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Spring-Summer 2012 Volume 22, Number 1

Poultry PressPromoting the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl

Celebrating 22 years of dedicated activism for domestic fowl

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World-amous artist Sue Coe, author oDead Meatand Cruel, created Te Screaming Hen orthis edition oPoultry Press. Te hen screaming in her enriched cage echoes Norwegian artistEdvard Munchs amous depiction o his experience, related in his diary in 1892, o hearingan innite scream passing through nature. Te Scream has been described as an expressionistevocation o an individual suering rom a sense o total distortion o ones environment andones sel. Te proximity o a slaughterhouse and a madhouse to the site depicted in Munchsscreaming gure may have inuenced his portrait o innite agony. Please turn the page . . .


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Agreement Raises Flags for Egg-Laying Hens:A Chicken Activists Perspective on the New DealBy Karen Davis, PhD, President of United PoultryConcerns

What is that gun fring or? said Boxer.o celebrate our victory! cried Squealer.What victory? said Boxer.

FromAnimal Farm by George Orwell

he January/February 2012 edition oAnimalPeopleincluded a ull-page ad headlinedIts ime to Ban Barren Battery Cages

Nationwide, urging readers to ask Congress to supportthe Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments o 2012.

he ad told us that All the groups that have beenleading the ight to ban battery cages such as thoselisted below actively support this legislation, becauseits the best opportunity to help the largest number oarm animals.

he irst part o this statement is alse, and thesecond part begs the question, since whether theproposed legislation is the best we can do or egg-layinghens is at the heart o the current debate over the shit

in the animal protection movement rom trumpet callsto ban cages or egg-laying hens to ban barren cages

or egg-laying hens.o begin with, not all groups that have been

leading the ight to ban battery cages actively supportthe proposed legislation. here is a mixture o sharpopposition and apprehensive ambivalence among us.Secondly, some groups so credited havent led the ightto ban battery cages at all. Some have done little ornothing o note.

As George Orwell amously observed in his writingsabout the politics o language, rewriting history isa commonplace strategy used by politicians and

powerbrokers to get people to go along with shitingagendas. People can orget the acts o even the mostrecent past.

For the record, then, I must recall that UnitedPoultry Concerns put chickens on the map o U.S.animal advocacy back when we were being told by someactivist leaders, in the late eighties and early nineties,that nobody would ever care about chickens. We tookthe challenge and proved otherwise.

WHY IS HIS HEN SCREAMING?

In Agreement Raises Red Flags, we look atthe eort to ban battery cages or egg-layinghens in Europe and the United States. InJanuary, a bill was introduced to the U.S.

Congress called the Egg Products InspectionAct o 2012 (HB 3798). It advocates aederal law that would allow battery cagesto continue in the orm o enriched cages.I enacted in 2030, the ederal law willpreempt state eorts to ban allcages, criticssay. For more inormation about HB 3798,seewww.RottenEggBill.org, a websitecreated by the Humane Farming Association.

The Screamby Edvard Munch


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(continued) Agreement Raises Flags for Egg-Laying Hens

among other deects o enriched cages, the teensydustbathing scratch patch o a box o sand or woodshavings in each cage would likely increase the airbornedebris in the caged environment, already denselypolluted with toxic gases, loating eathers, skin dander,

and pathogens. Increasing the load o airborne particleswould exacerbate the respiratory inections and eyeirritation rom which caged hens already suer.

Druce urther noted that while laying hens do neednest boxes, enriched cages would make meaningulinspections o the hens already next to impossible even harder. She asked: Will the nesting box becareully inspected, daily? Will checks be made to see ia hen in there is in act laying an egg, resting, escaping,or merely dying rom cage layer atigue?

Based on copious investigative evidence o whatactually goes on in caged-hen operations, the answeris No. Despite two decades o European campaignsto prevent enriched cages rom being adopted asan alternative to the conventional, barren cage, theEuropean Union law that went into eect on January 1,2012 allows the use o enriched cages, just as the EUegg industry lobby wanted all along.

Enriched cages in the U.S.

