EVENTS JULY-AUGUST, 2008

JULY

July 19-21. Taking Action for Animals 2008 Conference. Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington Virginia. An opportunity to reach and meet hundreds of animal advocates who share a vision for a better world. For information: http://www.takingactionforanimals.org.

AUGUST

August 12-13. The Minds of Animals: Conceptions from the Humanities, Sciences, and Popular Culture. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. UPC President Karen Davis will present “Birds are More Evolved Than Previously Believed: Prospects and Implications for Chickens and Other Birds Used in Food Production.” For information contact Professor Robert W. Mitchell at robert.mitchell@EKU.EDU. Visit: http://www.psychology.eku.edu/MindsofAnimalsConference08.html.
  
August 14-18. Washington, DC. Animal Rights 2008 National Conference. Hilton Mark Center, Alexandria, Virginia. 100 speakers from 60+ animal protection groups. Newcomers and visitors welcome! For information, call 800.632.8688. Visit: http://www.ARConference.org.

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JULY 13-19, 2009

Minding Animals Conference, presented by The Animals and Society (Australia) Study Group & The University of Newcastle, Australia. Conference will be held at Newcastle Civic Precinct, 290 King Street. Prominent advocates and scholars. UPC President Karen Davis will lead a workshop on “Environmental Ethics and Animal Advocacy” and present a paper in the Protecting the Animals Seminar Series on “Procrustean Solutions versus Empathic Anthropomorphism in Our Relationship with Other Animal Species.” For information: http://www.mindinganimals.com. Email: mindinganimals@pco.com.au.

• 7/25/08: Harvest Hills Animal Shelter Chicken BBQ Sat July 26 - Please protest!

• 7/13/08: Canandaigua Academy Plans to Resume Classroom Chicken Killing

• 7/13/08: Canned Bird Hunt in Sag Harbor, Long Island, NY

• 7/09/08: High School Curriculum to Resume Chicken Slaughter?

• 7/08/08: CONNECTICUT YANKEES SAY, "Get the hens out of the cages!"

• 5/12/08: amNew York Publicizes Veggie Pride Parade Sunday May 18, 2008

• 2/28/08: We are at the End of the Road for Animal Fighting in Virginia

• 11/30/07: United Poultry Concerns, Animals’ Angels “Talk Turkey” in Today’s Des Moines Register. Action Alert: Please Urge Sara Lee to Protect Turkeys in Frigid Weather

• 8/16/07: Contact the Rabbinical Council of America About Kapparot Using Chickens

• 7/31/07: Protest Orthodox Union Event

• 6/08/07: AMAZON.COM SUPPORTS COCKFIGHTING Please Protest!

• 4/26/07:UPC Celebrates International Respect for Chickens Day at the White House & Takoma Park, Md, May 4 & 5, 2007 – Please Join Us!

• 4/11/07: UPC President Karen Davis Will Speak at Maine Animal Coalition Food Festival

• 4/04/07: Do a Good Deed for Chickens for International Respect for Chickens Day May 4

• 2/26/07: Chickens Sadistically Abused at Kansas State University Basketball Game

• 2/22/07: Urge MORNINGSTAR FARMS to Stop Using Eggs

• 12/04/06: San Diego Meeting Dec 6 to Ban Foie Gras: Help is Needed!

• 11/22/06: Turkey article in Minneapolis Star-Tribune - letters needed

• 11/16/06: New Yorker Article on Turkeys Cites United Poultry Concerns

• 9/29/06: MAKE A PHONE CALL AGAINST CHICKEN SACRIFICE IN LA

• 9/29/06: Jewish chicken-killing ritual "Kapparot" is "illegal, inhumane and unnecessary. It is animal cruelty."

