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Karen Davis' response to "My Chicken Run" appeared in the August 28,
2000 issue of Time Magazine.
(See http://www.upc-online.org/000807time_chicken_run.html for the
full article).
Re: Joel Stein, "My Chicken Run," August 7, 2000, p. 20
Mr. Stein is to be commended for wearing a chicken costume as a first
step to getting to know chickens a little better. Now I invite him to
visit our chicken sanctuary on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in order
to deepen his vicarious identification with the birds whose dead
wings he still finds appetizing. I invite him to lay his hand on
those very wings while they are still alive, feathered, and flapping,
[* and to look at the faces above them. Next I will take him up the
road and we will stand where he can look directly into the faces of
young chickens on their way to being slaughtered. After that,*] I
will tell him precisely how "buffalo wings" are made-- [*from
scratch, so to speak. If, then, he is still jaunty, I'll know he is
wearing a mask. But*] I wager the next time he's confronted with a
heap of dead wings dressed in sauce, he will take flight.
Sincerely,
Karen Davis, President
United Poultry Concerns, Inc.
[* Note:The bracketed sections were edited out by Time *]
United Poultry Concerns. August 28, 2000
United Poultry Concerns, Inc.
PO Box 150
Machipongo, VA 23405-0150
757-678-7875
FAX: 757-678-5070
www.upc-online.org
(Action Alert - Time Magazine Letters: Getting to Know Chickens )
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