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April 27, 2005
May 4th Chickens Day
Thanks to Matt for the best laugh I've had all day:
International Respect for Chickens Day
Karen Davis, the founder and president of United Poultry Concerns, describes May 4 as a day to "celebrate the dignity, beauty and life of chickens and to protest against the bleakness of their lives in farming operations."
"Chickens are lively birds who have been torn from the leafy world in which they evolved. We want chickens to be restored to their green world and not be eaten," Davis said in a press release.
*rolls eyes* Good grief. Yeah, let's let them roam free as Nature intended. And be eaten by foxes and hawks and every other carnivore, like Nature intended. But for humans to eat them, that's just wrong man.
In a Feb. 12, 2005 Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, Karen Davis noted she spends her days with chickens and turkeys and she praised their intelligence: "The day may come when to be called a 'chicken' or a 'turkey' will be rightly regarded as a salute to a person's intelligence," she wrote.
I hope I never live long enough to see that day. Because as we all know, Chickens Is Stupid.
Posted by Rita at April 27, 2005 07:01 PM
Comments
I absolutely love seeing chickens -- on the Scale Of Whimsy, they rate pretty high. But I "respect" those chickens when they are deep-fried and served in a red-n-white bucket.
Posted by: david at April 27, 2005 09:58 PM
Chickens is high-larious. And stupid. And delicious.
Posted by: Keith at April 28, 2005 09:18 AM
I had a little black hen once that had imprinted on me & a duck. She would often sit on my shoulder when I was outside & generally follow me wherever I went. But she would also follow the duck out in the water & stand there pecking at the water. Sweet-natured, but dumb as a box of rocks.
Posted by: rita at April 28, 2005 10:08 AM