Poultry Press Magazine [Summer 2011]

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United Poultry ConcernsP.O. Box 150

Machipongo, VA 23405-0150

(757) 678-7875FAX: (757) 678-5070Visit Our Web Site:

www.upc-online.org

Summer 2011 Volume 21, Number 2

Poultry PresPromoting the compassionate and respectful treatment of do

Celebrating 21 years of dedicated activism for domestic fow

UPC# 11656

Goli the guinea fowl joined our sanctuary in 2010. He lives in a snug enclosure withour golden rooster Reggie and two friendly beige colored hens who were rescued froma cock ghting ring named Maisie and Melandra. At night this little group of friendsroosts together on a tree branch under the leaves. Goli has many interesting voicesranging from an ear-piercing machine-gun racket to the sweetest quiet singing in theevening, when he and his companions are settled down for the night.

Photo: Davida G. Breier


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http://eugeneveg.org/pd /Interviews/Interview-Karen_Davis.pd

Q. How did veganism become part o your li e?

A. I grew up in a meat-eating household in Pennsylvania. Although I have always loved animals and hated animalcruelty, I ate animal products so unthinkingly that, whilearguing with my ather about hunting at the dinner table,it would be over a plate o dead animals who were invisibleto me as beings who had once been alive and had died ahorrible death. In the 1970s I read an essay by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy called The First Step, in which hedescribed his visits to Moscow slaughterhouses and arguedthat the rst step toward a nonviolent li e was to get theanimal bloodshed out o your system. I stopped eatingmeat. Yet even a ter that, I was oblivious to the sourceso dairy and eggs. I didnt think cow or chicken whileconsuming those products. In the 1980s, Peter Singersbook Animal Liberation, and The Cookbook for People Who Love Animals , published by Gentle World in Florida,opened my eyes to the animal su ering embodied in eggsand dairy products. One day, I sat in my car at an Italianrestaurant in College Park, Maryland, bawling my eyesout because I could no longer have pizza with extra (orany!) cheese. Then I went inside, ate rigatoni, and never

looked back.

Q. What advice would you give to a vegan advocate wanting to become more o an activist?

A. I would advise this person to get involved with one ormore animal rights organizations and start acting! I think its important to expand ones personal dietary ethic to apublic outreach e ort. The very word advocate meanstaking a public stand and making a case or what one caresabout and wants to accomplish. United Poultry Concerns

produces a range o handout brochures, posters, videosand other material or an activist to educate her/himsel and others. Understandably, many people are shy aboutcon ronting the public. Learning to talk com ortably with people may take practice. There are many ways toadvocate or a vegan diet and animal rights, and many channels o communication. One thing to keep in mind,however, is that people love Personal Stories. By ramingyour advocacy message in the orm o a Personal Story o how you became aware o animal su ering, and what led

you to change, you engagepeoples interest withoutthreatening them. Youshow people by examplethat its possible andliberating to change oneshabits into something newand better.

Q. What do you think makes veganism hard orpeople?

A. People regard meat all animal products, but especially meat as the mostsubstantial ood. The smell o roasted fesh is irresistiblemost people. Throughout history, people around the worldhave celebrated victories, holidays, weddings, and otherspecial occasions over a large roasted animal or several laanimals on the table. Everything else bread, condimentsvegetables surrounds the meat whether in a sandwich oon the dinner table. People raised on meat are a raid i thstop eating it, they will be emotionally and nutritionally deprived. They ear they will not eel ull anymore,psychologically or physically.

This is a legitimate ear since or most o us, whetheralone or with amily and riends, eating is one o themost important ways, i notthe most important way torelax, relieve stress, and experience pure pleasure. To becon ronted with the thought o having to turn the purepleasure o eating and sharing meals into a tension- llednerve-wracking experience, adding to the stress o li einstead o reducing it, daunts many people. They dont want to have to explain to their riends why theyre notordering lobster anymore, or why theyre asking the waitei the pasta has eggs in it. They dont want to turn the

dinner table into a ood ght with their amily. Theseconcerns make it hard or people to want to become vegaeven those who genuinely care about animals and wantbetter health. Media advertising associates happiness, sexappeal, un, amily and riends with animal-based mealand dining enjoyment. TV ads say that children dont likevegetables and will only eat them hidden in processedmeat and dairy products. And though ood is everywherein our society, grabbing a tasty vegan meal at a ast- oodrestaurant or nding good vegan options at a better

Eugene Veg Education Network (EVEN, based in Eugene, Oregon)2011 Interview with UPC President Karen Davis, PhD


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restaurant is still a challenge. All o these things make ithard or people to go vegan.

