Tune in to "The Power Hour with Joyce & Dave" at 10:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday April 29 for an interview with Karen Davis about her new book Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs. Listen Live at www.GCNLive.com or www.ThePowerHour.com. "The Power Hour with Joyce & Dave" is a 3-hour syndicated radio broadcast Monday through Friday, 7-10 a.m. CST. Call-in to live broadcast: 1-800-259-9231. International Callers: 1-651-289-4333, ext.125.

Later this week Karen talks about issues raised in Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggson "Wordy Birds," a weekly discussion about books and ideas hosted by Liz Humes, on Friday May 1, at Noon ET, on WRIR 97.3 FM in Richmond, VA. The interview was conducted face to face in the WRIR studio on April 21. To listen outside the Richmond metro area, the show is streamed live on www.wrir.org.

Please join Karen Davis and her hosts for these two important radio shows. Learn why Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs is a Must Read for people who care about chickens and the plight of chickens and the health and environmental problems arising out of the poultry & egg industries.

UPC is pleased to announce that Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs was selected as the Institute for Critical Animal Studies' Book of the Year for books published in 2008-2009 on issues pertaining to animals and society and promoting animal advocacy, rights, and protection. The selection was announced at the 7th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies at Yale University on April 25, 2009 (www.criticalanimalstudies.org). We are deeply honored by this award and sincerely thank the conference committee for choosing Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs as this year's Book of the Year.