuff.

So what sort of things would this museum have in order to generate some empathy for chickens?

The museum could feature exhibits that include video footage from research conducted at Bristol University in the U.K.--research that showed how chickens are intelligent animals with mental abilities comparable to cats, dogs, and even primates. It could also feature a restaurant that would serve heart-friendly and delicious faux-chicken drumsticks and chickenless pot pie and a gift shop that could provide free plush chickens for kids, with tags reading, "I Am Not a Nugget!" The museum would feature interactive displays, including one in which visitors have weighted backpacks strapped to their backs to simulate how large chickens' upper bodies can grow in proportion to their legs. The museum would also provide area residents with much-needed jobs.

[Sdiver]

But...but...There ALREADY is a museum dedicated to out tasty, feathered friend.

http://www.chickenfestival.com/sanders.htm

<------ eatin' a bucket of KFC Extra Cryspy.

[219seminole]

I guess PETA has not heard that in Peru the guinea pig is eaten. One of my co-workers is from Peru and she says that in New Jersey is a farm/ranch that produces great little critters for the table. A lot of Peruvian restaurants in Manassas so I'll bet someone is farming them here in Virginia.

[jw74]

Originally Posted by Ret10Echo

The museum would feature interactive displays, including one in which visitors have weighted backpacks strapped to their backs to simulate how large chickens' upper bodies can grow in proportion to their legs. The museum would also provide area residents with much-needed jobs.

Hmmm... a museum dedicated to ruck marching chickens?

I'll pass.

[kimberly]

The museum could feature exhibits that include video footage from research conducted at Bristol University in the U.K.--research that showed how chickens are intelligent animals with mental abilities comparable to cats, dogs, and even primates. It could also feature a restaurant that would serve heart-friendly and delicious faux-chicken drumsticks and chickenless pot pie and a gift shop...

Maybe they're thinking turkey or beef instead of chicken...???

[Red Flag 1]

Smart chickens.

Somehow I can't shake off the picture in my head of, "a chicken watching a card trick"; sorta like our congress......now there's a chicken museum!

They may be cookin G pigs and such in Manassas, I'll stick with the usual fare here in the valley. I live 3 miles from HQ of the Angus Assn of VA.; they do good work.

RF 1

[Ret10Echo]

Originally Posted by jw74

Hmmm... a museum dedicated to ruck marching chickens?

I'll pass.

Oh, but wait until DARPA gets ahold of that idea....