PETA has asked the Department of Transportation in Illinois to commemorate the spot where 16 cows lost their life on May 22 in a traffic accident says a report in the Chicago Tribune.
The cows plunged from the back of a tractor trailer when it jackknifed on a bridge on an I-80 highway overpass.
I’m wondering if we could just have a memorial BBQ. I’ll bring the grill.
Now, before you start laughing remember: This is Illinois.
Yes, that state.
You know how people warn you about avoiding stupid mistakes by saying, “You don’t want to be that guy.”
Well, ladies and gentleman I present you your Daley-Obama-Rahm Emmanuel-led State of Illinois. That state.
It’s a state where graft makes everything “work,” and where 3 out 4 governors go to prison, because someone has to take the rap for all that graft. You have to keep up appearances that you are interested in good government. And there is nothing like sending both Republican and Democrat governors to jail to make the message clear.
You don’t want to be that guy? Then, don’t become governor of Illinois.
In other states the position of governor is one of honor. In Illinois governors are elected patsies so the graft machine can keep going.
The PETA proposal memorializing the Cow-Victims-of-5/22 asks Illinois to glorify the animals that died while performing their function “in the meat trade.”
The “meat trade” is what you and I call groceries.
"These proposed signs would also remind tractor-trailer drivers of their responsibility to the thousands of animals they haul to their deaths every day," said Tracy Patton, 26, a campaigner for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals according to UPI. "It's a big enough tragedy that these animals end up in slaughterhouses, where they are kicked, shocked with electric prods and finally dragged off the trucks to their deaths. Sparing them from being tossed from a speeding truck and deprived of care afterward, sometimes for several hours, seems the least that we can do."
So they want drivers to act more responsibly while driving animals to their deaths? Maybe keeping truck drivers’ eyes on the road and not on some signs would be a good start.