News Archives 2001
- 12/26/2001: An Open Letter to Vegan
Voice Re:Singer's Disparagement of Chickens
- 12/5/2001: Fasting: An Interview With Karen
Davis
- 12/18/2001: UPC Letter Re: NPR Story
on Birds Genetically Modified for Blindness
- Chickens and Chimpanzees: The Odd Couple
of the Animal Rights Movement
- 12/6/2001: The Difference Between the Dallas
Zoo and McDonald's
- 11/25/2001: In
S.C., turkey shoot aims at tradition, not the bird (external link)
- 11/23/2001: Thanksgiving
gobbling saddens U.S. turkey lovers (external link)
- 11/22/2001: News Article - Baby chicks
are sent to a freezer at the Dallas Zoo
- Karen Davis' New Book MORE THAN A MEAL
Now Available! Order Now!
- Kokun and Potpo, UPC Sanctuary Residents
- Saved From Slaughter
- 9/18/2001: Letters Re: Protest
the Use of Live Hens in Casino Video Game
- 11/5/2001: UPC Letter Re:Leagy-Fizgerald
Amendment:School Lunch/Forced Molting
- 11/7/2001: News Article - Bill
Passes Forcing Airlines To Transport Chicks Cheaply
- 11/5/2001: Action Alert - Burger King Toy
Promotes Cruelty Towards Animals
- 10/27/2001: UPC Letter About Chickens
in 10/22 Issue of FeedStuffs
- 11/1/2001: News Release - 4th Annual
Turkey Vigil To Be Held In Bethesda, Md
- 10/23/2001: News Release - Carnegie
Science Center Has Shut Down Sad Chick Hatchery for Good
- 10/19/2001: Toledo
Blade Article:Activists Rescue 34 Hens From Farms
- 11/16/2001: UPC Turkey Vigil 2001
- 11/4/2001: UPC KFC Protest in Van Ness,
DC
- 10/11/2001: Action Alert - Force
Feeding of Ducks and Geese-Contact NY Attorney General
- 10/11/2001: Action Alert -
Support Anti-Cockfighting Amendment
- 10/8/2001: UPC Letter to Dr. Michael
Appleby re: HSUS Award to James Frantzen
- UPC Fact Sheet - "Broiler" Chicken
Skeletal Problems in the U.S.
- Does
Dr. Dolittle Do Too Little? (external link)
- 9/26/2001: News Release - UPC
11th Annual Mourning Vigil for Chickens On WFAD
- 12/8-9/2001(New Date): UPC 3rd Annual Forum: Does
Animal Welfare Hurt or Help Abolition?
- 9/6/2001: Action Alert - Protest
the Use of Live Hens in Casino Video Game
- Fall 2001 PoultryPress
UPC Forum, Vigil for Chickens, Conference Report, Annual Report, And More!
- 8/31/2001: News Release - Northwest
Airlines Did Right to Ban Airmail Shipping of Live Birds
- 8/30/2001: News Release - Bird Veterinarians
Speak Out Against Forced Molting
- 9/23/2001: UPC KFC Protest in Alexandria,
VA
- 10/2/2001: 11th Annual Mourning
Vigil for Chickens
- 8/21/2001: UPC Letter to NW Airlines
Re: Banning Shipment of Animals as Airmail
- 8/20/2001: UPC Letter Re: RSPCA approved
Liberty Barnlaid Eggs a Sham
- Presenters, Topics & Schedule UPC
Forum 2001: Do Animal Welfare Campaigns Hurt Or Help Animal Rights?
- 8/14/2001: Action Alert - Thank NW
Airlines For Banning Shipment of Animals
- 8/10/2001: Action Alert - Protest Electronic
Duck Decoys
- UPC KFC Protests in August, 2001 - Virginia
and Illinois
- 8/9/2001: Egg Industry Magazine:
Animal Welfare Will Not Go Away
- 7/31/2001: Washington Post: Senate
Passes Anti-Cockfighting Bill
- 8/1/2001: AART Hen Rescue: RSPCA Approved "Liberty" Barnlaid
Eggs a Sham
- 7/24/2001: News Release - Chicken Rights
Activists Target KFC for Protest
- 7/23/2001: News Release - UPC
Urges VA Senators to Support Leahy-Fitzgerald Amendment
- 7/20/2001: Letter to Burger King from
United Poultry Concerns
- 7/20/2001: Action Alert - Senate
Ag Bill: School Lunch and Forced Molting
- 7/11/2001: The
Natural History of the Chicken on PBS
- UPC KFC Demonstration - Lanham, MD - July
29, 2001
- 6/18/2001: News Article - Delmarva
Chicken Festival Protest in The Daily Times
- 6/14/2001: UPC Letter Re: "Cluck
You" by Janet Reynolds
- 6/14/2001: News Release - Protest
the Delmarva Chicken Festival Of Sickness, Fear, and Death
- Summer 2001 PoultryPress
Remembering Boris, Conferences, Books, Burnout, And More!
- 6/16/2001: Protest the Delmarva
Chicken Festival Of Death
- 6/6/2001: ISECruelty.com > Press
Release - Advocates Rescue Hens from Maryland Egg "Factory"
- 6/6/2001: Activists Accuse Egg
Farm of Cruelty (washingtonpost.com)
- 6/4/2001: News Release - Trooper
Who Intentionally Roadkilled a Beloved Turkey Goes Free
- 6/3/2001: Karla - UPC Sanctuary Resident
- 5/17/2001: Hartford Advocate: Cluck You!
The chemicals in your poultry.
- 5/31/2001: Action Alert - Please Urge
Prosecution of Sexual Abuser and Killer of Hen
- 5/30/2001: News Release - Activists
Will Protest Salisbury State Honoring Frank Perdue
- 5/29/2001: Action Alert - Protest
Frank Perdue Being Honored by Salisbury State Univ on June 2nd
- 5/27/2001: UPC Protests
Jim Perdue Speech at Wharton Business School
- 6/3/2001: UPC KFC Demonstration - Laurel,MD
- 5/26/2001: Pictures of the West
Side Poultry Rescue
- 5/8/2001: Letters Re: Children's Book TOM
Celebrates Chicken Killing
- 5/22/2001: Action Alert - Minn. State
Trooper Intenionally Ran Over a Turkey
- 5/17/2001: News Release - Activists
Call On Wharton School To Cancel Jim Perdue's Speech
- 5/15/2001: Action Alert - Protest Jim
Perdue as Speaker at Univ of Penn on May 23rd
- 5/10/2001: Animals Killed
for Food in the United States in 2000 (millions)
- 5/2/2001: News Article - Chickens
bound for pot will get to fly the coop
- 5/6/2001: News Release - All 214
West Side "Poultry" Out Of There!
- 4/27/2001: Action Alert - Ban
Cockfighting Bills: Your Letters are Needed ASAP!
- 3/15/2001: UPC Letter to National Review
Online re:Bestiality
- 4/29/2001: News Release - West Side
Poultry in Cleveland, OH to be Shut Down!
- 4/22/2001: Bestiality: Animal Liberation
or Human License? By Karen Davis, PhD
- 4/23/2001: Action Alert - California
Residents! Oppose CA Assembly Bill 236
- 4/19/2001: Action Alert
- Children's Book Celebrates Chicken Killing as Boyish Mischief
- 4/15/2001: International Battery Hen Rescue
In New Zealand
- 4/29/2001: UPC KFC Demonstration - Colmar
Manor, MD
- 4/4/2001: Village Voice Letters Re:
Bestiality
- 4/4/2001: UPC Letter Re: Laura Vanderkam,
Peter Singer's 'Heavy Petting,'
- 2/9/2001: UPC Letter in WSJ re:Chicken
Sexing
- 3/26/2001: Feedstuffs Aricle - Agriculture
Told To Fight On Activists' Ground Using 'Attack Technologies' Or Face
Destruction
- 4/4/2001: UPC Letter Printed in Denver's
Mile-High Magazine Re: Willie B
- 4/7/2001: Action Alert - Protest
Japanese "Survivor" Chicken Beating
- 4/4/2001: Action Alert - Birds,
Rats, and Mice Need Your Help ASAP!
- 4/4/2001: Action Alert - Tell Lott
to Allow Senate to Vote on Cockfighting
- 4/16/2001: UPC Will Protest White House Egg
Roll
- 3/28/2001: Action Alert -
UK Chicken Rescue Centre Needs Our Support
- 3/26/2001: Action Alert - Oppose
OK Hunting/Fishing/Cockfighting Amendment
- 3/25/2001: UPC Letter to The New Republic
re: Bestiality/Peter Singer
- 2/3/2001: UPC Op-Ed On DJ Stephen Meade
- Spring 2001 PoultryPress
Action Alerts, Conferences, Chucky, Battery Hen Displays, And More!
- McDonald's Chicken Head - Put a Face
on Your Food!
- 3/6/2001: Washington
State Hen Legislation Defeated
- 9/15-16/2001: UPC 3rd Annual Forum: Does Animal
Welfare Hurt or Help Abolition?
- 3/14/2001: News Release - Denver DJ Sentenced
for Cruelty to Hen
- 2/18/2001: Assisting Injured Fowl
- The Daily Times
- 3/2/2001:Action Alert Update - Dallas Zoo
Response & Board of Directors List
- 2/22 & 3/1 2001: Dallas Observer
- Letters to the Editor re: Dallas Zoo Chicks
- 3/25/2001: UPC Meat-Out KFC Demonstration
- 2/7/2001: Eighty-one percent support
cockfighting ban, survey shows
- 2/18/2001: Hens Find Paradise on
Maui
- 2/20/2001: Action Alert - The Dallas Children's
Zoo - What To Do?
- 2/7/2001: News Release - Fresh Fields
Targeted For Selling Dead Ducks
- 2/2/2001: News Release - DJ Convicted
of Animal Cruelty For Chicken Abuse
- 1/29/2001: Action Alert - Live Chicks
on Comedy Central's TV Funhouse
- 1/1/2001: Feedstuffs Aricle - Consumer
views on animal production pushing toward more ethical husbandry
- 2/18/2001: UPC Protest Against KFC in
Washington, DC
- 1/14/2001: UPC Protest Against KFC in Silver
Spring, MD
- 1/12/2001: Law Proposed in Washington State
to Help Protect Hens
- 1/10/2001: UPC Letter to Tyson,
Foster Farms re: Chickens Victimized by Winter Storms
- Winter 2000-01 PoultryPress
UPC Forum on Farmed Animals, Chickens in Art & Entertainment, New Poster,
New Button! And More!
- Help Our Feathered Friends! - January
2001