On January 27th a truck carrying live chickens overturned in Gainesville, Georgia. Thankfully, no humans were hurt in the crash. The chickens however weren’t so lucky. PETA wants to honor those dead chickens in a real peculiar way.
The Georgia Department of Transportation received a letter from the organization this week asking to build a monument in the dead chicken’s honor. Similar to those memorials you see at crash sites
“Although a relative of the deceased is usually required to fulfill requests for roadside memorials, I hope you will allow a concerned citizen such as me to suffice in this case,” Sarah Segal of Atlanta wrote in her application to GDOT. “These chickens, who spent their entire short lives … on a factory farm before their agonizing deaths, have no known living relatives.”
Segal said in a letter to GDOT that she was “writing as a Georgia resident to ask that you permit me to place a 10-foot tombstone memorial for one month on the right-of-way of U.S. 129 to commemorate the lives lost in this deadly crash.”
“We hope the tombstone will offer food for thought in the ‘Poultry Capital of the World’,” said PETA spokeswoman Shakira Croce.
A tombstone..for chickens. Just when you think you’ve seen everything, just when you think PETA couldn’t get any more ridiculous—they go out there AND TOTALLY REDEEM THEMSELVES!