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A Chicken Empathy Museum

Certain chicken breeds, like Merlin the Buff Orpington pictured here, make perfect backyard pets and can be egg-laying machines. Every other day Merlin leaves a brown double-yolk egg in the nesting box. (Cheryl-Anne Millsap / Down To Earth NW)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
Certain chicken breeds, like Merlin the Buff Orpington pictured here, make perfect backyard pets and can be egg-laying machines. Every other day Merlin leaves a brown double-yolk egg in the nesting box. (Cheryl-Anne Millsap / Down To Earth NW)
Certain chicken breeds, like Merlin the Buff Orpington pictured here, make perfect backyard pets and can be egg-laying machines. Every other day Merlin leaves a brown double-yolk egg in the nesting box. (Cheryl-Anne Millsap / Down To Earth NW)

“This morning, PETA sent a letter to Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine offering to rent the Botetourt Correctional Center building, which is slated to close because of budget concerns, and turn it into America’s first chicken empathy museum.” http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=13544

I’m all for it. But hasn’t Colonel Sanders already done something like this? I know I bow my head for a moment of private reflection before I dig into a red and white bucket of juicy fried goodness.

H/T Aliasjax

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog