Home | What's New? | News Releases | Action Alerts | PoultryPress | Resources | Merchandise | Links | E-mail Previous UPC Action Alerts Chicken Abusers Charged With Animal Cruelty by Contra Costa County, California DA 18 March 2011 Tell Va Governor to Veto Cruel Farm Animal Bills 4 March 2011 Contact New DA Re: Chicken Killings at El Monte Elementary School in California 21 February 2011 Virginia Residents: Tell Governor NO to Proposed Farm Animal Cruelty Exemptions! 16 February 2011 Rescued Roosters Need Homes! Animal Place Needs Your Help . . . 20 January 2011 12/03/10: Teenage Boys Arrested for Killing Chickens at El Monte Elementary in Concord, CA 11/11/10: Ban Battery Cages in Israel! Add Your Voice to the Demand! 11/07/10: “Weigh In” – on Going Vegan and Speciesist Language 10/27/10: AFLAC Ad Promotes Animal Abuse in New Commercial. Please Protest! 10/21/10: Concordia High School Teacher Bullies Students to Kill Chickens - One Bold Student Said No! She Stole Her Chicken Chicklett to Safety 10/12/10: Please Write a Thank You Letter to the Editor of THE WASHINGTON POST Re: “An ancient tradition draws protests” by Carol Guzy, The Washington Post, Oct. 9, 2010 09/30/10: Canned Pigeon Hunt Exposed on CNN Headline NEWS show TONIGHT 08/17/10: Petition to Replace Chickens with Money in Kaporos Rituals 06/22/10: PBS News Hour Treats Chicken Abuse as Cute Advertising 06/09/10: TIME For Fake Chicken 06/03/10: Protest “Hammered Chicken” Contest in Baltimore Maryland, June 4 05/26/10: Chickens Viciously Attacked in North Pole, Alaska 04/15/10: Chickens Cruelly Spray-Painted at Carnegie Mellon University 03/10/10: Rescued King Pigeons Make Great Pets! 02/12/10: Pennsylvania Pigeon Shoots Need Protest Letters 11/25/09: Coalition of Animal Sanctuaries Craft Policy Statement on Urban Chicken-Keeping 11/18/09: Children Slaughtered Chickens in Idaho Community School 08/18/09: UPC Tells Little Rhody Egg Farms Owner: Stop Starving Your Hens! 08/05/09: “Free-Range” Poultry and Eggs: Not All They’re Cracked Up to Be - UPC’s New Brochure is Now Available in Print and Online! 05/06/09: Protest Oprah's Giving Away KFC Chicken Meals (Eating Misery: Contamination and Cruelty are Linked in Chickens Raised for Food) 12/11/08: Inhumane Conditions at LaGranja Live Poultry and Nick's Poultry 08/13/09: Urge Humane Society of Missouri NOT to Serve Animals 12/5/08: News Release - United Poultry Concerns Campaign to Save Canandaigua Chickens Succeeds! Controversial Canandaigua Academy Chicken Project 11/25/08: Letters to NY State Education Department Urgently Needed 7/13/08: Canandaigua Academy Plans to Resume Classroom Chicken Killing 7/09/08: High School Curriculum to Resume Chicken Slaughter? 10/29/08: Urge Berea Animal Rescue to Drop Chicken Fundraising Dinner In Favor of a Compassionate Fundraiser 7/25/08: Harvest Hills Animal Shelter Chicken BBQ Sat July 26 - Please protest! 7/13/08: Canned Bird Hunt in Sag Harbor, Long Island, NY 7/08/08: CONNECTICUT YANKEES SAY, "Get the hens out of the cages!" 2/28/08: We are at the End of the Road for Animal Fighting in Virginia 7/31/07: Protest Orthodox Union Event 6/08/07: AMAZON.COM SUPPORTS COCKFIGHTING Please Protest! 4/26/07:UPC Celebrates International Respect for Chickens Day at the White House & Takoma Park, Md, May 4 & 5, 2007 – Please Join Us! 4/11/07: UPC President Karen Davis Will Speak at Maine Animal Coalition Food Festival 4/04/07: Do a Good Deed for Chickens for International Respect for Chickens Day May 4 2/26/07: Chickens Sadistically Abused at Kansas State University Basketball Game 2/22/07: Urge MORNINGSTAR FARMS to Stop Using Eggs 12/04/06: San Diego Meeting Dec 6 to Ban Foie Gras: Help is Needed! 