By Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns*

I Know Just How Incredible Chickens Are: I’ve Spent More Than Thirty Years
Getting to Know Them

“The poultry industry represents chickens as mentally vacuous, eviscerated
organisms. Hens bred for egg production are said to be suited to a cage,
with no
need for personal space or normal foraging and social activity. They are
characterized as aggressors who, notwithstanding their proclaimed passivity
and
affinity for cages, cannot live together without first having a portion of
their
sensitive beaks burned off-otherwise, it is said, they will tear each other
up.
Similarly, the instinct to tend and fuss over her eggs and be a mother has
been
rooted out of these hens (so it is claimed), and the idea of one’s having a
social relationship with such hens is dismissed as silly sentimentalism. .
. .”

Read Karen’s article: I Know Just How Incredible Chickens Are: I’ve Spent
More
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Than Thirty Years Getting to Know Them
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Please do an ACTION for:
International Respect for Chickens Day May 4/Month of May
<http://www.upc-online.org/respect/>

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United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes
the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
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