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 Photo by: Wayne Wills
UPC Sanctuary Assistant Holly Wills with Friend, Aubrey |
Vegan - More Than Just "Tofu and Sprouts"
 Governments, corporations and others are
looking for smarter, more efficient technologies to neutralize the
negative impacts of intensive farmed animal production. There is this
idea, this hope, that 6 billion-plus people on the p***t, devouring
huge quantities of animal products, can somehow consist with "humane,
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Go Vegan
 MorningStar Farms, a Kellogg's company, is a leader in providing delicious vegan products. They include:
Meal Starters Chik'n Strips
Meal Starters Steak Strips
Grillers Original Vegan Burger
Meal Starters Grillers Recipe Crumbles
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Humane Education Committee Brings Teachers & Students Together for Chickens at New York City Conference, Jan. 26  Chickens Can Fly: Learning About Farmed Animals and Farm Sanctuaries
provided a unique opportunity in learning to incorporate creative and
interdisciplinary lessons about chickens, and other animals raised on
farms, into the curriculum for teachers of grades pre-kindergarten to
twelve. |
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Minny's Dream
 Minny's Dream by Chickens' Lib founder Clare Druce
is a powerful and moving story about a young girl's encounter with a
"battery hen" named Minny, who begs her friend Paula to set her free. |
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Chickens Slaughtered by New York Students: Curriculum Cruelty in the Classroom
On December 12, 2007, high school students slaughtered 22 chickens as
an elective classroom exercise in Eric Cosman's ecology class at
Canandaigua Academy in upstate New York. UPC member Joel Freedman,
chairman of the public education committee of Animal Rights Advocates
of Upstate New York, published the following letter describing his
effort to stop the killings: |
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Legal News
In light of investigations documenting extreme cruelty to birds in
slaughter plants in Arkansas, West Virginia, and Maryland, the Humane
Society of the United States and California-based East Bay Animal
Advocates sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on November 21, 2005,
challenging the exclusion of poultry from the Humane Methods of
Slaughter Act, and seeking to ensure that the birds are unconscious
before being slaughtered. |
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International Respect for Chickens Day, May 4, 2008
Listed in Chase's Calendar of Events  Launched in 2005, International Respect for
Chickens Day is a project of United Poultry Concerns designed to
celebrate the beauty, dignity and life of chickens and to protest
against the bleakness of their lives in farming operations. We
encourage people to do an ACTION for chickens on or around May 4 - May
is International Respect for Chickens Month!
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Chicken Photo Calendar Contest - Enter Your Favorite Chicken Photo!
Please join Chicken Run Rescue and United Poultry Concerns in
recognizing May as International Respect for Chickens Month. We invite
you to capture the beauty, joy, intelligence, dignity, agility, and
zany exuberance of your birds in a photograph. Each year, twelve
winning photos will be published in a calendar and winners will receive
a free calendar. All of the proceeds of the calendar sales will enable
Chicken Run Rescue to continue to help chickens for another year.
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Debeaking: The Defining Moment for Me  About four years ago I watched a film that
our Unitarian Church was showing about farmed animal abuse. I forget
the name of the film but remember that it was narrated by Mary Tyler
Moore. Looking back, I realize it was actually a very mild depiction of
factory farming. I've since seen much worse.
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