Statueless

The clown act known as PETA has been denied again:

The City of Salem and the Oregon Department of Transportation have denied People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' request for permission to build a large chicken statue at the site of a truck crash that killed hundreds of chickens earlier this month.

The statue “would serve as a reminder not only to livestock haulers to take extra precautions with their live cargo but also to city residents that chickens are among the most abused animals on the planet and the best way to try to prevent crashes like this is to go vegan so that chickens don't have to make the trip to the slaughterhouse in the first place,” PETA spokeswoman Shakira Croce said in a news release.

It's been said that the only thing good about chickens is the way they taste when they're fried. I'm beginning to wonder what PETA activists would taste like when fried, since they apparently have no more redeeming qualities than do chickens.