11/22/06: Turkey article in Minneapolis Star-Tribune - letters needed 11/16/06: New Yorker Article on Turkeys Cites United Poultry Concerns 9/29/06: MAKE A PHONE CALL AGAINST CHICKEN SACRIFICE IN LA 9/29/06: Jewish chicken-killing ritual "Kapparot" is "illegal, inhumane and unnecessary. It is animal cruelty." 9/29/06: THIS SUNDAY ACTION ALERT – LAST DAY OF THE ANNUAL WEEKLONG CHICKEN SACRIFICE 9/27/06: Action Alert - Annual Weeklong Chicken Sacrifice 9/13/06: Action Alert – Please Protest Cruelty to a Chicken on Survivor 8/17/06: (NC) Wildlife/bird sanctuary serving chicken 7/19/06: Letters Needed for chickens 6/08/06: Nevada Spca Fundraiser 6/05/06: SHUT DOWN FILTHY LIVE POULTRY MARKETS!! 5/15/06: Shipment of Baby Chicks: Oppose Senate Bill 2395 4/24/06: International Respect for Chickens Day May 4th 4/11/06: Rapid City Journal (SD) Covers United Poultry Concerns Protest Against Cruel Treatment of Chickens 3/07/06: Urge Reptile Gardens to Drop Chicken Basketball and Tic Tac Toe Games 2/17/06: Volunteer(s) Urgently Needed to Videotape "Chicken Drop" in Ridgeland, Wisconsin 1/06/06: Rescued Quails Need Homes 11/11/05: Avian Influenza: Action Alert 10/24/05: Help 270 Brooklyn Chickens Rescued From Ritual Slaughter 9/28/05: Chat with a Cockamaniac 8/19/05: Contra Costa Times: "Groups save chickens, offer them for adoption" 8/11/05: Rabbits Renamed "Poultry" by the USDA: Your Help is Urgently Needed 8/11/05: Future Trends in Animal Agriculture Symposium Program 8/03/05: Protest Carl’s Jr. Ad that Denigrates Chickens 6/27/05: Sierra Club Touts Turning Slaughterhouse Chicken Feathers Into Plastic: "The Perfect Fix" to help the Poultry Industry Get MORE RICH 6/09/05: UPC Alert: Thank Wild Oats for Adopting a Cage-Free Policy for Hens 5/31/05: Tyson Chicken Torture: UPC Letter and Action Alert: Please Write! 5/19/05: Urge District Attorney to Prosecute Chicken Torturers at Camp Evergreen 5/11/05: "[UPC] Activists Cry Fowl in Takoma Park" in TAKOMA PARK GAZETTE 5/09/05: Let HSBC Bank know that you find their current ad offensive. 4/21/05: Attention Washington DC Area Residents & Others 3/18/05: LETTERS OF SUPPORT NEEDED ON SB 662 3/03/05: New Investigation Exposes Appalling Cruelty at Ohio’s Largest "Animal Care Certified" Egg Farm" 2/28/05: Ask AARP to Stop Advertising Cruel, Demeaning Ostrich Races 2/01/05: UPC Sends You a Great Letter-to-the-Editor Opportunity 1/31/05: UPC Brings You the Following Three Action Alerts 1/24/05: NY School Duck Hatching Project---Letters Needed 1/17/05: URGENT UPDATE: Monstrous Cruelty at a KFC-Supplier Slaughterhouse Your Help Needed! 1/11/05: Why is Viva!USA Down on Pier 1 Imports? 12/14/04: YOUR HELP REQUESTED 12/10/04: Urge the University of California To Enact an Anti-Cruelty Policy Student Slaughtered a Chicken in an Art Class 12/01/04:Urge University of Delaware President to Stop Nutritional Deprivation Experiments On Chicks and Ducklings 10/27/04: Christian Science Monitor Looks at the Search for “Guilt-Free” Food 10/15/04: Urge USDA to Regulate Care & Use of Birds, Mice, and Rats 8/31/04: Why UPC Supports SB 1520 and Urges Everyone Else to Support the Bill 8/30/04: Urge CA Governor Schwarzenegger to Sign SB 1520 into Law! 8/23/04: UPC Action Alert and Fundraiser 8/10/04: UPC Brings You Three Alerts 8/07/04: Urge Prosecutor to Charge Pilgrim’s Pride Co. and Workers with Animal Cruelty. Urge Pilgrim’s Pride to Implement Changes 7/22/04: Urge Congress to Include Poultry Under the Federal Humane Slaughter Act 7/20/04: UPC eNews 7/17/04: Please take a quick second to thank WJLA! 7/16/04: “Chicken Soup” Book Authors Need to Hear From Us 6/28/04: AVMA Responds Falsely to New York Times Ad 6/27/04: UPC President and AVAR Veterinary Consultant Publish Replies to Veterinarian Who Calls Wood Chipper a Humane Death for Thousands of Chickens. Letters and Action Alerts Follow. 