Q. What, in your opinion, is the most misunderstoodidea about veganism?

A. That vegan ood is not hearty. That eating vegan is notan emotionally satis ying experience. That vegan ood isfavorless and lacking in calcium and protein. That youcant grow big and strong and be athletic and have un on just lettuce. That its just vegetables. Most people haveno idea how delicious well-prepared vegan ood is, becausetheyve never had any.

Q. What one thing rom your thinking in childhood do you wish you could change?

A. I wish that in childhood I had made the connectionbetween meat and animals, but I didnt. As I child, I didntthink about animals in relation to eating.

Q. I you were to mentor a younger person today, what guidance might you o er?

A. I would encourage the younger person to eat a wholesome vegan diet and not gorge on potato chips andvegan junk ood. I would encourage a person still livingat home with parents who may not (yet) be vegan to be

rm in their commitment and to educate themselvesabout vegan nutrition and share the in ormation with theirparents. I would encourage the person to o er to cook the

amily dinner once a week and to do everything possible tomake being vegan an a rmative, pleasurable and ul llingexperience. I would encourage the person to be rm but

riendly about their decision to be vegan, and never orget what animals go through in order to become ood thatnobody needs.

Q. Do you have a avorite vegan meal or ood?

A. Although I grew up eating meat and liking it, whenI decided to become vegetarian in the 1970s, I switchedeasily to pasta dishes. Pasta to this day is my avorite ood heaps o linguini with stir- ry mushrooms, spinach,broccoli forets and olives in marinara sauce or toastedsesame oil & tamari sauce. Dining out, I love Indian ood,Italian, and Chinese. Some people say its di cult to bevegan while traveling, but there is almost always one ormore o these restaurants nearby. Even i you happen to be

at a restaurant without a single vegan menu option, youcan still put together a vegan dinner based on what is therCreativity and courage are important to being a success uvegan.

Q. What one thing makes veganism worthwhile or you?

A. I became vegan because I did not want animals to suand die or my appetite. Keeping aith with animals by respecting them and not eating them is the single most worthwhile decision I have ever made. For me, being vegis the opposite o renunciation and doing without. Its atotally positive, deeply satis ying diet and dietary decisio

Q. Any opinion on the uture o veganism in todays world?

A. There are so many orces at play, its hard to predict h well a vegan diet and li estyle will are in a world with aexpanding human population already close to 7 billionpeople, a world in which analysts say that the number oanimals raised or ood is likely to double rom 50 billioto 100 billion land animals, by 2050. This estimate doesneven include the megatons o sh people are eating andthat are increasingly being actory- armed in lthy, dise

lled aquaculture tanks. One thing is clear: there is no way that people can consume the number o animals andamounts o animal products that are being consumedin todays world, and yet somehow, magically, eliminate

actory arming. This is a pipedream. Even ree-rangeand other animal arming practices and conditions thatare represented as alternatives to industrial animal armininvolve mass production o animals, breeding, shipping,slaughtering, culling, and mutilation. My opinion is thatthe uture o veganism in the world depends upon goingvegan, purchasing vegan ood and other vegan products,building the vegan economy, and getting others to joinyou.

And there has been progress over the last twenty years,thanks to dedicated vegan-animal rights activists aroundthe world. Even i we dont succeed in changing the worlbeing vegan and an animal rights advocate is the rightthing to do.

To learn more about EVEN, the Eugene Veg EducationNetwork, visit http://eugeneveg.org .