• 9/29/06: THIS SUNDAY ACTION ALERT – LAST DAY OF THE ANNUAL WEEKLONG CHICKEN SACRIFICE

• 9/27/06: Action Alert - Annual Weeklong Chicken Sacrifice

• 9/13/06: Action Alert – Please Protest Cruelty to a Chicken on Survivor

• 8/17/06: (NC) Wildlife/bird sanctuary serving chicken

• 7/19/06: Letters Needed for chickens

• 6/08/06: Nevada Spca Fundraiser

• 6/05/06: SHUT DOWN FILTHY LIVE POULTRY MARKETS!!

• 5/15/06: Shipment of Baby Chicks: Oppose Senate Bill 2395

• 4/24/06: International Respect for Chickens Day May 4th

• 4/11/06: Rapid City Journal (SD) Covers United Poultry Concerns Protest Against Cruel Treatment of Chickens

• 3/07/06: Urge Reptile Gardens to Drop Chicken Basketball and Tic Tac Toe Games

• 2/17/06: Volunteer(s) Urgently Needed to Videotape "Chicken Drop" in Ridgeland, Wisconsin

• 1/06/06: Rescued Quails Need Homes

• 11/11/05: Avian Influenza: Action Alert

• 10/24/05: Help 270 Brooklyn Chickens Rescued From Ritual Slaughter

• 9/28/05: Chat with a Cockamaniac
  
  
• 8/19/05: Contra Costa Times: "Groups save chickens, offer them for adoption"
  

• 8/11/05: Rabbits Renamed "Poultry" by the USDA: Your Help is Urgently Needed
  
  
• 8/11/05: Future Trends in Animal Agriculture Symposium Program
  
  
• 8/03/05: Protest Carl’s Jr. Ad that Denigrates Chickens
  
  
• 6/27/05: Sierra Club Touts Turning Slaughterhouse Chicken Feathers Into Plastic: "The Perfect Fix" to help the Poultry Industry Get MORE RICH
  
  
• 6/09/05: UPC Alert: Thank Wild Oats for Adopting a Cage-Free Policy for Hens
  
  
• 5/31/05: Tyson Chicken Torture: UPC Letter and Action Alert: Please Write!
  
  
• 5/19/05: Urge District Attorney to Prosecute Chicken Torturers at Camp Evergreen
  
  
• 5/11/05: "[UPC] Activists Cry Fowl in Takoma Park" in TAKOMA PARK GAZETTE
  
  
• 5/09/05: Let HSBC Bank know that you find their current ad offensive.
  
  
• 4/21/05: Attention Washington DC Area Residents & Others
  
  
• 3/18/05: LETTERS OF SUPPORT NEEDED ON SB 662
  
  
• 3/03/05: New Investigation Exposes Appalling Cruelty at Ohio’s Largest "Animal Care Certified" Egg Farm"
  
  
• 2/28/05: Ask AARP to Stop Advertising Cruel, Demeaning Ostrich Races
  
  
• 2/01/05: UPC Sends You a Great Letter-to-the-Editor Opportunity
  
  
• 1/31/05: UPC Brings You the Following Three Action Alerts
  
  
• 1/24/05: NY School Duck Hatching Project---Letters Needed
  
  
• 1/17/05: URGENT UPDATE: Monstrous Cruelty at a KFC-Supplier Slaughterhouse Your Help Needed!
  
  
• 1/11/05: Why is Viva!USA Down on Pier 1 Imports?
  
  
• 12/14/04: YOUR HELP REQUESTED
  
  
• 12/10/04: Urge the University of California To Enact an Anti-Cruelty Policy
  Student Slaughtered a Chicken in an Art Class
  
  
• 12/01/04:Urge University of Delaware President to Stop Nutritional Deprivation Experiments On Chicks and Ducklings
  
  
• 10/27/04: Christian Science Monitor Looks at the Search for “Guilt-Free” Food
  
  
• 10/15/04: Urge USDA to Regulate Care & Use of Birds, Mice, and Rats
  
  
• 8/31/04: Why UPC Supports SB 1520 and Urges Everyone Else to Support the Bill
  
  
• 8/30/04: Urge CA Governor Schwarzenegger to Sign SB 1520 into Law!
  
