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This video showed up on one of the AR news lists and I think it’s phenomenal. Send it to everyone who believes that purchasing free-range animal products is ethical; if anything will make them see otherwise, this will. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMF5ZW2QvYg On backyard bird forums, Freecycle lists, Craig’s List, anywhere you can! Below is a statement put forth by the Eastern Shore Sanctuary in conjunction with Animal Place, Chicken Run Rescue, Farm Sanctuary, Sunny Skies Bird and Animal Sanctuary, and United Poultry Concerns. In it we list the reasons why people should fight this . . . → Read More: PLEASE DISSEMINATE WIDELY ABOUT BACKYARD BIRDS!!! This blog has been rooster-heavy for some time, but there is a reason for that. In the past couple of months, we have taken in almost 40 roosters. In addition, some of the young chickens whom we’ve taken in have — you guessed it — turned out to be roosters. We love our . . . → Read More: Roosters in Need ***** PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!!! ******* Three months ago, 21 roosters were seized by the Page County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia as part of their bust of an illegal cockfighting operation. Finally, due to very hard work on the part of deputies, public attorneys, and other county personnel, they are now able to be released. . . . → Read More: URGENT!!! CALL TO ALL FARMED ANIMAL SANCTUARIES! Homes Needed Desperately for Roosters Seized in Cockfighting Ring in Virginia Get your comments heard! Go to http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/09/backyard-chickens and tell the world why backyard birding must be undertaken, if at all, only with extreme care and caution. . . . → Read More: THIS JUST IN: On Point with Tom Ashbrook An apartment in Brooklyn was Coco’s second home. Her first home was a live poultry market where she was kept in a cage, her eggs collected and sold. A young man living in Brooklyn purchased her and took her home to the apartment he shares with his mother, and there she lived quite happily. . . . → Read More: Coco Comes Home Suddenly, roosters are everywhere in the news, or so it seems. If you believe what you read, they are the biggest threat to peace and quiet since rocket grenades and jackhammers. Because of that, here at the sanctuary, we’ve seen a big increase in the number of folks wanting to get rid of their . . . → Read More: Rooster Rant Everybody knows by now, we hope, that most antibiotics are fed to farmed animals, that the antibiotics excreted by those animals end up in our water (not to mention the meat, eggs, and milk consumed by non-vegans), and that this is the primary reason for the emergence of antibiotic-resistant “super-bugs.” Now there’s a new . . . → Read More: Onions, Cabbage… & Antibiotics? A few fun facts about the environmental impact of Delmarva’s poultry industry, from this 1999 Washington Post article: Poultry’s Price: The Cost to the Bay * Perdue, the country’s second-largest chicken producer, trucks millions of gallons of waste a year from its Delaware slaughterhouses into Maryland, where the loads are injected into fields. * . . . → Read More: The Price of Poultry |
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The Matrix and the War on Christmas
Science fiction is a vastly underrated genre. For almost 200 years now (if you consider Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to have been the first modern science fiction novel), it’s been on the cutting edge of the technological changes that drive society — not just making up stories about such innovations, but extrapolating them to their . . . → Read More: The Matrix and the War on Christmas