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For its part, the Humane Society agreed to give up on a push to ban cages entirely . . .and would agree not to conduct undercover investigations at large egg arms unless it was

aware o especially egregious practices. The New York Times, July 7, 2011

O n July 7, 2011, The Humane Society o the United States announced an agreement with United Egg Producers, the eggindustry trade group, to re rain rom urther state-basedcampaigns in avor o ederal legislation that wouldcreate national wel are standards or the nations 280million egg-laying hens. Proposed ederal regulations

would: Replace barren battery cages over the next 18 years

with enriched battery cages with slightly more spaceor the hens (ideally in some uture antasy up to one

square oot or each caged hen) along with tiny perchesand dustbathing areas; Prohibit orced molting o hensby ood deprivation to manipulate egg production; Settoxic atmospheric ammonia level standards; Requireegg cartons to in orm shoppers o the housing system in

which the hens who laid the eggs in those cartons lived,

e.g. eggs rom caged hens, eggs rom cage- ree hens,or eggs rom ree-range hens; Mandate euthanasiao spent hens (whatever that means in the context o agribusiness); Prohibit the sale o eggs and egg productsthat dont meet these standards. Many animal advocates ear that any e ort to re ormagribusiness practices will placate the public withillusions o humane treatment o armed animalshaving no basis in the reality o actual productionpractices. They ear that advocacy or a compassionatevegan diet is undermined by campaigns that seek tomitigate some o the cruelest abuses o an inherently animal abusing industry. They ear that whatever wel arere orms are enacted into law will not be en orcedregardless, and that all or most e orts to re orm animalagribusiness are a betrayal o the animal victims andamount to deals with the devil. All o these ears arereasonable.

An additional reasonable ear in this particular case isthat, should a ederal law be enacted, it will be a diluteversion o the initial proposals, and the battery cage,albeit enriched with tiny urniture including nestboxthat are actually just plastic strips, will be established.Once the U.S. egg industry invests a projected $4billion dollars into converting to enriched, so-calledcolony cages, and those cages with their millions o tiny urnishings have been installed, that system will b

rmly in place or the remainder o the 21st century, aprobably ar beyond.

Acceptance o cages or laying hens, howevereuphemistically enriched, is a HUGE STEPBACKWARD, in our opinion. Un ortunately, victories

or organizations do not necessarily translate into victoor animals, and this is how we view the current deal.

We dissent rom the view that HSUSs agreement withUnited Egg Producers is a step in the right direction.

We will continue to educate our members and the publito understand that the only true way to animal wel are to animals faring well lies in eliminating the demand

or animal products in avor o vegan ood. We hope will join us.

For in ormation about battery-caged hens includingenriched cages and Proposition 2, see

www.upc-online.org/battery_hens/ . For in ormationabout orced molting and our 13 year campaign toeliminate the practice o starving hens or pro t, see

www.upc-online.org/molting/ . For delicious veganrecipes, go to www.upc-online.org/recipes/ .

Agreement Raises Hopes & Fears for Egg-Laying Hens: Our PerspectPhoto of "Colony" Cage by Jayme Fraser / The Oreg


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Activists End Live Bird Sales at San Franciscos Farmers MarRaymond Young Poultry and Bull eathers Quail no longer welcome

For two years, San Francisco activists AndrewZollman and Alex Felsinger, ounders o LGBT Compassion, have been leading

vigorous investigations and protests o live poultry salesat San Franciscos Heart o the City Farmers Market.Now, theyve won! As o May 27, 2011, Heart o theCity, the company hired by San Francisco to run theMarket, banned live bird vendors rom San FranciscosUN Plaza, also called the Civic Center, where ornearly two decades these vendors have been selling livechickens, quails and other birds, tied up in grocery bags

or customers to take home and torture and butcher.Frustrated by the re usal o both Heart o the

City and the San Francisco District Attorneys o ce totake action against the vendors or their atrocious animalcruelty and health code violations, LGBT Compassion

led a lawsuit with the Cali ornia Superior Court againstHeart o the City and Raymond YoungPoultry, in January 2011,

or the physical assaults andcivil rights violations theactivists personally experienced

at the hands o the vendorsduring their peace ul protestdemonstrations. The lawsuitgot the attention o Heart o theCity, and suddenly the ban wasannounced.

In their May 2 pressrelease about their astonishingvictory, LGBT Compassion statedthat Raymond Young Poultry hadbeen selling over 1,000 actory-

armed birds twice weekly, andestimated that Bull eathers Quailhad bred and sold at least 350 birdseach week at the market. The ban will prevent the sale o over 100,000live birds or ood each year, the pressrelease said.

In 2009, United Poultry Concerns joined orces with LGBT Compassion by

posting requent action alertsabout the campaign and co-developing an in ormationbrochure, Whats wrong with live chickens at armers markets? This brochure, inEnglish, was translated intoChinese by UPC Vice President,Liqin Cao.

