Located in rural Maryland, the Eastern Shore Sanctuary & Education Center provides a haven for chickens and ducks while also working for the liberation of all animals from all forms of exploitation and expropriation. Visit our main website for more information about our work, the birds, and the problems we seek to solve.
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1 tim martin // Sep 9, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Congrats on your move. However, aside from the post card we received, we can’t verify your new address — and your web sites still give the old location. You might want to update this.
2 Brent Hall // Jan 8, 2010 at 11:41 am
Most of your philosophy about animals is well received by myself, my vegan friends, and community members that I’m working with. We’ll be with you on the front lines to shut down all factory farms and industrial agro-business.
But you’ve over-stepped your boundaries by e-mailing an opposition statement to Bangor, Maine’s City Council before contacting any of the proponents in the community who are working hard to make sure our ordinance passes.
Backyard chicken keepers are not the enemy. We are not exploiting the birds for meat, or forcing them to produce eggs. We care about the birds as pets. We want to give them a safe and happy place to live, while providing educational opportunities for our children and community members. We want to know where our food comes from, and the way it was produced. There are a plethora of reasons why chickens (and other farm animals) are important to leading a sustainable and more closed-loop agricultural lifestyle. I am a home gardener, and also work at an organic farm where the animals are treated with respect, and cared for as any home pet would be.
Please stop undermining initiatives in local communities and imposing your own ideologies, and set your sights on the real factory-farm criminals that we can all agree on. If you’d like to talk, feel free to contact me at the e-mail address below.
Respectfully,
Brent Hall
brenton.t.hall@gmail.com
3 Cheyenne Bradley // Jan 30, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Brent,
Even if your chickens are kept and loved like pets, what difference does that treatment make when the end result is the same - namely slaughter and them ending on your plate as meat? Real compassion and love means to let all esntient beings live, to acknowledge their inherent right not to be exploited and their right to live. It is in my view just an excuse to say “but we keep them as pets, we love them”etc , an excuse that serves to cover up the discomfort that the end result is still the same, namely violence and killing and the taking of a live of a sentient being who wants to live.
The abolition of human slavery was once seen as an ideology. The abolition of womens’ opporession was once seen as an ideology. Anything that makes us feel uncomfortable because deep down inside, we know that it is the right thing to do (namely abolition of slavery, opporession, animal exploitation etc), we label “ideology” because we are so resistant to change for the better for all beings.
Cheyenne Bradley
4 bravebird // Jan 31, 2010 at 11:44 am
Brent, sorry for the delayed response; I’ve been neglecting the blog.
The bottom line is that either one does, or does not, see non-human animals as up for grabs to use as we see fit, whether for eggs, meat, feathers, fur, skin, or simply because we like to have them around.
If you do see non-human animals as ethically potential targets for such exploitation, then “keeping chickens for eggs” becomes tenable.
If you do not, then it is not.
It’s as simple as that.
I would also add that at this point, in theory at least, only the government has the ability, through its militia and police forces, to “impose ideology” upon anyone. So far as I knew, contacting city council officials was still within the category of Expressing One’s Opinion as we all have the legal right to do.
Regards,
Miriam
5 bravebird // Jan 31, 2010 at 11:44 am
Cheyenne,
I’ve not see these ideas expressed any better anywhere else- - thanks for posting.
Miriam
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