News Archives 2002
- 12/14/2002: News Release - Turkey and Ostrich Races Cancelled Due to Protests
- 12/11/2002: UPC Letter Dayton Daily News Re: Battery-Caged Hens
- 12/10/2002: News Release - UPC Urges "Blue Square" to Cancel Heartless Turkey Race
- 12/4/2002: New York Times exclusive: Advocates for Animals Turn Attention to Chickens
- 12/3/2002: Action Alert - Urge That Livestock Abuse Charges Be Pressed Against Iowa Turkey Beaters
- Information About Turkeys Compiled from More Than a Meal
- 11/22/2002: Action Alert - Fort Worth Star-Telegram Article Disparages Turkeys
- 11/21/2002: Action Alert - New Hampshire SPCA Supports Cruelty to Farmed & Ocean Animals
- 11/14/2002: News Release - Karen Davis Will Speak at VSDC Annual Thanksgiving Day Dinner
- 11/11/2002: Action Alert - "An Animal's Place," "....Mindful Meat Eating"
- 11/6/2002: News Release - Chickens Win Victories on November 4 & 5, 2002
- 11/5/2002: News Release - Re: Wisconsin Teacher's Hatcheting of a Chicken in the Schoolyard
- 11/4/2002: News Release - United Poultry Concerns Profiled in Egg Industry Magazine, October 2002
- 10/29/2002: Action Alert - Protest to Orbitz-Again!
- 10/28/02: UPC Book Review: Fresh Eggs: An American Fable
- 10/28/02: UPC Letter Re: Article Representing Turkeys Pornographically
- 11/23/2002: San Diego's Annual Turkey-Free Thanksgiving w/Karen Davis
- 10/16/2002: Battery Hens: Egg industry stalked by pressure to give its birds more room
- 11/22/2002: UPC Candlelight Vigil for Turkeys - 7:30-9:00pm
- 9/11/2002: Cockfighting: Arkansas Democrat Gazette editorial on cockfighting
- 10/9/2002: UPC Book Review: My Fine Feathered Friend
- Fall 2002 PoultryPress
Vigil for Chickens, Action Alerts, New Poster, New Video, And More! - Chicken Care: ASPCA's Necessary Care of Chickens
- 10/07/2002: Action Alert - Protest Wisconsin Teacher's Hatcheting of a Chicken in the Schoolyard
- 10/4/2002: News Release - Teacher Brutally Hatchets Helpless Bird to Death Before Young Students
- 10/3/2002: News Release - Chicken Advocate to Speak at Sierra Club's Old MacDonald Conference
- 10/3/2002: United Poultry Concerns Campaign Cited in Forbes Magazine
- Annual Report 2001 - United Poultry Concerns
- Animal Equality(Joan Dunayer Speech at 2002 Austrian AR Conf)
- 9/20/2002: UPC Letter in Oct 2002 Harper's Magazine
- 9/20/2002: UPC Evaluation of Future Trends In Animal Agriculture Symposium
- 9/12/2002: News Release - 3 Groups Urge Positive Chicken Stories During "September: National Chicken Month"
- 11/30/2002: UPC 12th Annual Feast - 2-6pm
- 10/16-17/2002: UPC 12th Annual Vigil for Chickens: Protest the National Chicken Council
- UPDATE: Foie Gras Removed From Fundraiser's Menu!
- Maribeth Abrams' Book Review of "More Than a Meal" by Karen Davis
- 8/27/2002: AVMA - Open Letter from UPC to The American Veterinary Medical Association
- Spring 2002: AVMA - Take A Closer Look at the AVMA's Animal Welfare Policies
- 8/26/2002: Action Alert - Fundraiser for Needy Children Promotes Animal Cruelty
- 8/20/2002: Cockfighting Issue on Oklahoma Ballot (external link)
- Jim Masons' Book Review of "More Than a Meal" by Karen Davis
- Norm Phelps' Book Review of "More Than a Meal" by Karen Davis
- UPC 4th Annual Forum: Promoting Veganism - August 16-17, 2003
- 8/13/2002: Action Alert - Please write to the National Chicken Council Today!
