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PLEASE DISSEMINATE WIDELY ABOUT BACKYARD BIRDS!!!

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 growing . . . → Read More: PLEASE DISSEMINATE WIDELY ABOUT BACKYARD BIRDS!!!

Coco Comes Home

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. Until . . . → Read More: Coco Comes Home

Interspecies Connections

About two and a half months ago, a cat arrived here who happened to be pregnant. Soon enough nature took her course and we had four kittens. Three have survived almost two months now (Friday August 27 will be their birthday), and it goes without saying that they are remarkably adorable.

However, one thing does . . . → Read More: Interspecies Connections

The Perils of Poultry

Chicken flesh is like “light” filtered cigarettes, not as bad for you as red meat (unfiltered cigarettes), but still very unhealthy. That’s why, in addition to our empathy for the birds, we get so frustrated when people who want to be healthy swear off cow and pig flesh but keep on eating chickens.

As part . . . → Read More: The Perils of Poultry

In Defense of Actual Animals

The New York Times recently endorsed California’s Proposition 2,calling for all other states to enact similar legislation. The question of animal welfare legislation has become increasingly vexed within the animal advocacy movement. The seemingly intractable dispute between proponents and opponents of measures intended to increase the well-being of farmed animals has left many activists feeling . . . → Read More: In Defense of Actual Animals

Seize the Day

Located in a rural region where the local poultry industry participates in the global economy by killing and cutting up more than a million chickens a day, the Eastern Shore Sanctuary & Education Center is committed to the project of building a movement capable of catalyzing the worldwide changes in agriculture, trade, consumption, and attitudes . . . → Read More: Seize the Day