Please Don’t Eat the Birds
So, I’m off to the annual Animal Rights National Conference and, unlike last year, I’m not even going to try to blog while I’m there. Maybe I’ll post an on-the-spot report but probably not.
Instead here are three documents I’ll be distributing while there:
All Out to the Grocery Stores and Gas Stations!
Strategic Action for Animals in the Context of the Food-Feed-Fuel Crisis
pdf
In Defense of Actual Animals
Moving Past the Welfare-Abolition Impasse
pdf
Strategic Analysis of Animal Welfare Legislation
A Guide for the Perplexed
pdf
Feel free to comment but know that I won’t be able to engage in dialogue until after the conference.
And, here’s a sneak peak at the new Eastern Shore Sanctuary poster we’ll be taking to the conference:
Sweet, eh? The child in the picture is Imani, who I have known since before he was born and who kindly consented for this snapshot, taken when he and his mother (a board member at the sanctuary) spent a few days at the sanctuary last summer. The chick grew up to be a giant-sized “broiler” rooster, who is luckily still with us — despite the tendency of birds of his size to suffer heat stroke or heart attacks in the summer — but is already starting to show the signs of premature aging common to chickens of his kind who are lucky enough to live longer than a year. The accelerated growth that allows “growers” to send birds to slaughter at only six or eight weeks of age persists throughout life: These birds reach sexual maturity a couple of months earlier than normal and start to look positively elderly at about 18 months. Sad. Don’t eat them.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
I LOVE the poster!
August 28th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
[...] to concentrate our limited resources on direct animal care, we came roaring back at AR2008 with three new reports intended to strengthen the capacity of the animal liberation movement to create substantial change. [...]