|
October 4, 2000
Mr. Bruce Eldredge, President
The Hubbard Museum of the American West
PO Box 40
Ruidoso Downs, NM 88346
Dear Mr. Eldredge:
I am writing to you on behalf of our 10,000 members nationwide to ask
you to cancel The Hubbard Museum's sponsorship of the chicken roping
scheduled for October 15, 2000. Our investigation shows that the
chicken roping consists of lassoing and binding both the head and the
feet of hens and roosters for entertainment. This is moronic and
inhumane. United Poultry Concerns is asking the Museum to remove the
chicken roping from the program immediately. Roping chickens is not
part of a cowboy's or anyone else's heritage, and if it were, it
would not be justified.
The chicken roping will be an animal rights publicity campaign if it
is not cancelled. We have already requested Joe Rhodes of Joe's Boot
Shop to drop the shop's sponsorship of the event. However, the Museum
has the authority to act intelligently and responsibly over and above
Mr. Rhodes. I am asking you to do this now. Please cancel the chicken
roping.
I look forward to a response from you as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Karen Davis, PhD
President
Related Links:
United Poultry Concerns. October 4, 2000
United Poultry Concerns, Inc.
PO Box 150
Machipongo, VA 23405-0150
757-678-7875
FAX: 757-678-5070
www.upc-online.org
(UPC Letter to Hubbard Museum Re: Chicken Roping)
|