People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal suggesting he stop looking for another chicken company to buy Pilgrim's Pride's closing Farmerville processing plant and use the state funds he had offered a potential buyer instead to help PETA buy the plant and turn it into American's first chicken empathy museum.

Hoping to save some of the 1,300 jobs the plant closing will cause, Jindal has offered $40 million in state funds for a $60 billion joint bid with Foster Farms to buy the plant. 

PETA suggested a chicken empathy museum could include educational displays that highlight interesting facts about chickens, "including that chickens are intelligent animals with mental abilities comparable to cats, dogs, and even primates and that in nature, mother hens cluck to their unborn chicks, who chirp back from inside their shells."

It also suggested a restaurant serving faux-chicken nuggets and a gift shop with free plush chickens for kids, with tags reading, "I Am Not a Nugget!"

A Pilgrim's Pride spokesman declined to comment on the letter.

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