Posted on 05/03/2008 8:06:32 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance
| International Respect for Chickens Day, May 4, celebrates the devotion of hens to their chicks and deplores the suffering of motherless chickens on factory farms. In this photo, Ruby fosters Ivy, a chick rescued from a factory farm in North Carolina to live in a safe and loving home. (PRNewsFoto/United Poultry Concerns) MACHIPONGO, VA UNITED STATES |
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May is International Respect for Chickens Month
MACHIPONGO, Va., April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- International
Respect for Chickens Day, May 4, celebrates the dignity, beauty and life of
chickens and protests against the bleakness of their lives in farming
operations. Launched by United Poultry Concerns in 2005, International
Respect for Chickens Day traces to famed star of The Simpsons, Harry
Shearer, who proclaimed Sunday, May 14, 2000 -- Mother's Day -- National
Respect the Chicken Day to honor the devotion of mother hens to their
chicks.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080429/DC20730 )
In Letters from an American Farmer, historian St. John de Crevecoeur
wrote, in 1782, "I never see an egg brought to my table but I feel
penetrated with the wonderful change it would have undergone but for my
gluttony; it might have been a gentle, useful hen leading her chickens with
a care and vigilance which speaks shame to many women. A cock perhaps,
arrayed with the most majestic plumes, tender to his mate, bold,
courageous, endowed with an astonishing instinct, with thoughts, with
memory, and every distinguishing characteristic of the reason of man."
United Poultry Concerns urges people to do an ACTION for chickens on or
around May 4 -- leafleting on a busy street corner, tabling, writing a
letter to the editor, holding an office party or classroom celebration,
showing the movie Chicken Run, or simply talking to people about the plight
and delight of chickens.
In honor of the event, Minneapolis-based Chicken Run Rescue is holding
its Third Annual Chicken Calendar Photo Contest to capture the beauty of
chickens in a photograph
(http://www.brittonclouse.com/chickenrunrescue/photos08/index.php?x=about). Other
activities are being held in places that include Orange County, Ca.,
Tucson, Az., Oak Park, Il., Almo, Ky., and Philadelphia, Pa. In Washington,
DC, United Poultry Concerns has placed a colorful month-long ad in 220
Metrorail Cars showing a man expressing compassion for a rooster
(http://www.upc-online.org/respect/index.html).
On Sunday afternoon, May 4, UPC will hold a demonstration for chickens
near the American History Museum on the National Mall, and on Thursday
afternoon, May 8, UPC will leaflet people on the Lafayette Park sidewalk
across from the White House, urging everyone to "Show Compassion and Stick
Up For Chickens!"
United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the
compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl. On the Web at
http://www.upc-online.org.
Contact Information
Karen Davis: Karen@upc-online.org
757-678-7875
There’s no wrong way to cook chicken IMO.
I will save any chicken that brings me steak.
Saw that sign in Tampa last week. Gave me a chuckle.
You’re making me hungry.........but I defrosted some venison filet mignons for dinner!
Absolutely!
I love cooking chicken and finding new ways to fix it, and I always make sure I have plenty for leftover, because I enjoy finding new ways to deal with them just as much!!!
I jealous! I have to make do with left over roasted wild turkey.
My wife took first in the “Non-Professional: Entree” category of a newspaper cook-off, using a chicken recipe she came up with. It started out as a way to use left over chicken.
I had to eat the “experiments” as she worked out & recorded the exact amounts of each ingredient, to comply with the contest rules.
Such hardships we endure, in the name of research and marital bliss! Glad it was tasty, juicy, and crunchable.
YUM!!!!!!!!!
ROFL!!!!!!
You sound like my husband! The torture he endures when I'm trying out a new jam or jelly.......heeheehee!
He's getting ready to light the grill, so I best get on the stick and get the rice going..........our daughter is at a minor league baseball game with friends, so we are taking advantage of those filets when it's just the 2 of us :)
BBL
"Oh, chicken, chicken, chicken,
Can't cluck too much for me.
Oh, chicken, chicken, chicken,
Climb down outa that tree!"
Good for you!!!!!! I hate when my husband does that — it means I have to do the dishes.
And only men can blow a week’s food budget on one meal, while using every pot, pan, and gadget in the kitchen to prepare it.
A few years ago there was a factory farm here locally who sold his property and had no use then for his thousands of young caged hens. He was going to just have them butchered for no good reason.
The local wacko rescue group stepped in and he basically said to them if you want them come and get them. The group sprung into action and put out the word - young hens to be had, charging $2 a head (so people presumably wouldn't buy them for slaughter).
Almost every single hen got adopted out. We got six of them. When the rescue got them they could barely walk and their combs were pale pale pink due to lack of sunlight, plus their beaks were cut short to prevent picking.
Now these former factory hens have normal coloring, take dirt baths with the other hens, peck about in leisure, lay their eggs, and won't be killed when they quit laying.
To me that's a rescue story with a non-wacko ending.
That’s funny!!!!
Tonight’s dinner cost probably, at most $1.50. The only purchased items used were the various condiments and seasonings I used to marinate the meat and the packed rice mix I used (and that only cost 79 cents), the green beans were from our garden and we butchered the deer ourselves.
We’re not frugal in this house, we’re downright CHEAP!!!!!
“Respect them? I love them.”
I have the utmost respect for chickens. As a raiser of laying hens, I find the chicken to be one of the most useful critters on the planet.
Eggs.
Feathers for crafts & tying flies for fishing.
Chicken Soup.
Chicken livers fried up w/bacon & onion. Yum!
Jerk Chicken.
BBQ Chicken.
Roast Chicken.
Chicken Quesadillas.
Chicken Salad Sandwiches.
Compost for the garden.
Food for the local Coyotes. (When one dies of natural causes, usually just Old Age, I take it to the end of the farm lane and give it back to Nature.)
They wake me up on time each day.
They really have a calming influence on me. I find their gentle clucking very relaxing...and they will “cuddle up” just like a dog or a cat.
An all around perfect creature. :)
“Release your chickens now, and seek salvation!!!!”
Um...you know how I get when someone tells me what to do and how to live my life.
Now, where’s my Killin’ Cone!?! LOL!
Us, too. One 12Ga shell for the turkey; the rest reasonably priced 8 meals over four days of the turkey, then boil down & a-la-king for a couple of days.
Unfortunately, we just got another 8” of snow yesterday, though mostly gone today, seemingly called by my planting snow peas last week.
Other than that, just my fall-planted garlic & the rhubarb.
Have to run; the movie starts in a half hour.
Have fun!
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