6/24/04: DawnWatch: Parenting Magazine offers encouragement when kids decide to go veggie 6/15/04: URGENT ACTION ALERT ON CALIFORNIA SB 1520 6/09/04: Chickens and Other Sanctuary Animals Desperately Need New Homes 5/28/04: Austrian Parliament Votes Unanimously To Ban Battery Cages! 5/14/04: Please Urge a Full Investigation of Bird Abuse Case 4/27/04: Help Ban Force Feeding of Ducks in California 4/27/04: Letter to Ban Foie Gras in California! 4/16/04: Help Ban Foie Gras in California! 3/15/04: The Pig Who Sang To the Moon Gets a Great Review in The Atlantic Monthly 03/03/04: Foie Gras Production Under Attack in California, New York 2/2/04: Veterinary Magazines Cite United Poultry Concerns Leadership on Wood-Chipper Probe into the Role of AVMA Animal Welfare Committee Member 1/23/04: Harper's Alert 1/16/04: URGE PROSECUTION OF FEDERALCOCK-FIGHTING CASE 1/10/04: Protest Humane Society Serving Animal Products at Fundraiser 12/11/03: Thank Howard Stern for Sticking Up for Chickens! 12/08/03: Front page of today's LA Times: A Killing Floor Chronicle 11/19/03: Protest to the AVMA Against Gregg Cutler, DVM 11/13/03: United Poultry Concerns Urges the NHSPCA to Serve Compassionate Meals Instead of Dead Chickens and Fish at Its November 15 Fundraiser 11/11/03: Live chickens to be tortured in Spanish blood fiesta 11/07/03: Protest to Dairy Queen – Again 11/07/03: Urge the New Hampshire SPCA NOT to Serve Dead Animals 11/05/03: Urge The People's Champions Not to Harass Animals 10/21/03: DUCK FARM SUES ANIMAL ACTIVISTS 10/20/03: URGENT: DON'T LET COCKFIGHTERS DETER CONGRESS FROM FUNDING ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL ANIMAL FIGHTING LAW! 10/07/03: Washington Post Article on New USDA Poultry Categories 9/09/03: Urgent Action Alert: Sadistic Cruelty Alleged at a Tyson Slaughterhouse 9/09/03: Protest the new Dairy Queen ads showing basketball players throwing chickens around like basketballs 9/04/03: Men in Bulloch County Georgia Charged in Sadistic Videotaped Chicken Killings Letters to the Editor Urgently Needed 8/22/03: OohMahNee Sanctuary Has Rescued Buckeye Hens for Adoption Responsible Caregivers Sought 8/13/03: Urge Trader Joe’s to Refuse to Sell Eggs from Battery-Caged Hens 8/13/03: MTV “Road Rules” Executive Producers Need To Hear From Us 724/03: Buckeye Chickens Need Your Help! 7/24/03: AVMA Protest Report 6/25/03: United Poultry Concerns (UPC) Condemns Fox Broadcasting for Promoting Bird Abuse for Ratings, People are Urged to Protest 6/16/03: United Poultry Concerns, Eastern Shore Chicken Sanctuary Will Protest Delmarva Festival of Death 6/06/03: New Jersey Proposes Cruel “Humane Standards” for Farmed Animals 6/03/03: United Poultry Concerns Urges the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) to oppose the forced molting of laying birds. Veterinarians and others are encouraged to write to the AVMA.6/03/03 5/30/03: Urge that Three New Jersey Men Charged with Bludgeoning Birds to Death at the Popcorn Park Zoo Be Prosecuted for Cruelty to Animals 4/30/03: Letters for Chickens are Needed “Killing Them Softly,” The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Column One, Stephanie Simon, April 29, 2003 4/16/03: Thirty Thousand Hens Were Fed to Wood-Chipping Machines Urge Deputy District Attorney to File Cruelty Charges Against Everyone Responsible 4/04/03: United Poultry Concerns