The San Francisco activists are now ocusingtheir attention on the Richmond, CA armers market,

which they say is the last known Bay Area armersmarket to continue to allow live bird sales. Thoughthe Richmond poultry vendor is currently underinvestigation by Contra Costa Animal Services or

animal cruelty, the Richmond City Managers o ce haso ar re used to en orce the law, but the activists aremaking progress, notwithstanding. The Richmond City Manager and live bird vendor are really reaked outabout our protesting there, but the police understand

our rights, Zollman told UPC,noting that Animal Services seemsvery concerned and HealthServices has been responsive to ourcomplaints.

Meanwhile, Raymond YoungPoultry has taken to selling birdsillegally out o a pickup truck onthe streets near UN Plaza. LGBTCompassion is documenting theirlaw-breaking and presenting it to thepolice and to the news media, whichhave covered the activists campaignextensively.

More good news. Havingousted the live bird sellers, the

San Francisco armers marketsrst new vendor is a Hummusvendor! Says Zollman rejoicingly,Theyre replacing animal cruelty and lth with vegan ood! For morin ormation and updates about thiscampaign and other e orts againstlive poultry markets, please visit

www.upc-online.org/livemarkets/.


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On April 14, 2011, the Florida Departmento Education denied the ormalPetition for Agency Action iled in March by United

Poultry Concerns and Humane Educators ReachingOut. Prepared by animal law attorney Adam P. Karp,the Petition requested the Department o Educationto develop and en orce speci ic rules implementingFloridas humane education laws.

Our Petition was prompted by a highly publicized cruelty episode at Hawthorne High Schoolin Alachua County, Florida near Gainesville, on April15, 2009. On that day, two Hawthorne students, RobertGordon and Patrick Dougan, bashed a live chicken tothe ground or un, videotaped the episode, and postedit on the Internet. The police report that ollowedincluded a description o the horri c killings that weremeanwhile being conducted inside the school, underthe direction o Future Farmers o America teacher

Allen Shaw, who students said had his back turned while they were decapitating live birds, popping theirnecks, and exercising their cruelty. Shaw reportedly

was teaching his students the neck popping (cervicaldislocation) killing technique, and everyone wasthrowing the su ering, mutilated chickens into buckets

where they struggled until they died. Although Dougan and Gordon were arrested

and charged with elony animal cruelty, and UPCpresident Karen Davis was set to testi y at their trial, thecharges were subsequently dropped by the Florida State

Attorneys O ce.Therea ter, UPC engaged attorney Adam P. Karp

to prepare and submit the79-pagePetition for Agency Action(or Rulemaking ),

which was denied by theFlorida Department o Education, claiming thesereasons:

1) The PetitionersUPC and HERO have NoStanding. No Standingis a requently invokedlegal blockage in animalcruelty cases whereby petitioners are said to lack

substantial interest inthe rule requested and tohave ailed to demonstratethat they themselveshave su ered an injury o the type the Petition isdesigned to protect.

2) Current FloridaLaws Prohibit AnimalCruelty. However, in thiscase and countless others, these laws did not punish theperpetrators or animal cruelty, nor does this law prevethe Department o Education rom developing its ownlegal mandates and penalties to ensure that animalcruelty does not take place in Floridas public schools. As Adam Karp wrote ollowing theCommissioners Ordero Rejection: Whatthe Commissionerignores is that

even without theHawthorne Highvideo o cruelty, theentire classroomexercise violatesstate law prohibitingdissection/vivisectionin the schools. The

Florida Department of Education Denies UPCs Petition to Develop aImplement Humane Education Rules for Floridas Public Schools

Attorney Adam Karp at our Rally in Orlando, March 31Susan Hargreaves of HERO at our

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Poultry Press is published quarterly by United Poultry Concerns, Inc.,a national nonprofit 501(c)(3)organization incorporated in the State of Maryland.Federal I.D.: 52-1705678e ditor :Karen Davisg raPhiC d esign :Franklin Wade

United PoUltry ConCerns , i nC .

