San Francisco radio hosts plan to chase chickens around the studio on Barack Obama’s Inauguration Day, thereby terrifying the birds and making a mockery of the day.
According to the KITS LIVE 105 (San Francisco) website,
Tuesday Morning: Tony (dressed in a chicken suit) will be chasing and trying to catch two chickens in the LIVE 105 [...]
Entries from January 2009
On-Air Animal Abuse Planned for Inauguration Day
January 18th, 2009 · 14 Comments · Action Alert
Tags: chickens·culture·intersections·media
The Price of Poultry
January 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Issues
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.
* Some scientists believe the [...]
Tags: delmarva·environment·factory farming·water pollution
Sanctuary Founder Calls for Delmarva Diversification
January 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Issues, News
In a New Year’s Day letter to the editor published in the Daily Times of Salisbury (Md), Eastern Shore Sanctuary co-founder pattrice jones calls for economic diversification of the Delmarva peninsula, which is currently dominated (and despoiled) by the poultry industry:
We need a diversified economy with an agriculture sector divided between production of healthy food [...]
Tags: agriculture·agriculture reform·delmarva·economy·environment