In 2010, a coalition o U.S. arm animal sanctuariespublished a position statement,which I wrote, titled FarmedAnimal Sanctuaries OpposeEnriched Cages or LayingHens. We explained thatCaliornias Proposition 2 (thePrevention o Farm AnimalCruelty Act, supported by8.2 million voters in theNovember 2008 election)

did not necessarily ban cagesin Caliornia. he new law,eective in 2015, required onlythat Caliornias egg-laying hensmust have enough room to liedown, ully extend their legsand wings, and be able to turnaround without bumping intoother hens or enclosure walls.

However, most signatures-gatherers or Proposition2 believed that this ballot measure, i enacted, wouldban battery cages in Caliornia not just barren cagesbut all cages. hat was how the Humane Society o theUnited States ramed the initiative, which also implied

that eachhen, acting simultaneously, must be able toextend her limbs ully without touching other hens orwalls, whereas what was actually meant was that just onehen at a time must be able to do these things.

In June 2010, claiming compliance with Proposition2, egg producer J.S. West & Co. opened the irstenriched cage system or laying hens in the U.S., inLivingston, Caliornia. A celebratory photograph o anenriched cage load o hens being wheeled into theircolony barn appeared on the ront page oFeedstus,the weekly agribusiness publication, on June 28, 2010.Noting that more than 230 guests had attended thebarns opening a week earlier, Feedstusreported thatwhile American Humane Certiied approved the system,in which each hen would supposedly have 116 squareinches o living space, the Humane Society o theUnited States opposed it.

HSUS reacted with astonishment at the eronteryo J.S. West & Co. HSUS in a September 15, 2009press release said that Prop 2s proponents have alwaysbeen crystal clear that the measure requires cage-ree

hen housing, and that United Egg Producers and

Feedstuffs photo, June 28, 2010


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HSUS had agreed very explicitly that these so-calledurnished or enriched cages would be prohibited i themeasure passed.

J.S. Wests 116 square inches o living space perhen prevented hens rom being able to ully extendtheir wings without touching other birds. Perormanceo basic normal behavior requires a minimum o1.5 square eet per bird, or 216 square inches, HSUSexplained, and went on to accuse UEP o reneging onits assertion the day ater the election that cages orlaying hens will certainly be outlawed.

Step forward two years.

Compassion in World Farming, which had longcried oul at the prospect o enriched cages or layinghens as opposed to a ban on all cages, on July 7, 2011issued a statement welcoming an agreement trumpetedthat day by HSUS and United Egg Producers, wherebythe ormer oes would now work together or ederallegislation to ban barren cages or egg-laying hens in theUnited States but not caging itsel.

Just two years earlier, on June 18, 2009, HSUS

had blasted Double-alk by Egg Industry or itshead-snapping turn-around plot to amend CaliorniaAssembly bill AB 1437, which sought to applyProposition 2 standards to the sale o whole eggsrom out-o-state as well as in-state sources, by addinglanguage that would let Caliornia egg producerscontinue keeping hens in cages.

Seethed HSUS, Whats even stranger about thispost-election maneuver is that it contradicts just about

everything the egg industry leaders said during thecampaign.

Yet now HSUSs charge o UEPs peridy readslike a pun on George OrwellsAnimal Farm, wherethe leaders o revolutionary progress are constantlyreversing themselves through backroom deals with

ormer adversaries in a downward spiral that saps andbeuddles the animal citizens o Manor Farm.

Writing to Feedstuson January 20, 2012, UnitedEgg Producers president Gene Gregory deended theUEP alliance with HSUS. He said that a nationalstandard through ederal legislation, such as HR 3798introduced three days later by U.S. RepresentativeKurt Schrader o Oregon, was the only way toensure the industrys uture. He said it was the

only way to avoid a bleak uture o overlapping,inconsistent, unworkable state-based animal welarestandards that will result rom ballot initiatives that ourindustry cannot win even i as we did in Caliornia in2008 we raise millions o dollars to try to educate thepublic.

Follow the money.

Until 2011, the HSUS campaign or cage-reeegg production had the U.S. egg industry scared. Fearo HSUS led UEP to reach out to HSUS in March

2011, Gregory told Feedstus. Would HSUS presidentWayne Pacelle be receptive to a transition to enrichedcolony cages as an option to ending our conlict?

he rest is history. HSUS and UEP now bothsay that abandonment o cage-ree ballot campaigns isthe only solution. Both sides stress that their pact is ainancial solution.