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K aren d avis , PhD,President-Director

l iqin C aoVice President-Director

d ebbie a leKna Secretary Treasurer-Director

w ebsite a dministrator /

g raPhiC d esigner :

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Carol J. Adams , AuthorHolly Cheever , DVMMary Britton Clouse ,Chicken Run Rescue

Sean Day , Attorney Clare Druce , Chickens LibSheila Schwartz , PhD,

Humane EducationCommittee o NYC

Veda Stram , www.All-Creatures.orgKim Sturla , Animal Place

In Memoriam : Henry Spira , Animal Rights International

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department also claimed that the chicken abuse at Hawthorne High School happenedtwo years earlier and was there ore too remote in time or review, which is ridiculousand basically boils down to: they didnt want to bother.

At this writing, United Poultry Concerns has led Freedom o In ormation Act requests with the Alachua County Superintendent o Public Schools and thePrincipal o Hawthorne High School or all records relating to courses past, present

and uture in which chickens or other animals were, are, or will be intentionally injured or killed by students and/or their teachers including any or all documentsauthorizing a broiler chicken class or similar animal-killing/injury class in 2012. Therecords we receive will determine our uture course o action.

Although the Florida Department o Education rejected ourPetition, they now know that many people care and are watching. We thank our supporters or thehundreds o emails and hand-written letters youve already sent to the department

and related agencies about this matter. We encourage you to continue to express youropposition to students being instructed to injure and kill animals in Floridas publicschools. Let the Florida Department o Education know how disappointed you are intheir re usal to establish clear regulations implementing Floridas humane educationlaws, which the department has the authority to do. Ask what exactly they intend todo to insure that Florida students and their teachers are being taught to respectand protect chickens and other animals instead o hurting and killing animals andexercising their violent and abusive tendencies behind a mask o agriculture. Requesta written response to your concerns. Contact:

GERARD ROBINSONCommissioner o Department o EducationO ce o the CommissionerTurlington Bldg., Suite 1514325 West Gaines StreetTallahassee, FL 32399Phone: 850-245-0505Fax: 850-245-9667Email: [email protected]

For more in ormation about our Florida campaign, please see the Spring-

Summer issue o Poultry Press or go to www.upc-online.org/classroom/ .

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We thank those people who have contributed to our work with recent donationsIn Loving Memory and inHonor and Appreciation of the ollowing beloved amily members and riends:

In memory o Junior Rooster. Although your death was mysterious, Im thank ul that it seems to have beenpeace ul. Rest in peace, dear riend. Jennifer Lasky Russell

For Joey, my Little Rooster, my Little Man. . . . My rainbow o earthly colors and the golden sunshine o my eye. It has been so hard losing you . . . Michele Nash

In memory o a cal I call Govinda. He managed toescape rom the slaughterhouse, but they tracked himdown and riddled him with bullets. Govinda lay on theground in agony. He tried to li t his leg up a ew times,but then he lay still. They tied his body to a rope andtied the other end to a truck. Then they dragged himaway. I only I could have saved him. Aleksei Green

My donation is in memory o Linny and Maxine, thetwo hens who were brutally strangled to death by threehigh school students at El Monte Elementary School in

Concord, CA. Madelaine Burgess In loving memory o Fred and Gabby. F. Goldman

In honor o Nero, Fredericka, Julie, Nathaniel,Leonard, and Bertha, remembered orever and orevermissed. Paul Deane

My gi t is in honor o All Gods Creatures. BrienComerford

In memory o ourdear little rooster,Mr. Frizzle, whodied o a respiratory in ection that hadplagued him o andon ever since weadopted him veyears ago. In the

past we treated him success ully with antibiotics, buthis time our precious bird did not pull through butdied quietly during the night o April 3rd. Mr. Frizzl was a cheer ul riend to everyone who knew him an

his spirit will live on at United Poultry Concerns in hloving sanctuary home. UPC

Katie--My Favorite Memories of Her

On Monday, May 30, a very special chicken diedHer name was Katie. She was brought to Sa e Havethree years ago by a young couple who had purchaseher at a live bird market. They wanted Katie to be

their pet but their landlord objected, so they asked usi we would take her in. Right away we noticed howthe other chickens liked being near Katie, and how so ten tried to protect them.

One day we had to give medicine to Katie and abantam rooster named Burdock. Katie didnt like beiheld to have the medicine put in her mouth, but shelet us do it. But when we tried to treat Burdock, hesquawked loudly and few away every time we got clFinally he few up against a ence, trapped. At thatmoment Katie ran over to Burdock and put her body

our way. Clearly she was trying to de end her riendSome o my other memories are o Katie and tw

partridges who had escaped a nearby hunting cluband moved voluntarily into Katies aviary. They werealways shy, but soon they began sleeping on the roossnuggled up to Katie. They also ran over to Katie whenever they were rightened, burying their smallheads in her eathers or protection.