  
• 8/23/04: UPC Action Alert and Fundraiser
  
  
• 8/10/04: UPC Brings You Three Alerts
  
  
• 8/07/04: Urge Prosecutor to Charge Pilgrim’s Pride Co. and Workers with Animal Cruelty. Urge Pilgrim’s Pride to Implement Changes
  
  
• 7/22/04: Urge Congress to Include Poultry Under the Federal Humane Slaughter Act
  
  
• 7/20/04: UPC eNews
  
  
• 7/17/04: Please take a quick second to thank WJLA!
  
  
• 7/16/04: “Chicken Soup” Book Authors Need to Hear From Us
  
  
• 6/28/04: AVMA Responds Falsely to New York Times Ad
  
  
• 6/27/04: UPC President and AVAR Veterinary Consultant Publish Replies to Veterinarian Who Calls Wood Chipper a Humane Death for Thousands of Chickens. Letters and Action Alerts Follow.
  
  
• 6/24/04: DawnWatch: Parenting Magazine offers encouragement when kids decide to go veggie
  
  
• 6/15/04: URGENT ACTION ALERT ON CALIFORNIA SB 1520
  
  
• 6/09/04: Chickens and Other Sanctuary Animals Desperately Need New Homes
  
  
• 5/28/04: Austrian Parliament Votes Unanimously To Ban Battery Cages!
  

• 5/14/04: Please Urge a Full Investigation of Bird Abuse Case
  
  
• 4/27/04: Help Ban Force Feeding of Ducks in California
  
  
• 4/27/04: Letter to Ban Foie Gras in California!
  
  
• 4/16/04: Help Ban Foie Gras in California!
  
  
• 3/15/04: The Pig Who Sang To the Moon Gets a Great Review in The Atlantic Monthly
  
  
• 03/03/04: Foie Gras Production Under Attack in California, New York
  
  
• 2/2/04: Veterinary Magazines Cite United Poultry Concerns Leadership on Wood-Chipper Probe into the Role of AVMA Animal Welfare Committee Member
  
  
• 1/23/04: Harper's Alert
  
  
• 1/16/04: URGE PROSECUTION OF FEDERALCOCK-FIGHTING CASE
  
  
• 1/10/04: Protest Humane Society Serving Animal Products at Fundraiser
  
  
• 12/11/03: Thank Howard Stern for Sticking Up for Chickens!
  
  
• 12/08/03: Front page of today's LA Times: A Killing Floor Chronicle
  
  
• 11/19/03: Protest to the AVMA Against Gregg Cutler, DVM
  
  
• 11/13/03: United Poultry Concerns Urges the NHSPCA to Serve Compassionate Meals Instead of Dead Chickens and Fish at Its November 15 Fundraiser
  
  
• 11/11/03: Live chickens to be tortured in Spanish blood fiesta
  
  
• 11/07/03: Protest to Dairy Queen – Again
  
  
• 11/07/03: Urge the New Hampshire SPCA NOT to Serve Dead Animals
  
  
• 11/05/03: Urge The People's Champions Not to Harass Animals
  
  
• 10/21/03: DUCK FARM SUES ANIMAL ACTIVISTS
  
  
• 10/20/03: URGENT: DON'T LET COCKFIGHTERS DETER CONGRESS FROM FUNDING ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL
  ANIMAL FIGHTING LAW!
  