Under the new dispensation, battery cages, albeitenriched with new plastic urniture that will soon beilthy, will be enshrined. Once the U.S. egg industryinvests $4 billion-plus dollars into converting to

enriched cages with their zillions o welare devices,the system will be in place. Ditto in the EuropeanUnion.

In September 2011, Gene Gregory o UEP toldEgg Industrymagazine that cage-ree egg productionis not economically sustainable and doesnt improvethe welare o the animals. wo years earlier, WaynePacelle o HSUS cited the egg industrys own economicanalysis to argue that cage-ree eggs would add less

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(continued) Agreement Raises Flags for Egg-Laying Hensthan a penny per egg . . . a modest cost, while reiterating that enriched cages areinhumane.

Since then, HSUS has undergone an Orwellian transormation. In How woBitter Adversaries Hatched A Plan o Change he Egg Industry, broadcast byNational Public Radio on February 10, 2012, Pacelle said he now sympathizes with

the daily struggles that a lot o armers go through, economically. Looking atphotos o the ormer adversaries on Capitol Hill, I cant help visualizing the ending toOrwellsAnimal Farm. he animals gaze stupeied at the Manor House. hey rushedback and looked through the window again. heir leaders were rolicking with theenemy, toasting business deals! hey try to tell one rom the other, but already it wasimpossible to say which was which.

A new era for hens?

here is reason to worry about the uture o Americas hens, who are said in astatement by HSUS and UEP to give us their eggs. No, we

stealtheir eggs and

torture the birds in ways I cant describe or lack o space.Even i the proposed ederal law passes, the majority o hens will remain

entombed in cages on actory arms. hey will be locked into a ederal lawadministered by the U.S. Department o Agriculture which does not even enorce the54-year-old Humane Slaughter Act, rom which birds are excluded.

At most, brown hens, being slightly larger than the white hens, may within 18years get a maximum o 144 square inches apiece, or one square oot per bird. EvenUEP said that hens need a minimum o 1.5 square eet, or 216 square inches, toengage in minimal normal behavior.

Claims that the deal with UEP will mandate humane transport and euthanasia

o spent, injured, or ill hens are unrealistic. In truth, they are lies. Partial beakamputation will continue. Killing newly hatched male chicks in egg productionacilities by the millions will proceed as usual.

Given that no amount o legislation will ever create truly humane treatmento mass-produced hens or any other mass-produced animals, I urge people aspassionately as I did in 1996 to orego eggs in avor o egg-ree, vegan oods. Karen Davis, PhD, President o United Poultry Concerns.

-----------------his article, slightly edited, appears in the March 2012 edition oANIMAL

PEOPLE, the leading independent newspaper providing original investigative coverageo animal protection worldwide.www.animalpeoplenews.org.


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Chicken Slaughter Art Exhibit Blocked by United Poultry Concerns andAnimal Outreach of Kansas; Public Outrage and Anticruelty Law Killed It.

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n he Story o Chickens: A Revolution,Amber Hansen, an artist-in-residence at theUniversity o Kansas, planned to cart ive

chickens, housed in a nomadic coop, through the cityo Lawrence in April. he chickens would be wheeledto various locations until April 21 when they wouldbe slaughtered in a public ceremony in Lawrence. heexhibition was supposed to stimulate public discussionover ood and arming.

However, animal activists in Lawrence alerted theCity Attorneys Oice, which inormed Hansen thather plan to transport and kill the chickens was illegalwithin city limits. he City Code prohibits willully ormaliciously killing any domestic animal.

Determination to stop the slaughter began onFeb. 8 when United Poultry Concerns and AnimalOutreach o Kansas launched an Internet campaignigniting animal activists, artists, scholars, and concernedcitizens in Lawrence and around the world to protest tothe University o Kansas Spencer Museum o Art andrelated institutions that supported the project.

