Most folks know that farm stores sell baby chicks, especially come springtime. The Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center, of course, adamantly opposes this practice if for no other reason than it condones the sale of a living creature. All creatures are equally and inherently entitled to live their own lives and not be bred, . . . → Read More: Action Alert!
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This coming Tuesday, the fabulous Toronto-based radio show “Animal Voices” will interview Eastern Shore Sanctuary worker Miriam Jones about rehabilitating cockfighting roosters. The show will air between 11 AM and NOON, eastern time, on Tuesday, November 10, 2009. If none of your local radio stations will air the show, you can check it out . . . → Read More: Listen to Animal Voices on Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 11 AM to NOON ET 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!!! Two weeks and one day into the rehabilitation process, two of the new roosters are FREE! Free of the “training” cages they live in during the day out in the yards while they get used to being around other birds whom they are not forced to fight. Free of the crates in which they sleep . . . → Read More: Rehabiliating Roosters are Doing GREAT! Hey! Lots going on for us in the computer world, so I wanted to bring you all up to speed. So to speak. We have two main news items to share. First of all, we are on Facebook! Search for us as Eastern Shore Sanctuary, and become our friend! Second of all, we have registered . . . → Read More: Administrative Goings-On at Eastern Shore Sanctuary! 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 guys. . . . → Read More: Roosters in Need It’s been almost a week now and the cacophony is KINDA SORTA calming down. Yes, I’m referring to the crowing of the 23 roosters from Farm Sanctuary in combination with the crowing of the roosters who were already here, all of whom seem to set each other off. No wonder these guys are crowing . . . → Read More: New Roosters and Hens Settling in GREAT! According to this newspaper article, a couple in Massachusetts beat up a man who had asked them to quit shouting obscenities at the Kentucky Fried Chicken worker who was slow in preparing their order. This makes a lot of sense to me (pattrice). If you’re willing to rip the wings off a bird just so . . . → Read More: KFC Beat-Down ***** 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. Their . . . → Read More: URGENT!!! CALL TO ALL FARMED ANIMAL SANCTUARIES! Homes Needed Desperately for Roosters Seized in Cockfighting Ring in Virginia |
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Response to Natalie Angier
At the Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center, we are quite familiar with the phenomenon Natalie Angier exemplifies so perfectly in her essay “Sorry, Vegans: Brussels Sprouts Like to Live, Too.” We call it psychic self-defense.
And so, while I will refute Angier’s primary argument against veganism later in this response, I believe it is . . . → Read More: Response to Natalie Angier