International Respect for Chickens Day, May 4
Celebrates Chickens
United Poultry Concerns
May 1, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Karen Davis 757-678-7875
www.upc-online.org
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 website and am assembling them into
packets to distribute at my office." - Chalon Carroll Young, Esq.
Kissimmee, Fla.
"I'm president of a student group at Princeton University and we're
setting up a table and posting flyers." - Jenny Palmer, Princeton, NJ.
"I'm the teacher-librarian at a big high school and we're putting up
posters to celebrate this great day." - Patti Healey, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
"We're asking you to capture the beauty, joy, intelligence, dignity,
agility and zany exuberance of your chickens for our 2nd annual Chicken
Calendar photo contest." - Mary Britton Clouse, Chicken Run Rescue,
Minneapolis, Minn.
"We have two groups of a total of 100 6th graders coming for a tour on
May 4 and we plan to celebrate with them." - Terry Cummings, Poplar
Spring Animal Sanctuary, Poolesville, Md.
"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. We want people to do a good deed for chickens and not eat
them."
For more information about International Respect for Chickens Day, visit
http://www.upc-online.org
Contact Karen Davis, Ph.D.
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