Should Macomb County Jail go vegan in exchange for a new freezer from PETA?
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is making an offer that it believes the Macomb County Jail can’t refuse. The animal-rights group will replace one of the jail’s old, moldy freezers if County Sheriff Mark Hackel agrees to serve prisoners a vegan diet for the next year. Macomb jail inmates have been surviving on bologna and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches after mold was found in the jail’s 50-year-old freezers in November. Sheriff’s department officials told the Associated Press that the freezers can’t be replaced right now because the county doesn’t have enough money. In a letter posted on PETA’s Web site, Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman offers to provide a new freezer to Macomb jail if it meets two conditions — serving vegan meals to prisoners for a year, and tracking their health during that time to see if it improves. The organization also offered to help the jail develop a new vegan menu. “Our proposal is a win-win-win situation: Inmates will get healthier, many
