News Archives 2020
Marit de Haan Review of For the Birds 29 December 2020 - fb.com Capturing Fluffy in the Freezing Cold:
“My Love for This Special Creature Who Honored Me by Choosing Our Home” 27 December 2020
Muscovy Ducks Will NOT Be Killed: Activists’ & Residents’ Voices Were Heard! 24 December 2020
UPC Needs Your Support This Holiday Season 21 December 2020
New Podcast: Transforming Ourselves Through Compassion with Judy Carman 19 December 2020
SAVE THESE PEACEFUL DUCKS FROM POINTLESS KILLING! Sign & Share This Petition 17 December 2020
“When Good Vegans Make Bad Neighbors” by Mark Mathew Braunstein 16 December 2020
ANIMAL AGRICULTURE IS IMMORAL: Can We Create a New Normal? 12 December 2020
UPC Winter 2020 Poultry Press – Volume 30, Number 3
11 December 2020 Inside: Animal Agriculture • Miami Bus Stop Posters • Replacing Animals •
Slaughterhouse Workers • Gerald the Turkey • Kaporos Campaign • Underwater Friends •
Freddaflower Fund • For the Birds • Recipe Corner & More!
Order your 2021 Chicken Run Rescue Calendar 7 December 2020
Animal Rights Activists Rescue 510 Chickens From Slaughter 7 December 2020 - TheirTurn.net
Voices for Animal Liberation is the Perfect Holiday Gift! 5 December 2020
UPC’s Latest Podcast with Sarina Farb Who Was Born Vegan 3 December 2020
Today is Giving Tuesday! 1 December 2020
The “Thanksgiving” Turkey: Object of Sentimentality, Sarcasm, and Sacrifice 25 November 2020
What Turkey Producers Don’t Want You to Know, by Martha Rosenberg 23 November 2020
Louie B. Free Interviews Karen Davis 23 November 2020 - www.facebook.com/louiebfree
Special Holiday Episode of UPC’s Podcast Featuring Karen Davis 20 November 2020
Be Kind to Turkeys – Go Vegan , Miami! 19 November 2020
Tuesday, November 17: Acterra’s Fall 2020 Lecture Series , UPC’s Hope Bohanec will be offering a presentation called Green-Washing Our Food: The Truth Behind Sustainable Labels. 4:30 pm PST.
Using Animals: A Powerful New Video by Unparalleled Suffering 11 November 2020
Animal Farming Does Not Support “Ethics” Assurances 10 November 2020
Two New Podcasts Focused on Fish 9 November 2020
Can Killing an Animal Be Compensated For by the Creation of a New Animal? 6 November 2020
NYC Bar Assoc Forum on Animal Sacrifice and "Chicken" Kaporos (12 June 2014) 2 November 2020 - YouTube.com
Hope Bohanec: Virtual Activism in a Time of Pandemics 30 October 2020 New Podcast Episode: Eco-Vegan Film Reviews and Media Maven Jane Velez-Mitchell 30 October 2020
Gerald the Rose Garden Turkey Has Been Safely Relocated After Months of Worry Over His Fate 25 August 2020
Artist Sue Coe Casts “a Critical Eye, From the Slaughterhouse to the White House” 22 October 2020
Monday, October 26: Chicken Kaporos Webinar: Please Join Us! 20 October 2020 - www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com
New Podcast Episode: The Importance of Language and an Interview with Filmmaker Jasmine Leyva 15 October 2020
Shipping Baby Chicks Through the Mail is Inhumane and Should Be Stopped 13 October 2020
Sunday, October 11: World VegFest, UPC’s Hope Bohanec will be presenting at the San Francisco Veg Society's 21st annual virtual VegFest. 3pm PDT