Renowned visual artist Sue Coe, author oDeadMeatand Cruel, was joined by proessor o art historyat Northwestern University, Stephen Eisenman; Justice

or Animals Arts Guild ounder Mary Britton Clouse;and University o Kansas proessor Elizabeth Schultz inan outpour o opposition to the project arguing that itwas cruel, inartistic, and not revolutionary at all butan act o conventional violence to deenseless animals.Protecting chickens instead o hurting them is therevolutionary action, protesters proclaimed.

In an article on Feb. 29 in he Kansas City Star,Animal activists celebrate as Lawrence blocks chickenart project,United Poultry Concerns president KarenDavis said: We eel this project and our response to it

has helped Amber even though the original project hasbeen blocked. We also eel that she has been introducedto a sensibility about animals that maybe she hadntbeen exposed to beore.

he Kansas City Starnoted that when it irstreported on the project on Feb. 18, a barrage ocriticism was already beginning to reach the city.

Following a meeting with Amber on Feb. 27, Kansasactivist Judy Carman and University o Kansas proessor

Elizabeth Schultz conirmed there would be nochickens on display in public and no chickens publiclyslaughtered as planned. he closing ceremony on April21 will include at least one vegan dish, and Amber hasinvited Judy and Elizabeth to be among the speakers atthe event.

United Poultry Concerns and Animal Outreacho Kansas will continue working with allies in thearts to implement a local and national No Animals

in the Arts policy as has been implemented by theMinneapolis Institute o Arts and the Walker Art Centerin Minneapolis.

UPC president Karen Davis told heKansas CityStar: We do not believe that live animals should betreated as museum specimens or be art objects and wecertainly dont consider the slaughter o animals to beartistic. o view our campaign alerts, visitwww.upc-online.org/entertainment.

The Bird Rescuerby Sue Coe


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Regarding the Feb. 23 Metro article

Laying the groundwork or backyardhens:

I speak as a personwho has rescued, rehabilitatedand cared or chickens, inMaryland and Virginia, or25 years, since 1987. Keepingchickens properly involveswork. It involves dailycleaning o coops, water andood bowls.

It requires good veterinarycare or birds who becomeill with treatable respiratoryillnesses and other inections to which chickensare susceptible. It requires worming and othermedications.

It also involves money. O utmost importanceto chicken keepers is interest in the chickensthemselves, not just their eggs.

People who view chickens and other livingbeings as mere utilitarian organisms or their own

selish uses and who are unable to show compassion

and respect or the animals in their care should notkeep chickens or any other animals.

Chickens are highly sociablebirds. hey are keenly sensitiveto the attitudes expressed towardthem and to the treatment theyreceive rom those upon whomthey are orced to depend.

Chickens are notmere objects to extractbody parts rom. hey arenaturally cheerul, riendlyand enthusiastic individualsdeserving o the samecompassionate attention as ones

beloved companion dog or cat.

Karen Davis, Machipongo, Va.he writer is president o United Poultry Concerns

To learn more about urban backyard chicken-

keeping, see www.upc-online.org/backyard.

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The chickens hang there and look at you while

they are bleeding. They try to hide their head

from you by sticking it under the wing of the

chicken next to them on the slaughter line. You

can tell by them looking at you, theyre scared

to death.-Virgil Butler, former Tyson chicken

slaughterhouse worker

Millions of chickens are scalded alive each year. In tanks ofboiling water the chickens scream, kick, and their eyeballs popout of their heads, said Virgil Butler, who quit the chickenbusiness and became a vegetarian. He said: I could no longer

look at a piece of meat anymorewithout seeing the sad face of thesuffering animal who had lived in it

when she was alive.

Please choose compassion forchickens & a kinder world witha heart healthy vegan diet. Fordelicious recipes, visit

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and respectul treatment o domestic owl.

Misery In Every Mouthful.

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PC is running a series oprominent display ads in sixeditions o the University o

Maryland-College Park student newspaper,he Diamondback. Designed to showthe terrible suering o chickens inslaughterhouses, these ads are part o ourannual International Respect or ChickensDay Campaign. Donations or ouradvertising projects are always needed anddeeply appreciated. his series o quarter-page, spot-color ads runs rom March 8through May 12 at a total cost o $5511.22.housands o students, aculty members,alumni, and other campus ailiates readhe Diamondbackevery day. he Universityo Maryland statewide system is heavilyunded by Perdue Farms, which slaughtersmillions o chickens every week and illscampus eateries with its products.

