Proverbs 12:10

"A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast:
but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."


New Yorker writer Michael Specter

On his first visit to a chicken farm:

"I was almost knocked to the ground by the overpowering smell
of feces and ammonia. My eyes burned and so did my lungs, and I could neither see nor breathe….There must have been thirty thousand chickens sitting silently on the floor in front of me. They didn’t move, didn’t cluck. They were almost like statues of chickens, living in nearly total darkness, and they would spend every minute of their six-week lives that way."

—Michael Specter, New Yorker, April 14, 2003.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

United Poultry Concerns

United Poultry Concerns has a very informative website. Please check it out:
 United Poultry Concerns Website

Battery Cage Hens

Photo by: Mercy for Animals, Weaver Brothers Egg Farm in Versailles, Ohio



Former Battery Cage Hens

Photo: Susan Rayfield
From rotting in cages to roosting in branches, former battery hens enjoy life at United Poultry Concerns. Despite thousands of years of domestication, chickens are essentially the wild jungle fowl of their ancestry, with the same cravings for lush soil, trees, and activities suited to the tropical forests they originated in. May is International Respect for Chickens Month. Let people know how beautiful and “green» chickens truly are.
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