COVID Cases Surge in Brooklyn’s Hasidic Hot Spots After Large, Mask-free Kaporos Events; Mayor and DOH Ignored Warnings 10 October 2020 - TheirTurn.net
Living One Webinar with UPC President Karen Davis is Ready to Watch! 9 October 2020
Two New Podcasts: The Dairy Industry Exposed 8 October 2020
Urge Delta Humane Society to Replace Animal-Abusing Fundraising Fare 7 October 2020
Urge U.S. Postal Service & Your U.S. Representative to Ban Shipping Live Birds in the Mail 2 October 2020
We Protested and Pleaded for Two Kaporos Chickens in San Diego, CA 30 September 2020 - www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com
More than 500 Birds Saved! 29 September 2020 - Tamerlaine Animal Sanctuary
Sunday, October 4: Living One Special Guest October 4: UPC President Karen Davis 28 September 2020
New Podcast Episode: More Glimmers of Hope 25 September 2020
Kaporos Chicken Slaughter: “An Unholy Ritual,” New York Daily News 24 September 2020 - www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com
Kaporos, Largest Live Animal Wet Market in the United States, Opens Ahead of Yom Kippur 19 September 2020 - TheirTurn.net
Kaporos Chicken Rescue Begins: Please Donate to This Heroic Rescue Operation! 19 September 2020 - www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com
Sunday, September 20 - Sunday, September 27: NYC Kaporos Week of Action
The Humane Hoax Chicken Webinar Videos are Ready to Watch! 19 September 2020
Greenwood Lake Swan Update - Good News for Now 18 September 2020
Animal Rights Group Plasters Anti-Kaporos Posters Throughout NYC 15 September 2020 - TheirTurn.net
Voices for Animal Liberation: Online Reading Sat Sept 19! 14 September 2020
Animal Liberation: Crisis, Strategy, Hope 13 September 2020
Mute Swan Families in New Jersey Need Our Help! 9 September 2020
Join Us for the First-Ever Chicken Webinar This Saturday! 8 September 2020
Urge Kamala Harris to Stand Up To Mike Pence on “America’s Meat” Consumption 7 September 2020
New Podcast Episode: Rooster Rescuer Justin Van Kleeck 5 September 2020
Help Us Help Kaporos Chickens: Please Support Our Campaign! 4 September 2020 An Underwater Friend Shines a Light on the Underside of Fishing29 August 2020
UPC Fall 2020 Poultry Press – Volume 30, Number 2
28 August 2020 Inside:
“Euthanasia” • CA Foie Gras Law Upheld • Denver Geese Cruelly Slaughtered •
Saving Gerald, the Oakland Turkey • Rethinking Food Choices • Hope for the Animals Podcast •
Chicken Webinar Sept 12 • Kaporos Update • Annual Report 2019 • Recipe Corner & More!
Check out the schedule for UPC’s Chicken Webinar 26 August 2020
New Podcast Episode: Are There Ethical Eggs? and Exposing “Humane” Labeling 24 August 2020
Birds and the U.S. Postal Service: What Do We Learn From the Current Tragedy? 23 August 2020
An Open Letter to The Guardian 20 August 2020
This Is Kaporos: Unparalleled Suffering Presents 17 August 2020 - www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com Living and Learning the Life of a Captive Animal – In a Zoo or in Any Cage 15 August 2020
Gerald, Oakland's Rose Garden Turkey, Still at Large 13 August 2020
New Podcast Episode: Vegan Spirituality with Lisa Levinson 11 August 2020
