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Chickens
42-Day
Wonders
Tom Horton, Washingtonian Magazine, feature — September
2006
Like all the Rieley children, Megan, 16,
helps raise and care for the chickens. "I really
hate killing 'em, but you gotta do what you
gotta do"... the profit in raising chickens
now lies in volume. A new grower who doesn't raise
half a million or more a year probably can't make
it...
Disease
Takes Wing
James Carroll, in Common Dreams from Boston Globe, commentary — February
2006
If birds are not a friend to the human species,
where in all of nature is friendship to be found? Each
day come more reports of the dispersal of diseased
poultry and fowl, moving from east to west, Asia into
Europe, and alarms begin to sound...
Bird
Flu Coning Home to Roost
Michael Greger, Satya Magazine Interview — February 2006
When you have tens of thousands of chickens
overcrowded in filthy football field size sheds, beak-to-beak
in their own waste, one should not be surprised that
these are veritable breeding grounds for emerging infectious
diseases...
Whistleblower
on the Kill Floor — The Satya Interview with
Virgil Butler and Laura Alexander
Satya Magazine — February 2006
When I first started killing me, it really bothered me... The more I did it,
the less it bothered me. I became desensitized. The killing room does something
to your mind...
Blue
Hens Beloved, Extinct, Illegal, Collectible
Robin Brown, The News Journal, feature — February
2006
"They're for curiosity sake," Gelb
said. "If we don't keep them, who the heck would?"...
Avian
Influenza: Action Alert
Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns, essay — November
2005
If
there is any doubt that the human species has violated
the privilege of sharing the earth with the other
creatures, the spread and handling of avian influenza
dispels it. People ask, what can we do? The answer
is, we can stop eating birds and their eggs and we
can try to help as many birds as we can...
Eggs:
Battery or Free Range?
The Independent, feature — October 2005
The
cruelty of intensive chicken-farming is turning many
consumers against battery eggs but, as Hester Lacey
explains, 'free range' may not be the natural paradise
you think it is...
Drugged
Gamecocks Rehab at Chicken Sanctuary
Amir Efrati, The Wall Street Jounal, feature — July
2005
Felipe,
an orange-feathered rooster from Pennsylvania, faced
near-certain death when police busted his cockfighting
match on a rural compound in 2001. Instead, he checked
into the Eastern Shore Chicken Sanctuary...
Funeral
For a Hen
pattrice le-muir jones, essays — June
2005
When Fanny arrived at the sanctuary, she
was shockingly skinny and had very few of her lovely
red feathers. She and her peers looked more like monsters
than birds. Having spent years perched on wire in cramped
cages, they could hardly walk...
The
Battle Over Welfare vs. Rights
Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns, essay — June
2005
Are
we really representing a caged hen's wishes when we
say that she would reject a touch of comfort short
of total liberation? And who, under any circumstances,
would reject a less inhumane death for themselves or
for someone they loved?...
How
Pigs Could be Launchpad for Bird Flu Pandemic
James Meilde, The Guardian, feature — June 2005
A virologist from Hong Kong warned pigs
could provide a launchpad, even if birds carrying the
virus, which is causing havoc in Vietnam, Cambodia
and Thailand, failed to do so...
Group
Targets 'Animal Care Certified' Label
James Drew, Toledo
Blade, feature — February 2005
But
last year, the national advertising division of the Council
of Better Business Bureaus referred the Animal Care Certified
logo on egg cartons to the Federal Trade Commission for
possible law-enforcement action...
Cockfighting
May Be On Its Last Legs
Elizabeth
Nash, The Independent, feature — January 2005
Emboldened
by their success and polls which show an overwhelming majority
is opposed to cockfighting... those campaigners are now actively
targeting these final redoubts of the sport. Cockfighting is
fighting for its life...
The
Life of One Battery Hen
Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns — August
2004
The two-way communication
between themselves and a mother hen — the continuous
interaction which they are genetically endowed to expect,
and which they need — has not occurred. The mother
hen's heartbeat is missing, and she does not respond to the
embryos' calls of distress or comfort them with her soft
clucks...
Echoes
of Abu Ghraib in Chicken Slaughterhouses
Peter Singer, Karen Dawn, New York Times, commentary — July 2004
When humans have unchecked power over those
they see as inferior, they may abuse it. Slaughterhouse
workers do not expect to be chastised for hurting animals.
And the American soldiers at Abu Ghraib clearly did
not expect punishment, or they would not have posed
for photographs...
Humanity Can't Be Forgotten, Even When Slaughtering Poultry
Wayne Pacelle, HSUS, commentary — July 2004
The humane slaughter law [1958] exempted
poultry. And that exemption stands to this day. More
than 9 billion chickens and turkeys are slaughtered
every year — 95 percent of all animals killed for food in the United States — and
they are entirely at the mercy of major chicken processors...
Into
the Frying Pan:
Virginia's Egg Business Heats Up — But Is There
a Difference Between Factory and Farm?
Laura LaFay, Style Weekly, feature — April 2004
But
when you pull into the parking lot, there is not a chicken to be seen or a
cluck to be heard. To the left of the lot stands the egg-processing plant.
To the right, five long windowless “chicken houses." Except
for the sound of an American flag snapping in the wind, all is silent...
Avian
Influenza — Death Toll 50 Million and Rising!
Sasha,
senior high school paper — February
2004
The
current way in which poultry have been handled and
slaughtered is completely unacceptable in terms of
animal welfare, and has been largely ignored by international
bodies responsible for handling this outbreak...
Tastes
Like (Mutant) Chicken:
The Great McDonald's Diet Test, and Why Ukranians Won't Touch Your Buffalo Wings
Mark Morford, SF Gate, commentary — January 2004
We consider ourselves omnipotent and untouchable and the world’s paragon of virile capitalist vitality, when in fact the world sees us as this giant flaccid flabby glutton who blindly believes everything the McDonald’s marketing slogans spits our way. I'm lovin' it!...
Chickens
and Chimpanzees: The Odd Couple of the Animal Rights
Movement
Karen Davis, Satya Magazine, essay — 2002
Just as human verbal language is one of
the many languages of life, so our particular type
of intelligence is one among many. If people feel threatened
by the idea of equality beyond human primatology, that
is our problem to solve...
Inside
the Egg Factories
Laura Moretti, Animals Voice, feature
On
a battery farm, the relentless caged cacophony is
deafening. In the hatchery—hopelessly buried beneath the
nonchalance of egg factory processing—is the
fever-pitch peeping of desperately dying, newly born
birds...
Killer
in the Night
Maya Khankhoje, poem
i
tried to align / the tip of my gun / with the tip
of your nose / as it is done in the movies / and
pull the damn trigger / which refused to budge /
i had to kill you but could not...
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