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By Karen Davis, PhD, President of United PoultryConcerns

Tis article was published on the Internet WebsiteOne Green Planet, Feb. 13, 2012.

Now sustainable meat is all the rage.Grist, Jan. 31,2012

Since the late 1990s, something like masssupport or eliminating actory arminghas grown. Revelations o industrial animal

production practices and conditions have attractedmedia coverage, as Internet images and investigativereports document how animals in agribusiness are livingand dying horriically on actory arms.

But while these revelations have boosted a vegetarianresponse, the prevailing attitude at present is that whileindustrial animal arming is bad, people can continueto eat animal products that somehow avoid the tainto actory arming, arriving in supermarkets andrestaurants rom pastoral settings where animals arehappy, receive a respectul death, and contribute tothe health o the planet in being armed a daydream

popularized by Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, and otherood writers.

hus, he New York imeseditorialized in AHumane Egg, on July 11, 2010, that In act, there isno justiication, economic or otherwise, or the abusivepractice o conining animals in spaces barely larger thanthe volume o their bodies. Animals with more spaceare healthier, and they are no less productive. Industrialconinement is cruel and senseless and will turn out tobe, we hope, a relatively short-lived anomaly in modernarming.

While this may sound promising to some, it doesntit the reality that we know. Currently there are over7 billion human beings on the planet, and around65 billion land animals are being raised each yearworldwide or human consumption. he United StatesCensus Bureau expects the human population to reach7.5 billion to 10.5 billion by 2050, and an article inWorld Watch by Robert Goodland and Je Anhang,in 2009, predicted that the number o animals raised

globally or human consumption will double between2006 and 2050.he number o sea animals killed orAmericans alone in 2009 was 51 billion, and the UnitedNations Food & Agriculture Organization predicts thatglobal meat consumption will rise rom 233 million

tons to 300 million tons by 2020 (Feedstus Foodlink,March 28, 2011, p. 16).

One must ask how these numbers comport withthe idea o non-industrial animal production at lowprices, no less! keeping in mind that nearly everythingpeople buy in stores is mass-produced in industrialactories. Do we really believe that contrary to virtuallyevery other product on the market, the majority oanimal products can somehow reach billions o tablesrom tens o billions o animals custom-raised on land,in resh air, with room to roam or even take a ewsteps? How much land would be needed to sustain thisgargantuan population o non-actory armed animals?How much land would people willingly set aside tosupport them?

In Comortably Unaware: Global Depletionand Food Responsibility(Langdon Street Press, 2011),Dr. Richard Oppenlander explains why grass-ed,pastured animal production is a alse solution toactory arming, and why small-scale operations cannotsustainably meet the demands o billions o people

wanting cheap, readily available meat, dairy and eggs.Smaller arms dont alter the amount o resources

required to raise, transport, and slaughter billions oanimals. Currently, 55 percent o our resh water isgiven to animals raised or ood, and 89,000 pounds oexcrement are produced by armed animals every secondin the United States alone, according to Oppenlander.Moreover, what is ashionably called humane armingdoes not meet the behavioral and cognitive needs o, orshow any genuine respect or, the animals trapped inour ood production systems and belittling attitudes.

Anti-actory arming discussions that accuratelydepict aspects o standard industrial animal armingseldom include an equally scrupulous evocation oso-called alternative production practices practicesand attitudes that investigations and Internet blogs haveoten shown to be as callous and cruel as the actoryarming o which they are, in act, extensions.

For example, many backyard chicken-keepingenthusiasts, and touted smaller arms such as

Farm Animal Angst: Decoding the Sustainable and Humane Meat Hysteria


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We thank those people who have contributed to ourwork with recent donations In Loving Memory and inHonor and Appreciation othe ollowing beloved amilymembers and riends:

Please accept my donation in loving memory of

my husband, Jim Wilson. He loved all animals,

especially his two cats, Lady and Ghost. Gail

Wilson

This donation is in honor of the birthday of your

longtime supporter, Julie Beckham. Jean Thaler

I would like to make this donation in recognition

of Sue Coe, who is using her gift as an artist to call

attention to all forms of animal cruelty and injustice.

