Upcoming Events:

• July 15-19:
  
  
  
• July 23-26:
  
  
  
• September 2nd: The Social Life of Chickens: A Visual Lecture & Book Signing with Karen Davis in San Diego
  
  
• October 30th:
  

  Latest Alerts:

• 06/22/10: PBS News Hour Treats Chicken Abuse as Cute Advertising
  
  
• 06/09/10: TIME For Fake Chicken
  
  
• 06/03/10: Protest “Hammered Chicken” Contest in Baltimore Maryland, June 4
  
  
• 05/26/10: Chickens Viciously Attacked in North Pole, Alaska
  
  
• 04/15/10: Chickens Cruelly Spray-Painted at Carnegie Mellon University
  
  
• 03/17/10: Call for Entries: CHICKEN RUN RESCUE PHOTO CONTEST!
  
  
• 03/10/10: Rescued King Pigeons Make Great Pets!
  
  
• 02/12/10: Pennsylvania Pigeon Shoots Need Protest Letters
  
  
• 11/25/09: Coalition of Animal Sanctuaries Craft Policy Statement on Urban Chicken-Keeping

• 11/18/09: Children Slaughtered Chickens in Idaho Community School
  
  
• 08/18/09: UPC Tells Little Rhody Egg Farms Owner: Stop Starving Your Hens!
  
  
• 08/05/09: “Free-Range” Poultry and Eggs: Not All They’re Cracked Up to Be - UPC’s New Brochure is Now Available in Print and Online!
  
  
• 05/06/09: Protest Oprah's Giving Away KFC Chicken Meals (Eating Misery: Contamination and Cruelty are Linked in Chickens Raised for Food)
  
  
• 12/11/08: Inhumane Conditions at LaGranja Live Poultry and Nick's Poultry

  Ongoing Alerts:

• Chicken Abuse by San Francisco’s Live Animal Vendors: An Update (Fall-Winter 2009 Poultry Press)
  
  
• A Wing & A Prayer - The Kapparot Chicken-Swinging Ritual - Please Help! (Updated 17 November 2009)
  
  

  Recent Successful Alerts:

• 03/26/10: Dogwood Initiative Apologizes for Chicken Abuse Episode; Takes “full responsibility” and is “taking steps to ensure the birds are adopted by a humane home”
  
  
• 03/05/09: Investigators See Improvement for Turkeys at Sara Lee Plant
  
  
• 12/5/08: News Release - United Poultry Concerns Campaign to Save Canandaigua Chickens Succeeds!