One day one o these partridges wandered outsid

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the aviary and seemed a raid to reenter because o my presence next to the screen door. Katie walked out o the aviary, approached the partridge, then walked back into the aviary. The little partridge ollowed her back inside.

Katies most surprising behavior happened onea ternoon when I was upset about a personal matter. I

elt a little like crying as I entered the aviary. Katie walked toward me, looked into my eyes, then sat

down quietly beside my leg. I elt sure she was tryinto com ort me. We o ten hear the termmother hen, but until that moment, I never knew how caring andprotective a hen can be. All o us at Sa e Haven misour dear Katie very much. Bill Crain

*Bill Crain is co ounder o Sa e Haven Farm Sanctin Poughquag, New York. www.sa ehaven armsanctuary.org

STOCK CONTRIBUTIONSDear Friends,

Several of our members have made financial contributions in the form of stock to UnitedPoultry Concerns through our securities account. We are deeply grateful for these gifts, andanticipate more in the future. There are two obvious benefits in making stock contributions. consider these advantages in making your future gifts to United Poultry Concerns.

D n s ma give as m ch st ck as the want t a n np fit ganizati n with t impinging p n thei estate. By giving this way, they avoid paying a capitalgains tax on their assets, because they are gifting their assets.

The benefits t the n np fit a e bvi s . In giving a gift of stock, you enable thenonprofit of your choice to grow and do more. Its as simple and important as that. Everyon

United Poultry Concerns has a securities account with UBS Investment Center.For information on how you can donate to us this way, please call 877-827-7870, and a

member of the UBS Advisory Team will help you. You may ask to speak directly with RacheTomblin or Earl Singletary.

From United Poultry Concerns and all our Feathered Friends, we thank you for helpingour future!

Sincerely,Karen Davis, Ph.D., President

PLEASE, J oin U s T oday ! We NEED Your Strong and Continuing Financial Support

New Membership $35 2011 Membership Renewal $30Membership includes our quarterly Poultry Press Magazine to keep you in ormed on current issues, andhow you can get involved in many other ways. I you would like to support us by credit card, please go toour website at www.upc-online.org and click on DONATE to make your donation. Its that easy!

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United Poultry Concerns Annual Report for 2010

Federal ID: 52-1705678

A Financial Statement is available upon written request to:

O cer o Consumer A airs, PO Box 1163, Richmond, VA 23218.

United Poultry Concerns is certi ed by IndependentCharities o America to receive donations through theCombined Federal Campaign. Our CFC Agency Code is#11656.

O fcers & Directors - 2010Karen Davis, PhD, President-DirectorLiqin Cao, Vice President-DirectorDebbie Alekna, Secretary Treasurer-Director

Sta - 2010Karen Davis, PhD, PresidentLiqin Cao, Vice PresidentDebbie Alekna, BookkeeperRonnie Steinau, O ce AssistantFranklin Wade, Website Administrator & Graphic DesignerSev Burkhead, Sanctuary Assistant

United Poultry Concerns holds that the treatment o chickens, turkeys, ducks and other domestic owl in the areas

o ood production, science, education, entertainment, andhuman companionship situations has a signi cant e ectupon human, animal, and environmental wel are. We seek to make the public aware o the ways poultry are used, andto promote the compassionate and respect ul treatment o these birds and the bene ts o a vegan diet and li estyle. UPCconducts ull-time educational programs and campaignsthrough our quarterly magazinePoultry Press , our Website at www.UPC-online.org, and our chicken sanctuary inMachipongo, Virginia.

United Poultry Concerns maintains a permanent ull-timeo ce, sanctuary and education center at our headquartersat 12325 Seaside Road, Machipongo, Virginia 23405. Werespond daily to Internet and telephone requests or help with bird-care problems, student projects, alternatives toclassroom chick-hatching projects, and numerous othercommunications on the care, treatment and abuse o domestic owl. We are grate ul to all o our members andsupporters or enabling us to ul l our mission in 2010. Frall o us at United Poultry Concerns, thank you or suppor

Highlights o Our Activities and Accomplishments in2010

Sanctuary Adoptions UPC adopted 23 wonder ul chickens including fve roosters and also one guinea

owl in need o a loving home in 2010. All o our birdswere rescued rom abuse, abandonment or surrender by previous owners directly or through an animal shelter.

