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 hate it when they do this to me. I don’t much like chicken and now it’s chicken for supper. Couldn’t it have been repect a pig day?
My thinking is it is a holiday having more merit than Code Pink’s National Impeachment Day.
Alot of clucks for just a couple of bucks!
Anyone have some recipes for fried or grilled chicken?
It’s been a while; think we can pullet off? My participation in FreePun lately has been nothing to crow about.
PERFECT!!!!!
Chickens merit a lot of respect for how efficiently they convert grain into tasty protein.
In England, they’d say this is a big cock up...
Someone had to post it. If you hadn’t, I would’ve. :^)
Good old Mike the headless chicken. He has his own web site.
When is “Take Your Chicken to Work Day”?
I can never remember.
I will have one over for dinner.
Ha! I was thinking about how to phrase a similar comment (e.g., I 'respect' the Colonel's bucket of 12 finger lickin' pieces of chicken), but you beat me to it (and did it better).
Oh, no! I’m munching down on some Chicken Express right now. Thanks to the chickens who made this possible. I really do respect them for it.
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...
;^)
I had to comb through a lot of posts to see this one, hr. Wattle we do for an encore?
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