  
• 10/07/03: Washington Post Article on New USDA Poultry Categories
  
  
• 9/09/03: Urgent Action Alert: Sadistic Cruelty Alleged at a Tyson Slaughterhouse
  
  
• 9/09/03: Protest the new Dairy Queen ads showing basketball players throwing chickens around like basketballs
  
  
• 9/04/03: Men in Bulloch County Georgia Charged in Sadistic Videotaped Chicken Killings Letters to the Editor Urgently Needed
  
  
• 9/04/03: Vote for Sugar for Sanctuary Animal of the Year
  
  
• 8/22/03: OohMahNee Sanctuary Has Rescued Buckeye Hens for Adoption Responsible Caregivers Sought
  
  
• 8/13/03: Urge Trader Joe’s to Refuse to Sell Eggs from Battery-Caged Hens
  
  
• 8/13/03: MTV “Road Rules” Executive Producers Need To Hear From Us
  
  
• 724/03: Buckeye Chickens Need Your Help!
  
  
• 7/24/03: AVMA Protest Report
  
  
• 6/25/03: United Poultry Concerns (UPC) Condemns Fox Broadcasting for Promoting Bird Abuse for Ratings, People are Urged to Protest
  
  
  
• 6/16/03: United Poultry Concerns, Eastern Shore Chicken Sanctuary Will Protest Delmarva Festival of Death
  
  
• 6/06/03: New Jersey Proposes Cruel “Humane Standards” for Farmed Animals
  
  
• 6/03/03: United Poultry Concerns Urges the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) to oppose the forced molting of laying birds. Veterinarians and others are encouraged to write to the AVMA.6/03/03
  
  
• 5/30/03: Urge that Three New Jersey Men Charged with Bludgeoning Birds to Death at the Popcorn Park Zoo Be Prosecuted for Cruelty to Animals
  
  
• 4/30/03: Letters for Chickens are Needed
  “Killing Them Softly,” The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Column One, Stephanie Simon, April 29, 2003
  
  
• 4/16/03: Thirty Thousand Hens Were Fed to Wood-Chipping Machines Urge Deputy District Attorney to File Cruelty Charges Against Everyone Responsible
  
  
• 4/04/03: United Poultry Concerns Report & Action Alert Exotic Newcastle Disease (END) and the Mass Killing of Birds
  
  
• 4/03/03: Urge Prosecution of Tyson Chicken Slaughterhouse Workers
  
  
• 3/19/03: Tell the USDA to Stop Reimbursing Cockfighters with U.S. Tax Dollars
  
  
• 3/10/03: Please Write a Letter Against Cockfighting
  
  
• 3/07/03: Chickens Bought By Marines To Detect Poisonous Chemicals Died in Kuwait Use of Chickens Suspended: Urge President Bush Not to Resume Their Use
  
  
• 3/06/03: Poultry Company Resumes Starvation of Hens
  
  
3/03/03: Letters Needed Immediately Regarding Two Cases of Cruelty to Birds



• 2/27/03: Cockfighting Hurts More Than Just Fighting Birds
  
  
• 2/23/03: Chickens to Be Used by U.S. Military in Iraq What You Can Do to Protest
  
  
• 2/13/03: Tell President Bush to Treat Pardoned Turkeys Better
  
  
• 2/10/03: Urge Baking Companies to Include Vegan Alternatives to Eggs in Their
  Package Instructions and Recipes
  
  
• 1/2/2003: Protest Chicken Abuse on NBC's "Tonight Show."
  
  
• 12/3/2002: Urge That Livestock Abuse Charges Be Pressed Against Iowa Turkey Beaters
  
  
• 11/22/2002: Fort Worth Star-Telegram Article Disparages Turkeys
  
  
• 11/21/2002: New Hampshire SPCA Supports Cruelty to Farmed & Ocean Animals
  
  
• 11/11/2002: "An Animal's Place," "....Mindful Meat Eating"
  
  
• 10/29/2002: Action Alert - Protest to Orbitz-Again!
  
  
• 10/7/2002: Protest Wisconsin Teacher's Hatcheting of a Chicken in the Schoolyard
  
  
• 8/13/2002: Please write to the National Chicken Council Today!
  