Report & Action Alert Exotic Newcastle Disease (END) and the Mass Killing of Birds 4/03/03: Urge Prosecution of Tyson Chicken Slaughterhouse Workers 3/19/03: Tell the USDA to Stop Reimbursing Cockfighters with U.S. Tax Dollars 3/10/03: Please Write a Letter Against Cockfighting 3/07/03: Chickens Bought By Marines To Detect Poisonous Chemicals Died in Kuwait Use of Chickens Suspended: Urge President Bush Not to Resume Their Use 3/06/03: Poultry Company Resumes Starvation of Hens 3/03/03: Letters Needed Immediately Regarding Two Cases of Cruelty to Birds 2/27/03: Cockfighting Hurts More Than Just Fighting Birds 2/23/03: Chickens to Be Used by U.S. Military in Iraq What You Can Do to Protest 2/13/03: Tell President Bush to Treat Pardoned Turkeys Better 2/10/03: Urge Baking Companies to Include Vegan Alternatives to Eggs in Their Package Instructions and Recipes 1/2/2003: Protest Chicken Abuse on NBC's "Tonight Show." 12/3/2002: Urge That Livestock Abuse Charges Be Pressed Against Iowa Turkey Beaters 11/22/2002: Fort Worth Star-Telegram Article Disparages Turkeys 11/21/2002: New Hampshire SPCA Supports Cruelty to Farmed & Ocean Animals 11/11/2002: "An Animal's Place," "....Mindful Meat Eating" 10/29/2002: Action Alert - Protest to Orbitz-Again! 10/7/2002: Protest Wisconsin Teacher's Hatcheting of a Chicken in the Schoolyard 8/13/2002: Please write to the National Chicken Council Today! 8/2/2002: Action Alert - Tell Orbitz to Pull Vicious Chicken Cartoon Ad Immediately 6/27/2002: Please Urge AVMA to Change Position on Forced Molting 6/24/2002: Please Urge Casino to Stop Forcing Hens To Pay Tic-Tac-Toe 4/23/2002: Letter to Living on Earth Re: Show on Germany Battery Cage Ban 4/12/2002: Please Write a Letter for the Cypress Hens Now! 4/9/2002: Tell UEP To Practice What They Preach:Stop Starving Hens! W2002 PP: Cloned Chickens, Facially Disfigured Chicks, & Blinded Hens 3/12/2002: UPC Donations Needed For Cypress Farms Hens Rescue 3/6/2002: Protest "Send a Chick to Afghanis-Scam" Updated 3/27 3/4/2002: AFLAC TV Commercial Degrades Ducks 2/13/2002: UPC Internet Campaign Gets Carl's Jr. to Drop Lewd Commercial Winter 2001 PP: Urge the ASPCA to Enforce the Law Regarding "Kapparot" Chickens 11/5/2001: Burger King Toy Promotes Cruelty Towards Animals 10/11/2001: Force Feeding of Ducks and Geese-Contact NY Attorney General 10/11/2001: Support Anti-Cockfighting Amendment 9/6/2001: Protest the Use of Live Hens in Casino Video Game 8/1/2001: RSPCA approved Liberty Barnlaid Eggs a Sham 7/20/2001: Senate Ag Bill: School Lunch and Forced Molting 5/31/2001: Please Urge Prosecution of Sexual Abuser and Killer of Hen 4/19/2001: Children's Book Celebrates Chicken Killing as Boyish Mischief 4/4/2001: Birds, Rats, and Mice Need Your Help ASAP! 3/28/2001: UK Chicken Rescue Centre Needs Our Support Spring 2001: Tell United Egg Producers They Need to do More to Help Hens 2/20/2001: The Dallas Children's Zoo - What To Do? 1/29/2001: Live Chicks on Comedy Central's TV Funhouse 1/10/2001: Tyson Chickens Victimized by Winter Storms 2000-01 Winter PP: Stop Production, Distribution & Sale of Cruel, Obscene Rubber Chicken Toy 11/28/2000: "A Southern Season" Selling Foie Gras 11/8/2000: Tell Food Companies to Treat Chickens Better 11/3/2000: Stop Boston Museum of Science Chick Hatchery Exhibit 10/30/2000: Imagine Foods, Inc. Selling Chicken Broth Help Stop Forced Molting California Bill To Ban Forced Molting: Update Today Show Promoting The Incredible IN-EDIBLE Egg AVMA Betrays Veterinarian's Oath UPC Campaign to Ban Starvation of Hens Martha Stewart Promoting Foie Gras Urge the Boy Scouts to implement a formal written