International Respect or Chickens Day May 4/Month o May - Celebrating the Li e and Dignity o Chickens & Protesting Their Abuse in Farming Operations

m Ran 100 King Size Bus Posters in Washington DC:Give a Cluck! Go Vegan!

m Held public outreach demonstration & lea leting, WhitHouse, May 1.

m Held public outreach demonstration & lea leting, SanDiego, CA.

m Promoted 2010 Chicken Run Rescue Chicken PhotoContest.

m Distributed UPC chickens literature & posters throughour activist members in o ices, libraries, shoppingcenters & university campuses in the U.S. and Canada.

m Garnered media coverage across the USA!

Further Actions, Investigations & Outreach Campaigns - 2010

m Founded the Alliance toEnd Chickens as Kaporos ,an association o groups andindividuals who seek to replace


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chickens in Kaporos chicken-swinging & slaughteringceremonies with money or other non-animal symbols o atonement. Created the Website www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com.

m Hosted a success ul Rally in Brooklyn, NY to EndChickens as Kaporos, Sept. 12.

m Created Change.org Petition to End Chickens asKaporos.

m Actively supported LGBT Compassions campaign toban live poultry markets in San Francisco. www.upc-online.org/livemarkets.

m Led campaigns to expose andeliminate the chicken slaughterprojects at Concordia HighSchool in Concordia, Kansasand at The Community Schoolin Sun Valley, Idaho. www.upc-online.org/classroom.

m Campaigned success ully to prosecute three juveniles who strangled to death two hens at El MonteElementary School in Concord, CA in November.

m Protested chicken cruelty episode at Carnegie MellonUniversity in Pittsburgh, PA.

m Researched and published indings o chicken abuse atBlack Eagle Farm in Nelson County, VA. (An ongoinginvestigation.)

m Persuaded the Environmental Group, Dogwood

Initiative in Vancouver BC, to apologize publicly ortheir or chicken abuse publicity stunt.

m Protested Hammered Chicken Contest in Baltimore,Maryland.

m Protested AFLAC TV commercial promoting poultry abuse.

New Print Publications & Website Documents - 2010 m Hatching Good Lessons: Alternatives to School Hatching

Projects. www.upc-online.org/hatching. m Chicken-Human Relationships: From Procrustean Genocide

to Empathic Anthropomorphism. Spring Journal, Spring 2010, Vol. 83. www.upc-online.org/thinking/chicken_human_relationships.html.

m Humane Slaughter of Poultry Lawsuit Dismissed www.upc-online.org/slaughter/100222slaughter_lawsuit_dismissed.html.

m Enriched Cages for Egg-Laying Hens in the US and EU. www.upc-online.org/battery_hens/100710enriched_cages.html.

m Organic Standards: What Are They? www.upc-online.org/pp/winter2010/organic_standards.html.

m Chickens at Play DVD Watch: www.vimeo.com/13210456.

Keynote Speaking Engagements, Lectures, Book Signings

& Exhibits - 2010 m Hosted United Poultry

Concerns Ninth AnnualCon erence on the Topic o Expert Discourse and theProblem o the Chicken,Fair ax, VA, Oct. 31.

m Public Interest EnvironmentalLaw Con erence, University o Oregon, Feb. 26.

m Food est, Zias Ca , Towson,MD, April 1.

m New York Public Library Lecture, NYC, May 15. m Third Annual Veggie Pride Parade, NYC, May 16. m Animal Rights National Con erence, Washington DC,

July 15-19. m Taking Action or Animals Con erence, Washington

DC, July 23-26. m Richmond Vegetarian Society Festival, June 19. m The Social Li e o Chickens Lecture, San Diego, CA,

Sept. 2.

m Peter Max Studio Bene it or Alliance To End Chickeas Kaporos, Sept. 30.

m Virginia Association o Science Teachers, Nov. 19-20.