Animals 24-7 Recounts the Courage of Animal Rights Activist Shimon Shuchat, Who Died in late July. 8 August 2020 - www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com In Memory and Honor of Animal Rights Activist Shimon Shuchat 6 August 2020 - www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com Attorney for the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos Files New Motion in Kaporos Case 4 August 2020 - www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com
Saturday, September 12: UPC’s Chicken Webinar 3 August 2020
Pandemic Reinvigorates Push To Bar Pre-Yom Kippur ‘Kaporos’ Ritual In NYC 2 August 2020 - VosIzNeias.com
Role of the Rooster – Father, Lover, Brother, Food-finder, Guardian, Sentinel 31 July 2020
Reason for Vegan Series 4 & 5 - Turkeys, Ducks, and Geese 29 July 2020
Slaughterhouse Workers, Farmed Animals, and Animal Advocates: Can There Be Justice For All? 28 July 2020
Will Killing the Geese Stop? – A Reason for Cautious Optimism 26 July 2020
Protect Denver’s Canada Geese: Take Action! 23 July 2020
The Contradiction of “Humane” Meat and Journalist Martha Rosenberg 22 July 2020
Anti-Chicken-Kaporos Activists Relaunch Legal Attack 19 July 2020 - www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com California Foie Gras Ban Upheld By U.S. District Court 16 July 2020
Canada Geese Massacre in Denver, CO: Correspondence & Update 11 July 2020
Bird Brainpower and Rescuing Pigeons with Elizabeth Young 10 July 2020
SHARK Undercover Investigation: Kentucky Cockfights Exposed! 9 July 2020
PROTEST CANADA GEESE MASSACRE IN DENVER, COLORADO 8 July 2020
MISERY IS NOT A HEALTH FOOD 7 July 2020
Marc Bekoff, PhD: “Who’s For Dinner?” 1 July 2020
A Glimmer of Hope and Melanie Joy Explains Carnism 29 June 2020
Contact PBS NewsHour Re: Farmed Animal “Euthanasia” 25 June 2020
Petition Update - Gerald the Turkey: Update & Call to Action 24 June 2020
Update and New Call For Action for Gerald, the Rose Garden Turkey 21 June 2020
Public Pressure Saves Gerald, the Rose Garden Turkey, from Gov’t Killing! 20 June 2020
Understanding Euthanasia: When Life and Words Become Worthless 18 June 2020
Protect the Life of Gerald the Rose Garden Turkey in Oakland, CA! 16 June 2020
Unjust Farm Subsidies and Systemic Racism in the Food System with Connie Spence 15 June 2020
Karen Davis: It’s Time to Rethink Our Food Choices 7 June 2020
UPC’s Podcast: Introducing The Reason for Vegan Series 5 June 2020
Punish Man Accused of Kicking a Chicken Like a “Field Goal” 2 June 2020
Don’t Reject Animal-Free Foods that Resemble Animal Products! 1 June 2020
Episode 3: Bill Claims to End Factory Farming and Climate Healer’s Sailesh Rao 26 May 2020
Penguin Love and Hen Happiness: Two Stories of Rescue & Relief 23 May 2020
What’s Love Got to Do with It? 19 May 2020
UPC Podcast Episode 2: Meat is NOT “Essential” and Free From Harm’s Robert Grillo 15 May 2020
UPC Runs Bus Banners in Minneapolis for International Respect for Chickens Day/month of May! 13 May 2020
Unending Quarantine: We Are Not the Only Ones 10 May 2020
UPC Summer 2020 Poultry Press - Volume 30, Number 1
8 May 2020 Inside:
Celebrating 30 Years! • Wet Markets or Walmart? • Chick Shredding & Pet Food • Floating Animal Farms •
Voices for Animal Liberation • Interview: “For the Birds” • Conscious Eating Conference •
Freddaflower Fund • Recipe Corner & More!
