PETA Seeks Memorials to Cows Killed on Illinois Roads
- Posted on December 30, 2011 at 6:22pm by
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CHICAGO (AP) — An animal rights group wants Illinois to install highway signs in memory of cattle killed when trucks hauling them flipped in two separate wrecks.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has asked for permission to buy the markers, one in suburban Chicago and one northwest of Peoria. The group says the signs would pay tribute to the more than 20 cattle killed as a result of negligent driving this year.
Illinois Department of Transportation spokesman Josh Kauffman says the request will likely be denied because the state’s Roadside Memorial Act specifies that only relatives who lost loved ones in highway crashes may request memorials.
In 2006, Virginia rejected PETA’s request for highway markers to memorialize hogs killed in crashes on their way to slaughter at Smithfield Foods.
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Comments (129)
watashbuddyfriend
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:52amPETA. you left out the skunk, rabbit, snake, dog, horse …!
Report Post »QuietBeige
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 9:16pmAnd cats! It is cool that they left out some of the lower forms of life though. For instance PETA members are not specifically spelled out and Whory Wood starts like Matt Damon seems to be fair game also…
Report Post »watashbuddyfriend
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:51amNut jobs are what is causing your Freedom to disappear!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:59amI know so many young people struggling to make it in this world because of the educational system & the economic situation & and all PETA can do is worry about animals.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:04amI’ll say the eulogy. Those cows were wonderful creatures, but they gave up their first protocol, to make people happy with their milk, and roasts and beef for burgers. Instead they offered themselves as road kill, because they were too stupid to sacrifice themselves for the well being of mankind.
May those foolish cows be one with the belly of the vultures, and their bones ground into feed for other animals to feast on.
And all the people said?
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:38amDear PETA, I lament not having found the absolute proper eulogy for the poor cows. Please accept the following link in the spirit it is offered!
http://www.logan.ws/games/bloody-penguin.asp
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:09amRIP Bessie
Report Post »There once was a milk cow named Bessie
A Gurnsey she was very dressy
While crossing the road
She was hit by a wide load
The steak’s were great , but the scene very messy.
ZengaPA65
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:57amThe best memorial to a dead cow is a McDonalds.
Report Post »richard the lion-hearted
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:19amOh how I long for the day when I see the memorial to PETA, marking the day that they were dismantled by people with a grip on their emotions and priorities…
Report Post »certified ethical hacker
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:16pmAfter they get that they will ask for one for possums and coons (four legged kind) you could start a business selling plaques and animal skin hats for the memorials.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 2:07pmMmmm… an Ode to Hamberger: Yummy in my Tummy…
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 6:43pm… there will be another civil war in America, but it will not be about slavery. It will be about clashing ideologies. The Liberal mind is becoming out of control, and the only way to deal with it will be to kill it . And when we do we can post a small sign stating that a liberal marxist died on this spot, that way the cows can pay their respects when they walk past …
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 6:49pmI think the memorials are a teriffic idea. PETA can buy a small plot of land at each site and pay for the memorials. Illinois is a union shop state so they should be able to get each memorial put up for less that $100,000. I’m sure their members would be more than willing to support this noble cause.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:36pm… cows .. GET IN MEH BELLY!
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 12:58pmI can see it now…a twenty foot tall rotating hamburger….awesome.
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 1:20pmif PETA pays who cares…. If I have to pay, f off peta
Report Post »Gorp
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 2:39pm@LUKERW:
Kind of a take off of that “Ohio Express” song: Yummy Yummy Yummy I’ve got Beef in my Tummy.
Report Post »arfarb55
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:49amHey PETA, what about the following; TWO ABORTION DOCS CHARGED WITH MURDER AFTER 35 LATE-TERM BABIES FOUND IN FREEZER…Take up a cause EVERYONE should care about! Pray for COMMON SENSE… God bless us all…
Report Post »lgccac
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:48amA BBQ grill would be a fitting memorial, I think.
Report Post »louise
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:02amlol
Report Post »jackbauer
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 5:01pmA grill would be a fitting altar, to offer up a burnt sacrifice to the “Cow god of PETA” on Memorial Day, no less!
Report Post »rukdnme13
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:34amSorry, collectivist, also forgot deer!
Report Post »rukdnme13
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:30amWhat is wrong with this country? The vocal minorities manipulate the rules to suit themselves and their colectivist agenda. They do not speak for me!!!!! What’s next, memorials for squirrel,skunk, and possum roadkill? R U KDN ME?
Report Post »piper60
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:39amThis is just the thing that Obama-san wants. All us peons paying attention to this fringe group while big brother foisting terrorism in the form of “laws” on us.
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:44amI think some golden arches would make a nice memorial,BTW as far as having to be a relative, some of those peta women are rather mootiful,don’t you think? Moo-hoo
Report Post »josetoyou
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:26amMost rational people regard members of PETA as “nut jobs”!!!!
Report Post »obfuscatenot
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 7:36amI know of a place where the very same good ole Illinois animal rights folks CAUSED the death of of couple thousand hogs in hot trailers waiting to be unloaded because they were being slaughtered!?!? The methods were inhumane….uhhh, baking alive in the hot summer sun on a trailer is more pleasant? NEWSFLASH….Yes, animals DO die when there is an accident on the highway. Congrats PETA….the cows were probably eatable, but the pigs on those hot trailers, not so much. These poor folks are just a little confused as to how important life is…..perhaps it’s caused by the lack of protein to their bodies.
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:32amBet these loons are pro choice what a bunch of AHs
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 7:18amHey Peta..why not go after Meeshee…she had a really nice snake skin purse she was using as she chow down on cow meat on vacation this week!
Save a few cows, reptiles and pigs that jokers in the Whitehouse are eating and wearing! Oh yea they don’t count cause their your socialists friend…“Do what I say not what I do” !
