Don’t you hate it when you design a giant chicken and then can’t put it to good use?
Burlington artist/cartoonist Harry Bliss, better known for his work in the New Yorker, numerous children’s books and, we hope, in Seven Days, designed a chicken for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The fully realized, 3-D fowl was ostensibly to be used for protests against, say, Kentucky Fried Chicken.
In Salem, Ore., PETA hoped to use its “crippled chicken” as a roadside memorial for hundreds of actual chickens that sadly perished earlier this month when a delivery truck carrying 5400 of them crashed. The driver was speeding and caused the truck to overturn, according to Oregon’s KATU.com, which added:
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.
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