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
Your lack of coop-eration will be reported to the pullet bureau.
I can’t believe I missed this again! I wasted the day painting my front porch.
I enjoy chicken, not likely to become vegan anytime soon.
That said, I’ve also seen what happens to surplus male chicks: they get shredded in a machine, using a process called “masceration fragmentation”. Apparently it is relatively humane. But what an ugly way to go, ay! Dropped into a shredder en-masse. The resultant “product” gets made into fertilizer. Yuck.
I’ve also seen how chickens are “handled” en-route to slaughter. It’s ugly, brutal and unpleasant.
I’d feel better about our “chicken” habit as a Society if there were a more humane way of indulging it. As matters currently stand, it forces me to be something of a living contradiction: a person who is humane and seeks to protect animals, and a shameless carnivore.
AND GOOGLE DID NOTHING!!!
PING!
Folks like you ruin things for the roost of us.
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Proverbs 12:10
I’m writing a letter ...
Dear Google,
You’re too chicken to honor the chickens.
bock bock,
Chicken Little
To those about to dine, I salute you.
It would be el pollo loco not to do so...
Bunch of chickens...
Sheesh! Try to do people a favor, and what do you get? Henpecking!
Time to make a reservation with Colonel Sanders.
At least you didn’t give me The Bird. ;^)
Thanks for the ping!
Why should I risk your outrageous fortune?
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