Additional Community Outreach Exhibits & Demos -2010

m World est, Los Angeles, May 15. m National Poultry Improvement Plan 3-Day Street Demo

San Diego, Aug. 31-Sept. 2. m Washington, DC VegFest, Sept. 11. m Provided brochures, video or live bird market demo b

FAUN, NJ, Sept. 18. m Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival, VA, Sept. 25.

m Takoma Park MD Street Festival, Oct. 3. m Thanksgiving Demo & Lea leting or Turkeys, White

House, Nov. 20. m Vegetarian Society o Washington, DC, Thanksgiving

Celebration, Nov. 25.m UPC Annual Thanksgiving Open House, Nov. 27.


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m Farm Animal Sanctuary Exhibit by Sharon Lee Hartat the Tinney Gallery in Nashville, TN includedphotographs o UPC sanctuary birds, Dec. 4, 2010-Jan.1, 2011.

UPC in the News:

PRINT MEDIA (Including Internet Publications) -2010

m Sacramento Bee, March 17. m Portland Maine Press Herald, March 17.

m Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 18. m Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT), March 26. m Altoona Mirror (PA), March 27. m Journal for Critical Animal Studies, April. m Homegrown Happy Valley (PA), April 1. m Voices of Central Pa, April 1. m The Daily Collegian, Penn State University, April 5. m Eastern Shore News (VA), April 24. m Tazewell County Free Press (VA), April 28. m Psychology Today, May 6. m Press of Atlantic City (NJ), May 13. m San Diego Reader, Sept. 2. m Religious News Service, Sept. 8.

m Crown Heights News (Brooklyn NY), Sept. 12. m Brooklyn Courier Life, Sept. 14. m The Jewish Star, Sept. 17. m The Washington Post, Oct. 9. m The Kansas City Star, Oct. 23. m Concordia Blade-Empire (KS), Nov. 15. m TBD.com (Washington, DC), Nov. 18. m Animal People, Nov.-Dec. m PR Newswire: hundreds of press release distributions

including Reuters and Yahoo News!

BROADCAST MEDIA - 2010m Health First Radio, British Columbia, Jan. 19.

m EarthSave Radio with Caryn Hartglass, March 4. m Vegan Radio with Derek Goodwin, March 4. m Rebecca Faris Show, WRIR Radio, Richmond, VA, Ma m Doug Clifford Show, WSKY FM, Gainesville, FL, May m Louie B. Free Show, Youngstown, Ohio, Aug. 24. m San Diego, CA Channel 6 News, Aug. 31. m New York City Channel 12 News, Sept. 12. m Rebecca Faris Show, WRIR Radio, Richmond, VA, Nov m Meet America Public Access with Lorna Moffit, Nov. 3 m Animals Today Radio with Dr. Lori Kirshner, Dec. 12.

Financial Report - 2010

United Poultry Concerns Fiscal Year: January 1 -December 31, 2010

Revenues..$194,506Public Support191,729Expenses..$200,098Programs and Education 170,872Organizational Management 29,226Net Assets/Fund Balance at End o Year.$387,203

United Poultry Concerns grate ully acknowledges thekind assistance o

The Marino FoundationHarold B. Larson Charitable Trust The New York Community Trust Shirley S. She er Trust Estate o Kathryn E. Riedel

Thank You or Your Support!

UPC President,Karen Davis


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Vegan Recipe Corner Nut French Toast

Dear UPC, I am a member and here is one of my favorite recipes for Poultry Press. It appears in my gourmet vegan cookbook Cooking With Compassion.I hope you can use it in your Vegan Recipe Corner. Barbara Bonsignore

Ingredients:

1 cups water1 cups raw cashews or other nuts1 teaspoon tamari or soy sauce2 tablespoons whole wheat pastry four4 to 6 slices wholegrain bread1 teaspoon vanilla, almond or orange extract

Add cinnamon to taste

Directions:

Blend all ingredients except bread and cinnamonin a blender. Dip 4 to 6 slices o wholegrain breadin batter (keep stirring the batter ). Sprinkle withcinnamon. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees on a welloiled cookie sheet until both sides are lightly brown,

approximately 10 minutes per side, turning once.Sprinkle with more cinnamon. Serve with real maplesyrup and/or ruit topping.

Fruit Topping

Ingredients:

3 ripe bananas1 peeled quartered orange (seeds removed)

Juice of one lemon cup raisins cup boiling water

Directions:

Pour boiling water over the raisins and let sit untilplump. Blend all ingredients in the blender until

smooth. Then enjoy!

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