Isn't it enough that I love them?
Posted on 04/28/2005 7:37:48 AM PDT by dukeman
Attention Washington DC Area Residents & Others
Join UPC at the University of Maryland May 4 and Takoma Park May 8
On International Respect for Chickens Day, UPC will leaflet on behalf of chickens in front of McKeldon Library at the University of Maryland, College Park on Wednesday, May 4 from Noon – 2 PM. Brochures and posters will be provided along with our banner proclaiming INTERNATIONAL RESPECT FOR CHICKENS DAY - A DAY TO CELEBRATE CHICKENS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Please join us in front of the library!
On Sunday, May 8, we will leaflet in the Takoma Park Town Square in the vicinity of the Roscoe the Rooster Memorial Statue and the 7th-Day Adventist Church from Noon – 2 PM. As everyone knows, the Roscoe statue honors a rooster who for years was tenderly cared for by Takoma Park residents until his death in 1999. In 2000, UPC president Karen Davis sat on the committee that selected the artist and helped to raise funds to erect the statue through our generous membership. Sadly, while Takoma Park honors Roscoe as the town mascot who "made us smile and brightened our days," this community, which has traditionally embraced peace-loving, anti-war, vegetarian values, is retreating to a mainstream consumer identity and dolling up the downslide as wanting to be "part of the revolution for lovingly and humanely raised and culled meat" (Washington Post 3/20/05). ROSCOE NEEDS OUR HELP. PLEASE JOIN US AT THE TOWN SQUARE ON MOTHERS DAY, SUNDAY MAY 8 FROM NOON – 2 PM. Next to the endearing Roscoe statue there will be a farmers market plying the flesh of dead chickens and other innocent victims of human violence. We’ll have brochures, posters, and our banner. We look forward to standing out as the true friends of Roscoe. For more information, call 757-678-7875 or email karen@upc-online.org.
Here's more....
One Lucky Turkey Enjoys Vegan Feast
One lucky turkey will ham it up at vegan feast,” by Linda McNatt, appeared on the front page of The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 2004. Here is the charming article, edited slightly for space:
“Florence the turkey has thrived since she came to live at Karen Davis’ bird sanctuary on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. She’ll be an honored guest at Davis’ annual vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday.
“MACHIPONGO - Sssshhhhhh. Don’t mention the T word around Florence today. It might upset the plump, white turkey. Here, at her home in this tiny, rural town on the Eastern Shore, Thanksgiving is just another day at the bird sanctuary. . . . In fact, she will be an honored guest at a vegetarian dinner at the sanctuary that is also home to several ducks and more than 100 chickens. Florence is the lone turkey.
“‘Oh, we’ll let her come in the house and set bowls of food and water on the floor for her,’ said Karen Davis, president of United Poultry Concerns and an avid animal activist. ‘That way, people can get to know her.’
“Davis, a former English professor at the University of Maryland, believes that everyone should get to know their feathered friends better, especially the kind that often meet their end at processing plants. But none of that for Florence. The quiet, curious turkey was one of three rescued from a plant in Maryland when she was a youngster. . . .
“Florence and her cage mate, Boris, were sent to live with Davis at her bird sanctuary almost five years ago. But Boris died two years later of a respiratory infection typical of mass-produced birds. Florence, however, has flourished. ‘She’s very hardy,’ Davis said.
“Her love of fowl began in the mid-1980s after she met a chicken she named Viva [see pp. 10-12 in this issue of PoultryPress]. . . .
“Even before that, by the early 1970s, Davis had changed her eating habits and become a strict vegetarian. Her diet doesn’t include any animal products. In 1990, she started United Poultry Concerns, a nonprofit organization that addresses the treatment of domestic fowl in meat production. In 1998, she looked for a small farm and found it among the poultry processing plants on the Eastern Shore.
“Many of the chickens at the sanctuary were rescued from local highways after falling off trucks on the way to the plants, Davis said. At the sanctuary, Florence gets along just fine. . . . In the fenced yard, Florence takes dust baths, flopping her wings and feathers in the dirt, and sun bathes. She appears to enjoy her status as the only one of her kind on the farm. For a turkey, she’s rather quiet, Davis said. Florence prefers to observe and listen, cocking her head one way and then the other to consider the world around her.
“This Sunday, she’ll be the center of attention. For the past several years, Davis has opened her home and her farm after the holiday for a not-so-traditional potluck vegan meal. The Pennsylvania native has had anywhere from 15 to 50 people join her, she said. . . . They’ll be eating things like Mrs. Gobble-Good’s Golden Brown Pie, a recipe made of lentils, carrots, celery, onions and diced potatoes that Davis includes in a brochure she hands out about the plight of turkeys produced for meat. . . .”
There is nothing better than properly fried chicken! I guess you could say that I love chicken!!!!!!!!
So should I go to Popeyes or KFC that day for lunch?
ok, no one choke one on that day
Please don't choke any chickens today.
Saw Brit Hume yesterday talking about this. The nutcases were arguing among other things that chickens are smart.
Maybe in comparison to the nutcases...
Isn't it enough that I love them?
I' like to wish everyone a wholehearted and sincere Happy Respect-fot-Chickens day!
I'm sorry I don't hhave yall's gifts. Like we do Christmas, in my family we usually do our celebration/get-together on Respect-for-Chickens Eve every year, as opposed to the actual day.
Bones
My sister really liked Bojangles in South Carolina and it was NOT like the filth that is passed off as Bojangles here in NY. As for myself, I am eschewing the flesh of chicken for health reasons.
"I love chickens, Eddy!" - Ed of "Ed, Edd and Eddy" 
Chick-Fil-A here I come!
How about Church's? They have the best fried chicken in Topeka, bar none.
Who has the recipes?
By the way, just to exhibit how whacked out Takoma Park, Maryland is, it's city council, a number of years ago, declared it a nuclear-free zone. Ah, those were the days.
Most of the folks who live there think that history halted in 1968. Just hit a wall.
If any city or town in America would be likely to have a statue to a rooster, Takoma Park is it.
What ain't fruits is nuts, in Takoma Park.
I will observe this by have in 20 piece bucket of original recipe KFC for my families diner tonight.
Man, that recipe sounds good!
>>>>Sounds like PETA, stinging from their loss to California's dairy industry, are now turning their attention to poultry.
They started after the poultry farmers back in 2001 (well, agressively). They are trying to keep farmers and breeders from being able to ship poultry and eggs.
http://www.birdshippers.com/index.html
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