Get lost and go save a few aborted children instead!
Report Post »Moozmom
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 6:59amPETA obviously has a warm heart; how about it PETA places memorials on the highway close to each town? These memorials would list the names of the clinics and doctors and nurses in that town providing abortions. PETA could also have recorded on the memorials the number of children killed each year by the abortionists.
Report Post »Until PETA does the above, they are not warm hearted or caring in the least.
The10thAmendment
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:21amI agree with almost all of your post. The part I disagree with is, “providing abortion”.
In common language that’s known as murder in the 1st degree.
Report Post »texasoysterman
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 6:27amI would like to ask for a moment of silence in remembrance for the cattle so needlessly killed in the two truck crashes in Illinois……………………………………………………………………………………..buurp…….oops, pardon me.
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:34amCan I get fries with that?
Report Post »corsair18
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 3:23amThey want WHAT???? ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 4:55amThey ought to have Mel Brooks read the dedication.
Report Post »Thomas
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 5:12amWhy are the people of Peta and other animals activist so heartless as to not care about the poor innocent plants that are killed just to support their lives? They are just heartless hypocrites.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 7:03amBIZARRE ! !
What I want to know, is, what do they have against butterflies, June-bugs, mosquitoes, deer, skunks, squirrels, etc.? Why is the life of a cow any more precious to them than a mosquito? A skunk?
A critter is a critter. Period.
Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
Sure, we are to be good stewards, but, come ON ! This is ri-DONK-u-LOUS !
They should lose their non-profit status for such nonsense. If I were a donor, I’d be REALLY MIFFED!
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:36amI thought it was India where cows are sacred? Not here in Mc America ! MOOOOO!
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 2:09amBut, but, but…What about the shrimp that NSF made run on the treadmill? It’s still an animal all the same, right?
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 3:00amGreat idea, I have a suggestion, make it look like a BIG A-1 bottle. Yum!
Report Post »1389AD
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 4:50amDing Ding Ding! You just won tonight’s jackpot for pure comedy gold!
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:51amPETA was required to spend money for “the cause” in 1997 so they spent 750k on live main lobster in New York and took them back to Maine and set them free. Do the math.
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:25amI’d say a BBQ grill is the most befitting memorial to dead cattle.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:29amI’ll bring the fuel and briquettes, if you teach me how to make a good Texas BBQ sauce.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:10amI’ll be all for this when Roe is reversed and liberals hold a year-long candlelight vigil for the murders of millions of unborn children.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:20amC’mon, encinom–come here and tell us all how those babies are NOT children! Screw your fave argument about ‘the law’. It was once illegal for me to be sleeping with my girlfriend (hint, you do uche–she isn’t white like me). So, tell us all about your Majestic Liberal Holier-than-thou LAW! Come tell us again they aren’t babies.
But I bet a do uche like YOU and your re tard liberal friends think roadkill is more valuable than babies.
Pffft!
Report Post »Gumbercules
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:07amSo it appears that people are petitioning for this (PETA); what are the animals’ thoughts on this? Any word from AETA (Animals for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)? I’m on bored if they are.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 12:57amI Thought They Had Memorials.Are there not McDonald’s on about ever street corner?
Report Post »Caballosinnombre
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 12:43amThe news is getting weirder and weirder.
Report Post »Larry
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 11:56pmI think a memorial would be a great idea. It would go something like this: At this location, On 28 September, Delicious, juicy hamburgers and Steaks came to market. Lovingly tenderized by America’s best selling pickup, the Ford F-150.
the preceding was a paid advertisement from Ford Motors, Inc. and Outback Steakhouse.
Report Post »ICANHANDLETHETRUTH
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:02amLMAO that was a good one, I think they should also put signs up in honor of all the bugs that have been wasted on the wind sheild of my truck !!!!! LOL Just when you think you have heard it al…………. BOOOOM this peta story pops up !!!!!!!!! LOL
Report Post »richard the lion-hearted
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 12:46amVery good, very funny! Government Motors would probably settle out of court for vehicular homicide…
Report Post »Arc
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 11:36pmDear PETA,
Report Post »There are doctors killing babies every day
Approximately 15 million children go to sleep hungry in the United States
There are dictators in foreign lands murdering the citizens.
There are worldwide slavery organizations kidnapping and humiliating children women and men.
There are other people in the world who have but one goal, to kill Americans and are succeeding
Is it possible your priorities are out of order?
SoCaLCapitalist
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 11:52pmSarcasm-
You have to understand many PETA members lost their parents and calves when that cattle died.
Report Post »TruthIsGod
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:33amPETA could care less about animals. They are just another group of extremely sick people that are proud to call themselves; liberals, *******, rapists, child molesters, commies, traitors, god haters, etc.
Report Post »Icnivad
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:47pmLater… “PETA Seeks Memorials To Insects Killed On Illinois Window Sills.”
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:00amA good day for a PETA member is them saving an ant & ignoring a person bleeding out on the sidewalk next to them
Report Post »Dosrios
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:42amWhat‘s the last thing that goes through a bug’s mind when it hits your windshield ?
His a**hole !
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:47pm…and what about all the dead squirrels and opossums? Where are all their markers? It’s discriminatory!
Report Post »SoCaLCapitalist
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 11:54pmNow that’s funny- where’s the ACLU to sue PETA when you need them??
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 4:33amSend themdown to Texas, they canput memorialsto all the dead racoons, opossums ans armadillos.
Down here we call them Texas sped vbumps.
OMG
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:44pmCan you imagine a memorial for that?
“Pigs being taken to SLAUGHTER died before they got there. Doh! …and it happened right here.”
*arrow points to the spot*
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:41pmThose dead cows must have provided some awesome steaks to deserve a memorial.
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