We can be a place for these birds! We have the land, we have the people-power, and we have the resources to feed and otherwise care for many more pigeons than we are at present. . . . → Read More: Help Us Build a Pigeon Aviary!!!
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In the wake of the BP oil spill comes some of the most shocking footage yet of what goes on inside Department of Agriculture-approved dairy farms, thanks to Mercy for Animals and the undercover footage they took at Conklin Farm in Ohio. I say “shocking” because most of us haven’t seen these things with our . . . → Read More: Conklin Dairy and the 1989 Montreal Massacre: Or, Your Daddy Said I Took It Just a Little Too Far LOOKING FOR FULL TIME ANIMAL CAREGIVER!! APPLY NOW!!!! . . . → Read More: WE ARE SEEKING A FULL TIME ANIMAL CAREGIVER! APPLY NOW! We got this call about a week ago from this woman who wanted to adopt a rooster. Shocking, since NO ONE wants roosters. She wanted to come right out and get him — she has 18 hens and no rooster, she told me — but I told her we need to bring him to her . . . → Read More: Why Animal Rights People Feel the Way We Do (Part 11 Million) 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 Every day on the Delmarva peninsula, more than a million birds scream, scratch and flap as they are shackled to the machinery of death. The center of it all is Salisbury, Maryland — home of the late Frank Perdue, who was the first to apply the industrial model now known as “factory farming” to chickens . . . → Read More: Can You Bear to Watch? |
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What Does it Mean to Respect a Chicken?
May 4 is International Respect for Chickens Day, and since VINE Sanctuary has its roots in the Eastern Shore Chicken Sanctuary, we are naturally very committed to the idea of respect for chickens. We also find the choice of term to be striking: “respect” for chickens, as opposed to humane treatment for chickens, or rights . . . → Read More: What Does it Mean to Respect a Chicken?