Will Lancashire KFC Become an Empathy Museum for Chickens?

Will Lancashire KFC Become an Empathy Museum for Chickens?

Lancashire – With a former KFC restaurant currently up for sale in Lancashire, PETA has sent a letter to Landwood Property Auctions asking whether the owner would consider allowing the group to borrow the property, or donate it for educational purposes, so it could be transformed into a Chicken Empathy Museum.

In the letter (available here), the animal protection group notes that the proposed attraction would transform a site once used to profit from dead chickens into one that inspires appreciation for living ones.”. Visitors would learn about chickens’ intelligence, emotional lives, and social bonds; meet PETA’s famous chicken mascot; see kill cones, shackles, and other equipment used to mutilate and kill birds; and enjoy delicious vegan food proving that no animal needs to die for a meal.

“Turning a former KFC into a Chicken Empathy Museum would give this site a new purpose, one that encourages visitors to see chickens as the clever, curious individuals they are,” says PETA Vice President of Vegan Projects Dawn Carr. “PETA would be delighted to help transform a place once linked to suffering into one that inspires compassion.”

In the meat industry, chickens are crammed into filthy, severely crowded sheds and bred to grow so unnaturally large so quickly that their legs can become crippled under their own bodyweight. At the abattoir, they are shackled upside down, their throats are slit, and many are scalded in defeathering tanks – sometimes while still conscious.

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – points out that when it comes to the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a chicken is a dog is a boy. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.

Contact:

Jennifer White +44 (0) 20 7837 6327; [email protected]

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