peta oj simpson house

peta oj simpson house

PETA wants O.J. Simpson's homeAnimal rights group PETA  is asking the bank that's foreclosing ex-NFL star O.J. Simpson's Miami home  to donate it to the group. PETA reportedly wants to turn the house into a vegetarian museum. PETA says it chose Simpson because he actively endorsed the consumption of meat

O.J. Simpson’s Kendall, Fla. home.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — PETA wants O.J. Simpson’s house.
Why?
To set up a “Meat Is Murder” museum, of course.
In a letter addressed to Jaime Dimon, JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals asked if the bank would either donate or sell the house to the animal rights group for a “nominal sum” once the bank completes the foreclosure it’s pursuing on Simpson’s home.
Ingrid Newkirk, PETA’s president, assured Dimon in the letter that if the organization is able to acquire the five-bedroom Kendall, Fla. home, it would put it to good use by turning it into a “Meat Is Murder” museum that would teach visitors that “nonviolence begins on our plates.”
A Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) spoksesman said the bank would not comment on the matter.
PETA said it chose Simpson’s home because the former football star actively endorsed the consumption of meat. Simpson, they said, was a spokesman for a chicken restaurant chain, owned two restaurants himself and held an ownership stake in several HoneyBaked Ham stores.
The organization said it was serious about its request.
O.J. Simpson faces foreclosure in Florida
“Hope springs eternal.” said Newkirk. “We said we wanted a building in Los Angeles a couple years ago and Bob Barker came up with $4 million to buy it.”
In addition to educating visitors about the treatment of animals used for meat, the museum would offer free samples of foods made from healthy, plant-based proteins, including veggie burgers and faux chicken.
“If they say yes, we’ll be working on the menu,” said Newkirk.
Simpson is currently serving a prison sentence of up to 33 years for a 2007 armed robbery and kidnapping in Nevada. According to a source familiar with the matter, he stopped making payments on his Florida home in 2010.

PETA is in the works of asking JPMorgan and Chase to hand over his pricey house to this animal rights organization for a new museum.

Why Simpson’s old digs, you ask? Simple. PETA would like to turn the five-bedroom home in Kendall, Fla., into a “Meat is Murder” museum. Simpson was infamously accused of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994. Now, PETA wants to allay any concerns about the unfortunate semantics here. The museum would supposedly teach visitors that “nonviolence begins on our plates.”

Non-violence begins on our plates? What is so difficult about PETA realizing where these plates come from? The Chinese slaves that we fund and work to death so that we can have so much time on our hands to be uppity assholes who ruin causes like animal rights for everyone else. PETA is making a public statement that Animals are more important that Jewish waiters.

Former football player O.J. Simpson is no stranger to trouble. Everyone is familiar with his infamous 1995 murder trial and acquittal, as well as his subsequent imprisonment for a 2007 robbery conviction. Now it seems that his Miami mansion is heading into foreclosure — not so strange, considering his incarceration — but here’s where things get interesting.

Animal-rights group PETA wants to buy the home and turn it into a vegetarian, “Meat is Murder” museum.

According to PETA president Ingrid Newkirk, ”Our museum will remind visitors that violence may not always be preventable but that it sometimes can be prevented and that non-violence begins on our plates. For instance, many wonderful flesh-and-blood individuals, who feel pain and fear as acutely as humans do and who value their lives in much the same way, are knifed to death every day for nothing more than a fleeting taste of flesh. In slaughterhouses, chickens and turkeys have their throats slit, and frightened pigs and cattle are hung up by one leg, skinned, and dismembered.”

So why is PETA singling out Simpson in particular? Well, it has to do with his troubled background, but not in the way you might think. Newkirk says that ”Simpson…was once a spokesperson for and a franchise owner of two chicken restaurants, and he held a 50 percent ownership in eight HoneyBaked Ham stores.”

Newkirk has asked JP Morgan Chase (the bank that owns the property) to donate the mansion to PETA, or at least consider selling it for a “nominal sum.”

Simpson purchased the 4-bed, 4-bath home for $575,000 in 2000. Let’s hope PETA can get a better deal than th