  
• 8/2/2002: Action Alert - Tell Orbitz to Pull Vicious Chicken Cartoon Ad Immediately
  
  
• 6/27/2002: Please Urge AVMA to Change Position on Forced Molting
  
  
• 6/24/2002: Please Urge Casino to Stop Forcing Hens To Pay Tic-Tac-Toe
  
  
• 5/23/2002: The Pawtucket Times: Poultry slaughter sparks outcry in Puerto Rico (external link) [Voice your opinion on this story]
  
  
• 4/23/2002: Letter to Living on Earth Re: Show on Germany Battery Cage Ban
  
  
• 4/12/2002: Please Write a Letter for the Cypress Hens Now!
  
  
• 4/9/2002: Tell UEP To Practice What They Preach:Stop Starving Hens!
  
  
• W2002 PP: Cloned Chickens, Facially Disfigured Chicks, & Blinded Hens
  
  
• 3/12/2002: UPC Donations Needed For Cypress Farms Hens Rescue
  
  
• 3/6/2002: Protest "Send a Chick to Afghanis-Scam" Updated 3/27
  
  
• 3/4/2002: AFLAC TV Commercial Degrades Ducks
  
  
• 2/13/2002: UPC Internet Campaign Gets Carl's Jr. to Drop Lewd Commercial
  
  
• Winter 2001 PP: Urge the ASPCA to Enforce the Law Regarding "Kapparot" Chickens
  
  
• 11/5/2001: Burger King Toy Promotes Cruelty Towards Animals
  
  
• 10/11/2001: Force Feeding of Ducks and Geese-Contact NY Attorney General
  
  
• 10/11/2001: Support Anti-Cockfighting Amendment
  
  
• 9/6/2001: Protest the Use of Live Hens in Casino Video Game
  
  
• 8/1/2001: RSPCA approved Liberty Barnlaid Eggs a Sham
  
  
• 7/20/2001: Senate Ag Bill: School Lunch and Forced Molting
  
  
• 5/31/2001: Please Urge Prosecution of Sexual Abuser and Killer of Hen
  
  
• 4/19/2001: Children's Book Celebrates Chicken Killing as Boyish Mischief
  
  
• 4/4/2001: Birds, Rats, and Mice Need Your Help ASAP!
  
  
• 3/28/2001: UK Chicken Rescue Centre Needs Our Support
  
  
• Spring 2001: Tell United Egg Producers They Need to do More to Help Hens
  
  
• 2/20/2001: The Dallas Children's Zoo - What To Do?
  
  
• 1/29/2001: Live Chicks on Comedy Central's TV Funhouse
  
  
• 1/10/2001: Tyson Chickens Victimized by Winter Storms
  
  
• 2000-01 Winter PP: Stop Production, Distribution & Sale of Cruel, Obscene Rubber Chicken Toy
  
  
• 11/28/2000: "A Southern Season" Selling Foie Gras
  
  
• 11/8/2000: Tell Food Companies to Treat Chickens Better
  
  
• 11/3/2000: Stop Boston Museum of Science Chick Hatchery Exhibit
  
  
• 10/30/2000: Imagine Foods, Inc. Selling Chicken Broth
  
  
• Help Stop Forced Molting
  • California Bill To Ban Forced Molting: Update
  • Today Show Promoting The Incredible IN-EDIBLE Egg
  • AVMA Betrays Veterinarian's Oath
  • UPC Campaign to Ban Starvation of Hens
• Martha Stewart Promoting Foie Gras
• Urge the Boy Scouts to implement a formal written Code of Behavior
• 12/10/99: SICK OF PERDUE? CALL 1-800-473-7383
• Ongoing Campaigns: Guinea Fowl Drop, Chicken Flying Contest, Ostrich Races
  Chicken Flying Contest Canceled!!
• Protest Sutton Place Gourmet Selling of Emu
• Protest WholeFoods Selling of Ostrich and Emu

  Previous UPC Action Alerts