- 8/9/2002: Open letter to Orbitz from United Poultry Concerns
- 8/8/2002: Action Alert - Tell Orbitz to Pull Vicious Chicken Cartoon Ad Immediately
- 8/6/2002: News Release - Cruel Chicken Stunt Planned for Wednesday August 7 Cancelled Following Protest
- 9/22/2002: CompassionFest 2002 in Cincinnati: Please Join Us!
- 7/30/2002: Egg Price Increases Preferred Over Caged Chickens (external link)
- 7/26/2002:News Release - Killing Chickens to Fund Spay & Neutering Awareness Luncheon Has Been Canceled
- 7/25/2002: News Release - Frank Perdue Now Available as a Voodoo Doll
- Pictures of Karen Davis at AR2002 Receiving her Award for the U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame
- 7/20/2002: Cockfighting: Letter & Article: Cockfight Violence: A Clash of Culture
- 7/15/2002: Group seeks improvement of chicken-farm conditions (external link)
- 7/12/2002: Activists To Target Battery Hen Giants (external link)
- 7/12/2002: News Release - United Poultry Concerns is an "Animal Rights Extremist" Organization
- Stories & Poems - From Poultry in Heaven To Poultry on Earth
- 6/27/2002: Action Alert - Please Urge AVMA to Change Position on Forced Molting
- 6/24/2002: Action Alert - Please Urge Casino to Stop Forcing Hens To Pay Tic-Tac-Toe
- Stories & Poems - Chicken Talk
- Stories & Poems - With Love for Fryer Tuck
- 5/27/2002: LA Times Commentary: There's a Bone to Pick With Meat Eaters
- 6/9/2002: Letter Boston Globe: Liberty Rights For Animals
- Summer 2002 PoultryPress
Cypress Hens Rescue, Ban Forced Molting! Eternal Treblinka and More! - 5/31/2002: News Release - Guinea Fowl Drop is Cruel and Must Be Stopped
- 5/15/2002: Letter: Comparing animal slaughter to Holocaust victims is fair
- 5/23/2002: The Pawtucket Times: Poultry slaughter sparks outcry in Puerto Rico (external link)
- 5/20/2002: Hartford Courant Article on Yale Chicken Conference
- The Dignity, Beauty, and Abuse of Chickens: As Symbols and in Reality
- 5/23/2002: News Release - Featherless Chicken is Cruel, Obscene, and Absurd
- 5/21/2002: Scientists create pre-plucked chicken (external link)
- 5/20/2002: Buckeye Egg Owner Retires, Returns To German Farm (external link)
- 5/22/2002: News Release - Farm Animal Well-Being Task Group Chucked by USDA
- 5/18/2002: Cockfighting: Tulsa World Anti Cockfighting Editorial
- May2002: Campaigns Against Cockfighting Update
- 5/3/2002: Litchfield County Times: A Cage is No Place for a Hen
- 5/3/2002: UPC Letter on Buckeye Egg Farm in Columbus Dispatch
- 5/3/2002: News Release - Lewd Chicken "Nuggets" Ad Draws Fire from Georgia Resident
- 5/3/2002: UPC Comments to USDA Re: standards for organic poultry
- 5/1/2002: Poultry Slaughter - The Need for Legislation and Elimination of Electrical Immobilization
- 5/18-19/2002: UPC President Karen Davis To Speak at Yale Chicken Conference
- Poultry Sentience and Intelligence
- 4/22/2002: The Colmbus Dispatch:Egg farm set to lose permits (external link)
- 4/23/2002: The Colmbus Dispatch:Buckeye Egg rotten to its corporate core (external link)
- 4/23/2002: Letter to Living on Earth Re: Show on Germany's Battery Cage Ban
- 4/22/2002: Undercover Campaigners Expose Factory Chicken Suffering
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- 4/9/2002: UPC Letter in WSJ: Chickens With Brains
- 4/12/2002: Action Alert - Please Write a Letter for the Cypress Hens Now!
- 4/9/2002: Action Alert - Tell UEP To Practice What They Preach:Stop Starving Hens!