Barron Naegel

In loving memory of Walter and Nicholas, two

young rescued broiler chickens who found some

comfort and peace in the care of United Poultry

Concerns before dying of their traumas. Mary

Finelli

In honor of Nero, Fredericka, Julie, Nathaniel,Leonard, and Bertha, remembered forever and sadly

missed. Paul Deane

My gift is in honor of All Gods Creatures. Brien

Comerford

Freddaflower Memorial& AppreciationFund

Liqin Cao and Freddaflower

Polyace in Virginia, purchase birds with the samemanuactured genetic disabilities (e.g. predisposition topainul lameness, congestive heart ailure, respiratoryinections, and reproductive tumors) as those used inactory arming. And they typically buy their birdsrom industrial actory-arm hatcheries like Murray

McMurray, in Iowa. Hens purchased by smaller armsor egg-laying purposes are oten debeaked at thehatchery as a routine procedure beore being shippedto buyers. Egg-type rooster chicks are so discountedby these hatcheries that, in addition to being trashed atbirth, theyre used as packing material called packers in shipments o emale chicks to buyers.

hese are just some examples I can cite to counterhumane arming antasies. he reality is that thecruelest, most brutal and atrocious industrial armingconditions and practices have become the standard bywhich so-called humane treatment o armed animals

and satisaction o their basic behavioral needsare being measured. he term humane as appliedto armed animals is a true example o OrwellianDoublespeak.

I being progressive in the 1990s meant choosinga vegetarian-vegan diet or ethical and environmental

reasons, those reasons have not been trumped byany evidence avoring an animal-based diet. On thecontrary, there is every good reason to support thegrowing provision o delicious, nourishing, ethicallysustainable vegan oods. Even on the Perdue-dominatedVirginia Eastern Shore where I live, vegan ood productsare increasing, not decreasing, in the supermarket. Solets not be too quick to say vegan evolution is dead. I itis, our own extinction may be closer than we think.

Karen Davis


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By Roberta KalechofskyMicah Publications, Inc. 2012www.micahbooks.com

INTRODUCTION to the New

Edition by Karen Davis, PhD,President of United PoultryConcerns

Ari, who is nine yearsold, has a secret hesaraid to tell anyone.

He doesnt even understand it very well himsel yet.Its a eeling inside o him, a secret misery. He livesin the Negev desert, in Israel, with his parents whoare staunch environmentalists. hey participate in theGreen movement to save the earth the land, air, water,lowers, trees and wild creatures rom pollution anddestruction. One o their big projects is preventing ahuge radio station rom being built in the path o themigration o millions o birds storks, pelicans, eagles,kestrels, and raptors in lights so spectacular that peoplerom all over the world come to see them.

Ari shares his parents love or the wild birds somuch that he decides to createA Big Book o Birdsor hisschool project. But it isnt just the wild birds that inspirehim. Ari has a pet hen, a chicken he loves called k k,

who is named or the contented clucking sounds shemakes that endear her to him and his amily. And thenthere are those other birds the ones hes seen that haunthim like a dirty secret in the desert and ester like a sorein his spirit. Tese are the chickens and geese who arecaged in warehouse barns without sunlight or resh air,or their esh and eggs. Te eyes o these birds expressmisery and madness.

Ari seeks to understand the bafing mystery othe dierent classes o birds the birds o the air theenvironmentalists care about, his aectionate pet hen k

k, and the tormented hens and geese in the cages thatno one seems to care about at all. His mother, Ima, whois usually open to her sons inquiries, disappoints himthis time. She evades his questions, just as Joseph thechicken caretaker does, causing Ari to puzzle unhappily,but more and more thoughtully, over why his parentselt so strongly about the birds o the air and did notseem to care at all about the chickens in the cages. Hewonders why his parents are so passionate about other

ethical and environmental concerns, but indierent,even hostile, to this one.

Tough Ari eels anxious and lonely with histhoughts, his quandary relates to another secret that hebroods over. Ari does not like meat. He does not want to

eat the meat that everyone else enjoys, takes or grantedand insists is necessary or health and strength.

