Friday is International Respect for Chickens Day

Contra Costa Times ^ | May 01, 2007 | Gary Bogue

[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

[Daffynition]

Crying fowl! Surely everyone remembers "Chicken Girl"?

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Those DIAPERS are on BACKWARDS! ;^)

[aruanan]

“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.”

For Karen, to have left the womb was to enter a deeper darkness of irrational psuedo-thought, inordinate emotionalism, and lack of touch with reality.

[Daffynition]

"...when we go on our walk in the early morning, so it’s quite the parade..."

[Daffynition]

EGGSTRA funny!!! Good thing the fashion industry isn't relying on you to make a gazillion this year!

It's a lifestyle man ...a LIFESTYLE!

[Slings and Arrows]

A few chicken outfits ...

"Sold!"

[Lady Jag]

Cute!

[NRA2BFree]

Sometimes mystery meat is called “Pullet Surprise,” but better known as The Pulitzer Prize.

If we combined today with yesterday, we’d have National Day of Wing and a Prayer...

LOL! Hilarious! ;o)

[MoochPooch]

This brings back memories of ROWAN & MARTIN’S LAUGH-IN, when Jo-Anne Worley kept complaining about chickens.

Boy, I feel old.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Oh, Thank You! New desktop wallpaper, LOL! :)

[potlatch]

Thanks for the ping Lyman. I’m running a day late around here!!

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

But not running around like a chicken with your head cut off, I hope....

[potlatch]

But not running around like a chicken with your head cut off, I hope....

With the whole body cut off!!!

[devolve]

LOL!

That looks painful!

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

If your nose runs and your feet smell,

you’re built upside down.

[potlatch]

LOLOL. Too late to make them running right so I just flipped one vertically. Two feet running, in an odd way.

[potlatch]

Lol, I’m built right side up - or somesuch!!

[devolve]

How about “The One-Legged Chicken”

A takeoff on “The Fugitive”....

[Trteamer]

[potlatch]

The one 'footed' chicken is what I had in the first place!!