PETA Sends Letter to Warden, Says a Vegan Diet Will Cure Female Hannibal Lecter's 'Bloodlust'
Omaima Aree Nelson. California Department of Corrections.
PETA fired off a letter to Warden Lydia Hense of Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla on Tuesday requesting that a flesh-free, vegan diet be made a permanent requirement of Nelson's parole, should it be granted, and that she be served a vegan diet for the remainder of her sentence. Nelson is asking for early release from her 27-year sentence for the 1991 murder.
PETA believes that "a vegan diet will help ensure that Nelson is no longer contributing to any needless violence and bloodlust," as stated in a release. Nelson's bloodlust seems insatiable, as during her imprisonment she bit a security guard's breast. Gruesome details of the 1991 murder have been resurfacing leading up to today's parole hearing. Senior Deputy Dist. Atty. Randolph J. Pawloski, the veteran prosecutor who sent her to prison and who will be present at today's hearing, will never forget the horror of visiting the Nelson's home.
“There were suitcases and plastic bags soaked with dark liquid from his body parts. In the fry cooker there sat Mr. Nelson’s hands and when we opened the refrigerator there was Mr. Nelson’s head with stab wounds,” Palowski recalls. “She had his entrails in his Corvette and she was trying to get an ex-boyfriend to yank out the dentures from the head so she could dump it in the Back Bay.”
Nelson wore red shoes, a red hat and red lipstick while spending hours chopping up her husband's body, and, as testified by a psychiatrist during the trial, is quoted as telling the doctor, "I did his ribs just like in a restaurant."
Below is PETA's letter to the warden.
Dear Ms. Hense:I'm writing on behalf of PETA's more than 2 million members and supporters worldwide with a suggestion for ensuring that convicted killer and cannibal Omaima Aree Nelson doesn't chop up and eat any more victims if she is released from prison: Require her to follow a nonviolent, bloodless, vegan diet as a condition of her parole.
Animals on factory farms never get a chance at parole because they always get the death penalty. They spend their lives imprisoned in tiny cages, severely crowded sheds, or filthy feed lots. Their deaths are especially heinous and gruesome: They are shackled upside down, their throats are cut, and they are often scalded or dismembered alive. The last thing that a convicted killer and cannibal should be allowed to do is chew on these innocent victims' body parts.
Eating humane and healthy vegan food will undoubtedly help Nelson lose her taste for blood. Prisons in Thailand, India, and the U.S. have had success by using vegetarian meals as part of violence-reduction programs. If Nelson isn't granted parole, I hope that you will consider serving her exclusively vegan meals in prison. Doing so would also improve her health, which would save taxpayers' money by decreasing her health-care costs. Vegetarians have a lower risk of heart disease, obesity, cancer, and diabetes than meat-eaters do. Vegetarian meals are also cost-efficient and easy to prepare.
I hope you will agree that going vegan is the best way for Nelson to part with her violent past. To help, PETA would be happy to send her our vegetarian/vegan starter kit, which is full of flesh-free recipes and helpful tips for making the transition to a nonviolent diet. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Carrie Snider
Special Projects Coordinator
"Animals who are killed for their flesh experience pain and fear just as humans do," says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. "If people are revolted by the idea of eating a human corpse, perhaps they should also lose their appetites at the thought of eating anyone's skinned and sautéed body parts."
