Bid to turn ex-KFC into 'Chicken Empathy Museum'

A attempt to turn a former KFC into the world's first "Chicken Empathy Museum" is being made by animal rights campaigners.

Campaign group PETA has written to Landwood Property Auctions enquiring about a former KGC in Fleetwood, Lancashire asking if it could "borrow" the property or it could be "donated for educational purposes".

The letter from Dawn Carr, the group's Vegan Project Vice President states: "Visitors could learn about chickens' intelligence and emotional lives... and enjoy delicious vegan food proving that nobody needs to kill animals for a meal."

The auction company has been contacted to comment.

Exhibits would include interactive displays about chickens' sophisticated communication skills, problem-solving abilities and family bonds, alongside displays of slaughterhouse equipment.

Carr said: "Most people know chickens only as 'nuggets', 'wings', or 'fillets', yet these remarkable birds are intelligent, inquisitive individuals with their own unique personalities.

"They can recognise dozens of other chickens, communicate through a sophisticated range of vocalisations and evenperform basic arithmetic.

"Mother hens talk to their chicks before they hatch and the chicks begin communicating back from inside the egg."

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