Such cheapskate pikery sticks in my craw!
I took three eggs to breakfast; and took one chicken to lunch, and another to dinner.
Our lab worked hard to GM-produce these featherless giants.
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
Not me. I'm gonna take a tree to lunch on arbor day.
Ya don't have to do any traveling and trees eat less than chickens.
Just call me cheep, I reckon.
Such cheapskate pikery sticks in my craw!
I took three eggs to breakfast; and took one chicken to lunch, and another to dinner.
'Tis a far, far better thing, to be a carniphage, than a carniologist.
When was the last time anyone saw a calender in a chicken coop? Chickens don’t know what day it is. Liberals are nuts.
Disclaimer: I’m sorry for using the term “nuts.” If I stole it from anyone, I apologize. I do have a brain and frequently do my own thinking but “nuts” is a term I’ve used all my life. I did not steal it from Rush Limbaugh.
Aw, c’mon, ‘Stix, beak a good sport, wood n’t you chip in with us?
What would Old Hickory do?
Smoke, smoke, smoke that chickenette!
Smoke, smoke, smoke that chickenette
Stuff, stuff, stuff and if you eat yourself to death
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta scarf another chickenette!
The other night I had a date
With the cutest little gal in the United States
A low-browed, out of town, red-necked dame
She loved me and it seemed to me
That things were ‘bout like they oughta be
So hand in hand we strolled Barbecue Lane
She was oh so far from a cake of ice
And our smoochin’ party was goin’ nice
So help me cats I believe I’d be there yet
But I give her a kiss and a little squeeze
And she said, “ah, Gatey, excuse me please
I just gotta have me another, chickenette”
And she said, smoke, smoke, smoke that chickenette
Stuff, stuff, stuff and if you eat yourself to death
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta scarf another chickenette
I see you have us in the right pecking order. ;)
My hens are pumpin’ out 24-28 eggs a DAY this time of year. Cha-Ching! :)
I didn’t have time to party, though it was a worthy cause...I took a new job that ties up 60-70 hours of each week...but only through the end of May. I’m the Perennial Manager at a local Garden Center...we make ALL (and I mean ALL) of our money in the four WARM months of the year up here.)
It’s insane! I could work 24/7 and still not keep up. *SIGH*
Anyhow, I did give “The Girlz” extra rations today to celebrate. I started free-ranging them about a month ago and it’s worked wonders. They’re very happy, and so am I...but they do tend to follow the dogs and I when we go on our walk in the early morning, so it’s quite the parade, LOL!
They’ve imprinted on the three of us because they’ve known us all since they were chicks; to them, we mean FOOD!
Chickens are very basic...and really not that smart, LOL!
Yes, the greenhouse company.
I remember you got the dream job. I would enjoy working there too.
I meant the ping as a jump on the sarcasm bandwagon.
This is a animal rights movement, not an animal welfare one.
:)
LOL!
There ought to be International Respect for Ptarmigans Day. Ptarmigans were massacred by rabbits in the Great Ptarmigan/Lagomorph War. Rabbits subjugated ptarmigans by enslavement and genocide.
Chickens are beautiful birds. Also, they are related to Arctic ptarmigans.
ROTFLOL!
GREAT thread, and thank you for the ping!
I’m not very punny.
Wattle I do???
;o)
You know how much I hate puns.
[rimshot!]
http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mba/lowres/mban467l.jpg
http://www.cgmarshall.com/images/Photos/Rubber_Chicken.JPG
VERY clever parody and the tune is in my head 12 hours later!
“A gadget that no one needs but everyone wants to have”, the ChickensSuit® website promises no more and no less than a “piece of freedom”. the entire world should take part and enjoy this product from a Japanese-Austrian joint venture.
A few chicken outfits ...
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