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Go Postal for Chickens

By bravebird, on September 15th, 2008

Thank Animal Acres for rescuing these birds by taking a moment to let the postal service know it’s not okay to treat animals like packages. Click the link for the whole story, including pictures of the surviving birds. clipped from animalacres.org Animal Services in Oakland, California took custody of hundreds of one-day old chicks who . . . → Read More: Go Postal for Chickens

Take a Virtual Tour of the Sanctuary

By bravebird, on September 11th, 2008

While our website is under reconstruction, let us direct you to a couple of recent blog posts by visitors to the Eastern Shore Sanctuary. Vengeful vegan Isa Chandra Moskowitz spent some time at the sanctuary early this year, blogging about it here and posting more photos here. Sanctuary volunteer Deb Durant came down to . . . → Read More: Take a Virtual Tour of the Sanctuary

Other Kinds of Bird Cages

By bravebird, on September 6th, 2008

Rats. Cats. Rabbits. Dogs.

Monkeys.

These are the animals we imagine locked up in vivisection labs, subjected to hurtful and often perverse experiments the purpose of which — beyond the satisfaction of abstract curiosity — is often unclear. Cats and rabbits burned by noxious poisons. Rats purposely starved to death. Dogs trapped in cages with . . . → Read More: Other Kinds of Bird Cages

Seize the Day

By bravebird, on August 30th, 2008

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

Smoking Roosters and Other Atrocities

By bravebird, on August 30th, 2008

Many people don’t realize the extent to which chickens are subjected to biomedical research and other forms of vivisection. We’ll be contributing to the upcoming blog Carnival Against Vivisection and we hope that the bloggers among our supporters will too.

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Refreshing Rain

By bravebird, on August 29th, 2008

Light rain refreshes the green weeds outside my window as I write this first post for the new Eastern Shore Sanctuary blog. A feral hen hustles her two chicks under the shelter of a large-leafed plant. Two black-and-white ducks — former foie gras factory inmates — stretch their large wings to catch every drop of . . . → Read More: Refreshing Rain

 
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