PETA, KFC, & Kelo

It turns out that KFC was looking for a new warehouse here, and PETA is the owner -

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has made a juicy offer to the owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

But Yum Brands Inc., parent company of KFC and Taco Bell, isn't biting.

PETA, which has targeted KFC with one of its vitriolic animal-rights campaigns, saw an unexpected opportunity this month upon learning that Yum wanted to buy its property at 20th Street and Monticello Avenue.

PETA offered to turn over the vacant warehouse, owned by its related Foundation to Support Animal Protection, for free. In exchange, the activist group wanted KFC to implement several improvements to address what PETA calls abusive practices the chain's suppliers use to raise and slaughter 850 million chickens a year.

"I guess it was a karmically good twist of fate," said Matt Prescott, PETA's manager of Factory Farming Campaigns.

Given the recent Kelo decision from the Supreme Court, I think it would be much more a "karmically good twist of fate" if KFC went to the city and explained that their ownership would be much more profitable to the city than having PETA own it, and let the City of Norfolk condem it for them.