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
YUP!
You forgot my favorite -- chicken tamales!
“Feathers for crafts & tying flies for fishing.”
Now you are talking Diana.
Heck, I was wondering what you, Grammy, and I were going to be doing when you retire here in “God’s Country,” the great state of Tennessee.
Fortunately, the state lawmakers here had the good sense, several years ago, to pass a roadkill bill, where it is legal to pick up roadkilled animals of all sorts.
All those deer, possums, chickens, and other creatures make beautiful artificial flies, which have the ability to fool trout and other finned species.
We will start our own fly shop, and then we’ll have to go and test the flies, to make sure they work.
It’ll be hard — all that fishing — but we will do what we have to do. It’s a hard job, but we must stand up to the challenge!!!!
I'm sure there are thousands out there that will be indebted to y'all, someone has to do the heavy lifting. And just for medicinal purposes y'all should take a couple of Mason jars along.
Don’t forget we will have to know which fly works on which river... so there will be a lot of comparisons to be done!
You never know when some pesky thing like a throbbing tooth, head, arthiritus, whatever, might call for some intervention.
Just in case, you MIGHT need a little nip.
Shhh!!! Don’t tell anybody.
My (late) 80 plus year old Grandma McCoy didn’t brag about it, but she always had a jar in her cupboard.
For medicinal purposes, of course.
She never abused it, but would pull out that jar when someone needed some intervention.
God bless her, I remember her pulling it out for me and my crazy brother a few times.
Now this little (90 pounds soaking wet) old white haired lady didn’t take no *** off nobody. Once, when my crazy brother and I invited a bunch of teenagers over to Granny’s house without her permission, she got her point across.
After her telling us about three times to tell our company to leave the premises, we didn’t.
Then, when Granny stood on her front porch and shot that pistol of hers straight up in the air about three times, the kids scattered.
We were the most UNPOPULAR kids in town for a while. But we didn’t even think about messing with Granny McCoy again after that (grin). When she said “jump” she meant it, and we knew she did.
But now and then, she could be understanding, and would pull that jar out of her cupboard, and chill us out.
If Granny had of been a degreed pyschologist, she’d of made a fortune.
Them there chickens sure look abused to me.
You should have seen the one I fried today.
I dusted it in flour and then rolled it in egg. Then put it in flour again, before dropping it in a hot pan of grease.
I am the one who was probably abused, after my cholestoral level went through the roof.
I don’t honor chickens in this manner too often (I do the baked, healthy version mostly). But ever now and then, a fella needs a good deep fat fried chicken, and if you are a Southern native, you know that this is a traditon I must carry on.
I think those activists are planning a coop d’etat.
I have a few pictures of them with panties on their heads but I fear posting them on a public forum could rioting and a cause a chicken coup in my chicken coop.
Absolutely! Isn't it amazing how many in our previous generations "got it" without higher learning? Maybe a lot of them did because that higher learning didn't mess up their minds.
;-)
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