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“Birds Aren’t Real” ––if only those in poultry barns were not

May 8, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The good news is,  vegan food technology means the birds on the menu need not be real MEMPHIS,  Tennessee––The avian advocacy world is still aflutter,  a week after CBS News 60 Minutes reporter Sharyn Alfonsi extensively exposed the “Birds Aren’t Real” hoax conspiracy theory orchestrated from Memphis by 24-year-old University of Arkansas dropout and former […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Cameron Kasky, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Peter McIndoe, Respect for Chickens, Sharyn Alfonsi, United Poultry Concerns

H5N1 avian flu: bird culls, food prices, Ukraine war, & cockfighting converge

March 22, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Waterfowl meeting mostly in the Russian Arctic infect factory farms worldwide             AMES,  Iowa––Just as the COVID-19 pandemic afflicting the world since January 2020 seems to be letting up,  the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories are warning everyone concerned about birds,  wild or domestic,  to beware of the first outbreak of High […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Asia/Pacific, Central Europe, Chickens, China, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Disease, Ducks & geese, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, France, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Pigeon flying, Poultry, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: cockfighters, foie gras, Ian Brown, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Beldomenico, United Poultry Concerns

The dilemma of backyard chicken-keeping

February 2, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, Ph.D.,  president, United Poultry Concerns “Would you be pleased if chickens came to be viewed more and more as animals to be kept as pets? Is the routine objection of neighbors to roosters insuperable?” This inquiry was prompted by a January 28,  2022 Boston Globe article about a family’s lawsuit to keep […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, USA Tagged With: Karen Davis, Marcela Garcia, Perdue, Tractor Supply Company, Tyson, United Poultry Concerns

Plane crashes & slaughterhouses: who suffers more?

January 15, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Helpless in a cage by Karen Davis,  Ph.D.,  president,  United Poultry Concerns On January 8,  2020,  passenger flight 752, headed from the Iranian capital of Tehran to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev,  was shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran, killing all 176 occupants,  including 167 passengers. The jet continued flying for […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: John Woolman, Karen Davis, Mark Slouka, Peter Singer, United Poultry Concerns

Kaporos: chicken soup for the soulless?

September 27, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

UPDATE: Opponents of Kaporos will on September 28,  2017 hold a candlelight vigil in Borough Park,  Brooklyn,  co-hosted by the Animal Cruelty Exposure Fund,  Their Turn,  NYCLASS,  Long Island Orchestrating for Nature,  New York Farm Animal Save,  New York Animal Defenders,  and the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos,  a project of United Poultry Concerns. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Islam, Judaism, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Jay Michaelson, Judge Debra James, Kaporos, Karen Davis, Michael Pollan, Naomi Goldberg, Nora Constance Marino, Rabbi Shea Hecht, Shlomo Goren, United Poultry Concerns, Yonassan Gershom

What Do Backyard Chickens and Factory Farm Chickens Have in Common?

June 24, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns “Dear Animal Shelter, I see you have a rooster right now. I have a placement lined up for him and would like to pick him up Saturday.” Animal Shelter: “Thanks for inquiring about the rooster. It’s great to know there is a potential placement for him. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Live markets, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Bill Gates Foundation, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Sherwood Anderson, United Poultry Concerns

Courting hen & egg producers leads animal charities into deep @#$%

June 24, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

The AHA and HSUS have each hit the other repeatedly with figurative volleys of rotten eggs          FRESNO, California––Which came first, the American Humane Association and Humane Society of the U.S. courting dances with hen and egg producers, or egg on the faces of spokespersons trying to explain the chicken poop outcomes? Frequently bitter rivals […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry, USA, Welfare Tagged With: AHA, Foster Farms, Hillandale Farms, HSUS, Karen Davis, Paul Shapiro, United Poultry Concerns, United Poultry Producers, Wayne Pacelle, Whole Foods Markets

Fire safety standards sought for barns

March 10, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

National Fire Protection Association proposes to require sprinkler systems in farm animal housing                 QUINCY,  Massachusetts––A January 31,  2014 fire that killed 300,000 egg-laying hens at the S&R Egg Farm in La Grange,  Wisconsin has reignited notice of a National Fire Protection Association proposal to require sprinkler systems […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Eggs, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry Tagged With: fire, hens, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, United Poultry Concerns

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