PETA upset with a road name that could scare literate chickens

The brain trusts at the Psychotics for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), a wild and crazy animal rights group, are upset over the naming of a rural road in Idaho's Treasure Valley. They say it's not very kind to chickens, especially literate ones.

Seriously, everyone needs to have a cause, something to stand by and fight for and protest over. It doesn't matter the cause, as long as it makes those fighting for it feel both relevant and morally superior to normal people who just enjoy chicken for dinner, or chicken eggs for breakfast, hopefully with a nice big side of bacon, or as PETA would like us to call it: swine.

The organization sent out a news release Wednesday putting Idaho residents on notice that it has written a letter to Caldwell Mayor Garret Nancolas. PETA is very upset with a local street name in their township and it is not only offensive to vegans, Hindus and hippies, it's offensive to the few chickens they believe know how to read.

The name of the road in question is Chicken Dinner Road. However, Caldwell city street maps don’t include Chicken Dinner Road, which is located in rural Canyon County, but they're aiming to fix that right soon, ya betcha.

One of the few literate chickens in captivity

“Just like dogs, cats, and human beings, chickens feel pain and fear and value their own lives,” said PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman in the letter, indicating her fear that if literate chickens read the road sign, they will be afraid, very afraid, and a scared chicken is helpless to fight back.

Reiman wants the mayor to change the name of the road to “one that celebrates chickens as individuals, not as beings to kill, chop up, and label as ‘dinner.’ ” She is a crazy as a loon, which are also birds, but not usually served as food.

In the letter, dated July 3, Reiman said she’s not trying to “ruffle any feathers,”  [LOL] adding that words matter and “have the power to change lives.”



How did Chicken Dinner Road  get that name?

The Idaho Press reported in 2016 the story of a woman named Laura Lamb [perhaps PETA would have wanted her to change her surname out of respect for lambs, but thankfully, they weren't around at the time] who, back in the 1930s, wanted the road--that was called at the time Lane 12--to be fixed.

She was friends with then-Gov. C. Ben Ross then Gov. C. Ben Ross, and she invited him and his wife to her farm for her famous chicken, apple pie and hot roll dinner,” to convince him that the road needed to be fixed, the article states.

The dinner worked, and Ross worked out a plan with Laura Lamb. If she could work with the Board of Canyon County Commissioners to get the road graded and graveled, the governor would see to providing the oil needed to fix the road.

Now there's more to the story but suffice it to say that the road's name is intimately tied into Idaho lore. The people at PETA need to get a life and just stop!


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