Meet the Birds at Chicken Run Rescue on International Respect for Chickens Day 7 May 2020
“Hard Decisions: How Consumers View Mass Depopulation,” Progressive Farmer 6 May 2020
Karen Davis returns to BrainFood from the Heartland today for International Respect for Chickens Day 4 May 2020 - fb.com
In Celebration of International Respect for Chickens Day , We Are Announcing a New UPC Podcast 4 May 2020
Hindustan Times Article Supports International Respect for Chickens Day!3 May 2020
“Talking Animals” Radio Show Interviews UPC President Karen Davis for International Respect for Chickens Day: Tune In! 2 May 2020
News Release: International Respect For Chickens Day Celebrates Compassion for Chickens 1 May 2020
Talking Animals Radio Show Interview with Karen Davis 1 May 2020 - Facebook.com
“Kindness Is Contagious – Live Vegan – Wash Your Hands of Animal Suffering” Ad in the Greenbelt News Review 30 April 2020
China’s Wet Markets, America’s Factory Farming 30 April 2020
News Release: “Depopulation” of Poultry Does Not Mean “Humanely Killed” 29 April 2020
Pilgrim’s Pride and Koch Foods Pursue Mass Killing and Live Burial of Chickens, Rescuers Arrested 28 April 2020
CNN Reports “Humanely Killed” Chickens: Complain to CNN 27 April 2020
“Disregarded” Shows the Plight Chickens Face 24 April 2020
PawPAC Coalition Urges Ban on Wild Animal Markets 22 April 2020
Take a GIANT STEP: Go Vegan! 21 April 2020
Are Chickens Sentient Beings? – On Being a Mother Hen 18 April 2020
Six Ways to Take Action for Animals While Staying Safe at Home 16 April 2020 How Can We Help Chickens and Other Farmed Animals? 14 April 2020
Birth of a Baby Chicken: An Easter Story 11 April 2020
UPC’s Hope Bohanec on Speciesism, the Covid-19 Crisis and the Chicken Industry 8 April 2020
Watch United Poultry Concerns’ 30-Year Anniversary Video! 3 April 2020
Assuming Chickens Suffer Less than Pigs is Idle Speciesism 2 April 2020
Sign Petition to Surgeon General to Ban Live Animal Markets 31 March 2020
2020 Climate Diet Summit 30 March 2020
Book Review: Voices For Animal Liberation: Inspirational Accounts By Animal Rights Activists 26 March 2020
Announcing the Conscious Eating Conference 2020 Videos 12 March 2020
Two Beautiful Stories Show Animal Love in Action 4 March 2020
Voices for Animal Liberation is Ready to Buy! 3 March 2020
Don’t Miss UPC’s 9th Annual Conscious Eating Conference 24 February 2020
Chick Shredding, Pet Food & Tyson Proteins 22 February 2020
Ridgeland Chicken Toss: Animal Rights Witnesses & Rescuers Report 19 February 2020
New Bumper Sticker & Mailer Sticker! 14 February 2020
Announcing UPC’s 9th Annual Conscious Eating Conference 10 February 2020
Join Me in Urging Antioch College to Stop Farming Animals 6 February 2020
Protest Farm Program at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio: Your Voice is Needed! 3 February 2020
Wet Markets or Walmart? Animal Consumption & the Coronavirus 31 January 2020
UPC Winter-Spring 2020 Poultry Press - Volume 29, Number 4
30 January 2020 Inside:
Conscious Eating Conference Feb 29 • Courageous Chickens • Turkeys: Sensibility & Sentience • Happy Home for Kaporos Chickens • Kaporos Rescue Report •
Stop Cruel Chicken Toss • For the Birds is Superlative! • Vegan Voices: “Life Can Be Beautiful” • Respect for Chickens Day • Freddaflower Fund •
Recipe Corner & More!
NEW DATE: 2nd Annual Humane Hoax Online Summit 23 January 2020
Podcast: Karen Davis on Chickens & Fowl Language on Our Hen House 20 January 2020
PETITION: End Criminal “Chicken Toss” 18 January 2020
Animal Rights Activists Rescue Over 200 Animals from Slaughter 17 January 2020 - TheirTurn.net
Plane Crashes and Slaughterhouses: Who Suffers More? 15 January 2020
John Sanbonmatsu: “Why 'fake' meat isn't,” 14 January 2020
Petition: Kentucky Needs a Clearly Written and Upgraded Felony Cockfighting Law 9 January 2020
Urge Ridgeland, Wisconsin Officials to Stop Cruel Chicken Toss 7 January 2020
Saturday, February 29: Overlapping Oppressions: Register Now for Our Conscious Eating Conference 6 January 2020
Put a Light Footprint on the Planet - Be Vegan 1 January 2020