- Winter-Spring 2002 PoultryPress
Forum Report, Genetic Engineering, Food Revolution, And More! - 4/11/2002: Sandoval County in New Mexico has just banned cockfighting.
- 3/20/2002: A Fighting Chance: The federal farm bill could turn Louisiana's cockfighters into felons. (external link)
- 4/5/2002: Cockfighting: Who, Truly, are the Ruthless Aggressive Killers?
- 3/27/2002: Philadelphia Weekly: The Most Dangerous Game (external link)
- Revised 2002: Chickens are Foragers, Not Fighters
- Revised 2002: The Plight of Birds in the Poultry and Egg Industry
- 3/11/2001: UPC Book Review of Eternal Treblinka:Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
- 3/27/2002: UPC Update re: "Send a Chick to Afghanis-Scam"
- 4/1/2002: UPC Leafletting at the White House Easter Egg Roll
- 3/21/2002: Russian newspaper discusses U.S. poultry ban (external link)
- 3/22/2002: News Release - Pasco County Hens Find Sanctuary at United Poultry Concerns
- 3/12/2002: UPC Donations Needed For Cypress Farms Hens Rescue
- 3/11/2002: CITIZEN-TIMES.com-Chickens: Simply put, to know them is to love them (external link)
- 3/7/2002: St. Petersburg Times: Company's bankruptcy starves chickens at abandoned egg farm (external link)
- 3/6/2002: Action Alert - Protest "Send a Chick to Afghanis-Scam"
- 3/4/2002: Action Alert - AFLAC TV Commercial Degrades Ducks
- 3/2/2002: News Release - Rural Hall, NC:Cruelty Complaint Lodged Against TRACTOR SUPPLY 200
- 11/10/2001: Letter From Former Dallas Zoo Employee Fired For Saving Chicks
- 3/10/2002: UPC Meat-Out KFC Demonstration in Springfield, VA
- 2/19/2002: 10tv.com:Could the egg industry's practices be making you sick? (external link)
- 2/18/2002: UPC Letter Re:Suit Over Chicken Farms
- 2/7/2002: Chicago Tribune Article on Forced Molting Bill (external link)
- 2/8/2002: Animal Liberation Victoria successfully rescues 15 battery hen orphans from egg factory near Melbourne
- 2/10/2002: Legislative Alert: Washington State HB2619-Battery Hen House Inspections
- 2/8/2002: Action Alert - United Poultry Concerns News Advisory on Carl's Jr.
- 1/27/2002: LA Tmes:Letters to Editor: Chickens Are More Than 'Nugget'
- 2/7/2002: Seattle Times: Henhouse-inspection bill ruffles feathers (external link)
- 1/24/2002: The Dominion Post: Give hens some room to move (external link)
- Winter 2001 PoultryPress
New Book! Action Alerts, Kokun and Potpo, And More! - 1/14/2002: Comments to EPA on Dry Lots for Ducks Submitted By UPC
- Cloned Chickens, Facially Disfigured Chicks, & Blinded Hens
- 1/18/2002: Daily Times: Poultry industry not ready for cloning
- 1/17/2002: UPC Letter Re: Takoma Park Farmer's Market Addition of Animal Products
- 1/15/2002: UPC Letter Re: "Cockfighting is an enigma"
- 1/17/2002: Scripps Howard article: Contaminated poultry in USDA pilot program (external link)
- 1/17/2002: News Release - UPC, Californians Urge Carl's Jr. to Drop Chicken "Nuggets" Ad
- KFC Demonstration February 3rd in Frederick, MD
- 1/10/2002: Action Alert - Offensive Carl's Jr Ad Using A Live Chicken
- 1/10/2002: UPC Letter Re: Offensive Carl's Jr Ad Using A Live Chicken
- Turkey death suspect has record of bird abuse (external link)
- 12/14/2001: UPC Letter Re: WSJ Journal Article on the "Nanny Culture"
- 1/8/2002: News Release - Activists Urge Top Penalty for Boulder Cnty Xmas Day Turkey Killer