Code of Behavior 12/10/99: SICK OF PERDUE? CALL 1-800-473-7383 Ongoing Campaigns: Guinea Fowl Drop, Chicken Flying Contest, Ostrich Races Chicken Flying Contest Canceled!! Protest Sutton Place Gourmet Selling of Emu Protest WholeFoods Selling of Ostrich and Emu 8/26/2002: Fundraiser for Needy Children Promotes Animal Cruelty 8/14/2001: Thank NW Airlines For Banning Shipment of Animals 10/23/2001: News Release - Carnegie Science Center Has Shut Down Sad Chick Hatchery for Good 8/10/2001: Protest Electronic Duck Decoys Summber 2001: Bills Killed 6/4/2001: News Release - Trooper Who Intentionally Roadkilled a Beloved Turkey Goes Free 5/27/2001: UPC Protests Jim Perdue Speech at Wharton Business School 4/7/2001: Protest Japanese "Survivor" Chicken Beating 3/26/2001: Oppose OK Hunting/Fishing/Cockfighting Amendment 1/12/2001: Law Proposed in Washington State to Help Protect Hens 8/16/2000: Stop Rembrandt,IA Egg Farm Winter 2000-01 PP: Court Kills Suit to Ban Live Animal Markets in San Francisco 12/13/2000: ABC News Business Segment Advocates Turkey Killing 12/12/2000: Help Charge Trucker With Cruel Transport of Chickens 12/11/2000: Chicken Farmer, Keith Amberson, To Pay Fine For Animal Cruelty 10/21/2000: MIA Exhibitors Free Chickens from Exhibit 10/9/2000: Action Alert - Cancel WTA Foie Gras Seminar 10/7/2000: News Release - Chicken Roping "Competition" Canceled 9/4/2000: Planning Application For One Million Broiler Bird Factory Denied! 8/7/2000: TIME Magazine Article: "My Chicken Run" 8/1/2000: Tell FDA to Oppose Egg Irradiation Updt: 7/11/2000: No "Breakfast, Lunch   Dinner" Chickens on SURVIVOR 8/2/2000: Comments Needed on FDA and USDA Egg Safety Plan 6/26/2000: Protest Burger King - Chicken Run Promotion 2/5/2000: Protest Pro-Foie Gras Radio Show 2/3/2000: NBC4 Should Not Promote Emu Slaughter Products 2/15/2000: Urge School Lunch to Nix Nuggets Forever! 6/6/2000: Egg Farmer Keith Amberson Charged With Animal Cruelty Today! 1/28/2000: Update - Meredith Farms Chicken Abandonment Case Postponed 1/17/2000: UPC Nukes chicken Nuggets Exhibit 12/22/99: 60 Minutes: Pay Attention to the Birds! Oklahoma Campaign to Ban Cockfighting "Poultry Slam" Needs Further Action! Amberson Farm Hens Need Your Help Keith Amberson Starved 50,000 Hens to Death! Will Birds, Rats, and Mice Finally Be Covered Under The Animal Welfare Act? Offensive Shake'nBake TV AD Please Comment:The U.S. Government Invites Public Comment on Developing a Comprehensive Federal Food Safety Plan Nike Commercial Promotes the Abuse of Chickens Urge TODAY SHOW to cancel Egg Sponsor Comment on Animal Waste Management Summit Please Write Or Call "Peter Jennings" Preacher Preying on Animal Activists Sweedish Battery Hen Ban in Danger! Cockfighting Banned in AZ and MO Send Comments to USDA on Preventing Salmonella Mesa State College Professor Abuses Chickens Write to Demand Prosecution of Dr. Steven Vinson, Emu Beater, Killer Protest "Brainstorms" Chick-A-Bator Dying Duck Race in Deming NM Tell Oprah Winfrey to Treat Turkeys Tenderly Wildbird magazine has cancelled it's contract with United Poultry Concerns to run this ad, citing "complaints". Wildbird is afraid of losing subscription dollars. Write Wildbird immediately and let them know they will lose more money by cancelling the ad, than by running it. Click here The New Mexico Department of Tourism has removed its listing of rooster pulls. However, there is still more you can do to help eliminate these cruel events. For more information or contact UPC at the address below. Home | What's New? | News Releases | Action Alerts | PoultryPress | Resources | Merchandise | Links | E-mail