He is bullied at school or throwing away hischicken sandwiches; hes bedeviled by his Grandma Elliewho taunts him and buys him steak against his will.She is not bothered by the esh o a once living creatureskewered on her dinner plate, but watching Ari wash thedead body the meat beore he will eat it makes hersick.

Ari is alone with his eelings, but in his quest orunderstanding, he discovers that not all grownups are thesame, and that even those in positions o authority andaccomplishment have secrets both hidden and revealedthat are not unlike the secret underground water in thedesert that was once an ocean with the power still toappear in surprising orms that reresh and make lieourish.

A Boy, A Chicken & the Lion o Judah is the storyo nine-year-old Aris quest or moral sense and sel-determination in a amily, in a community, that bothencourages and discourages his project o becoming his

own person. Biblically, he is situated in a region o theearth where revelations have taken place, and he knowsthat reedom and redemption were rst pronouncedhere. Ari lives at a time our time when the ate othe earth and all o its inhabitants are aected as neverbeore by human activity and human attitudes. Even aspeople claim to care deeply about our planet and thenecessity o protecting species, we lock up billions oinnocent birds and other creatures in tombs o livingdeath that torture them and desecrate the environment,merely to indulge our appetites. While many might wish

to believe that ceasing this merciless cruelty to animalshas nothing to do with saving the earth, let alone ourown souls, Aris experience oers a dierent, morechallenging insight.---------------------A Boy, A Chicken & Te Lion o Judah: How Ari Becamea Vegetarian is available rom United Poultry Concerns.$10 includes shipping. o order online go towww.upc-online.org/merchandise.

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Vegan Recipe Corner

Instead o decorating Easter eggs, create Easter SugarCookies. Make sugar cookies in egg-shaped ovals,

and have the kids help decorate them in spring colors.Instead o hiding eggs, break the rosted cookies intothirds as puzzle parts, and have the kids assemble thecookie puzzles.

Sugar Cookies

1 cup our cup sugar teaspoon baking soda teaspoon salt

cup oil 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 1 tablespoon maple syrup Egg replacer for one egg

Mix dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, mix wetingredients well and stir into dry ingredients. Formdough into a ball (it should stick together). Separateinto balls and atten cookies on a cutting board orroll out to a thin dough. Use a knie to shape theminto egg-shaped ovals. Place on an ungreased cookie

sheet, and bake at 375 degrees or seven minutes. Letcookies cool on a rack beore decorating.

Buttercream Frosting

16-ounce package of powdered sugar 6 tablespoons vegan margarine, softened 3 tablespoons soymilk or other nondairy alternative 1 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/8 teaspoon salt Food coloring, commercial or natural

m Beet juice or cherry juice from canned goodsmakes pink or red

m Blueberry juice makes lavender or purplem Turmeric powder (a spice) makes yellow or gold

m

Bottled liquid chlorophyl makes greenIn a medium bowl, add powdered sugar. (Using aour siter to add it in will eliminate chunks). Addrest o ingredients. Using an electric mixer at medium-low speed, beat all ingredients until creamy. Addmore soymilk a teaspoon at a time until you achieveyour desired consistence. Separate rosting into smallbowls. In each, add a tiny bit o coloring and mixwell. Add more coloring or darker hues.

UPC thanks Janelle Davidson or sharing this delicious

recipe with us.

Celebrate Easter Humanely with a New Easter Tradition

Cookies & Photos by Liqin Cao


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Hatching Good Lessons:Altenatives To SchoolHatching PojectsBy United Poultry Concerns

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International Respect for Chickens Day May 4, 2012

Please do an ACTION for Chickens in May!

INTERNATIONAL RESPECT FOR CHICKENS DAY,

MAY 4 is an annual project launched by United PoultryConcerns in 2005 to celebrate chickens throughout theworld and protest the bleakness of their lives in farmingoperations. The entire month of May is InternationalRespect for Chickens Month!

Please do an ACTION for chickens on or around May 4.Ideas include leaeting on a busy street corner, holding anofce party or classroom celebration, writing a letter to theeditor, doing a radio call-in, tabling at your local church,

school or shopping mall, hosting a vegan open house, orsimply talking to family, friends or strangers about theplight and delight of chickens and how people can helpthem.

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Thank you for making every day Respect for Chickens Day!

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