A chicken's fondest wish ... fame 'n fortune.
Posted on 05/04/2007 2:20:34 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
Friday is International Respect for Chickens Day Every so often a press release comes scratching at the door and just CROWS for your attention.
Why did this press release cross the road? To stick up for chickens! MACHIPONGO, Va., May 1, PRNewswire — United Poultry Concerns is pleased to announce our Third Annual International Respect for Chickens Day, May 4. We urge everyone to do an ACTION of compassion for chickens that day — from writing a letter to the editor to tabling at a local mall to showing the movie Chicken Run to going vegan — for life.
What are people doing for chickens on International Respect for Chickens Day?
“I'm planning to leaflet at an outdoor concert.” (Laura Mungavin, Atlanta, Ga.)
“I'm doing a display at my work place.” (Michele Walsh, Saxonburg, Pa.)
“I printed fact sheets off your Web site and am assembling them into packets to distribute at my office.” (Chalon Carroll Young, Esq., Kissimmee, Fla.)
“We're leafleting in front of the White House and in Takoma Park, Md., around Roscoe the Rooster's Memorial Statue.” (Karen Davis, President of United Poultry Concerns, Machipongo, Va.)
International Respect for Chickens Day is a day to celebrate the dignity, beauty, and life of chickens and to protest against the bleakness of their lives in farming operations.
“For a chicken trapped in the world of modern food manufacture, to break out of the shell is to enter a deeper darkness full of bewildering pain and suffering from birth to death,” says Karen Davis, president of United Poultry Concerns. “We want to restore chickens to their leafy green world.”
Information about International Respect for Chickens Day is on the Web at http://www.upc-online.org
I like it, Brother.
A chicken's fondest wish ... fame 'n fortune.
It has been a while since somebody pinged the whole flock. Perhaps we may have been a bit peckish toward some of our members, but some of us have to rule the roost. Perhaps we could be a little less cocky at times, but I'd hate for things to get to the point where we're walking on egg shells worried about what we say.
Brother, you’ll fry for that.
Or be roosted or something.
I’m out of Shake’N’Bake.
You seem to be feeling pretty cocksure, but I don't think your posts are anything to crow about.
I didn’t know we’d run a-fowl of some folks....I’ll try to limit that in the future by putting a capon my temper....
ROFLOL! You made me remember my unoffical FR Funners & Punners ping list.
PING!
If anyone wants either on or off of this list, you must be out of your minds....
I don't think it was your temper that turned them off...just your constant hen-pecking.
Don’t see my name at the top. Looks like I’m low in the pecking order.
..maybe if we all put our thinking capons..
Never take your chicken on a Fryday. Your just asking for trouble.
That sound you hear is the world’s smallest fiddle playing
“Turkey in the Straw”
Keep egging me on like that and I’ll drop you from the list entirely.
I’m not yolking.
Meanwhile, I see a couple of others trying to scratch out a chuckle so I’ll put them in the kettle, I mean list. At the bottom of the totem polar bear, I mean pecking order....
I wasn’t barn yesterday, I know it’s not considered chic to make puns, so you won’t here another peep out of me.
eesh, here=hear. Don’t want to duck the issue, but I knew somebody would jump on me if they got a gander at that.
Here’s what the FDA is doing for chickens:
WASHINGTON - Federal officials on Friday placed a hold on 20 million chickens raised for market in several states because their feed was mixed with pet food containing an industrial chemical
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070505/ap_on_he_me/pet_food_recall
BBQ
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