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DAYTON — Though one billboard company has rejected a controversial idea from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the group is still trying to get another company to put it up.
PETA spokeswoman Ashley Gonzalez confirmed that the group was still working on erecting a billboard that compares the China Arnold murder case to the cooking of animals.
Arnold, 31, was convicted May 13 of the aggravated murder of her daughter, 28-day-old Paris Talley, who died in a microwave oven in 2005.
PETA’s announcement last week drew outrage from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which said the ad compared black people to animals.
The billboard is to feature two images: a mother pig nuzzling her piglet and a person about to place a pork chop in a microwave oven. The text reads “Everybody’s Somebody’s Baby. Go Vegan.”
On Friday, a jury declined to recommend the death penalty for Arnold. Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman sentenced her to life without parole.
Gonzalez said PETA saw the case as an opportunity to discuss animal rights, saying that most animals killed for human consumption are less than a year old.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2057 or lgrieco@coxohio.com.
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