News Archives 2003
- 12/31/03: Compassion over Killing's
Paper: Mad Cow Disease in the United States
- 12/23/03: Professor Supports Abusive Practices
- 12/20/03: Book & Film Review The
Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
- 12/16/03: Suffering Of Farmed Turkeys Exposed
In UK
- 12/16/03: Huge article in The Guardian
questioning health benefits of and govt subsidies for milk
- 12/11/03: Thank Howard Stern for Sticking
Up for Chickens!
- 12/11/03: Avian Vet Assn. Defends Gregg Cutler
Despite Evidence
- 12/08/03: Harvard Phoenix Club Accused
Of Animal Cruelty
- 12/08/03: Front page of today's LA Times:
A Killing Floor Chronicle
- 12/04/03: Turkeys: much smarter than
you think
- 12/03/03: Los Angeles Times op-ed
on hen wood chipping incident and AVMA farmed animal welfare policy
- 12/03/03: UPC President Karen Davis
has a letter in the December 2003 issue of the magazine, The American Enterprise.
- 11/28/03: U.K. High Court Rejects Claim
Against Chickens' Suffering
- 11/26/03: UPC Turkey, Florence, Makes
the Front Page of the Eastern Shore Post November 26, 2003 Edition
- 11/26/03: UPC Letters in Today's NY
Times
- 11/24/03: BBB Rules in Favor of COK
re ACC Logo
- 11/23/03: The Los Angeles Times Has
a Great Article on the Wood-Chipper Episode
- 11/21/03: KFC ENDING ADS TOUTING HEALTHFULNESS
OF ITS FRIED CHICKEN
- 11/21/03: Tune In * Tune In * Tune In
- 11/19/03: Book Review: Animal Suffering
and The Holocaust: The Problem With Comparisons
- 11/17/03: United Poultry Concerns Reports
a Successful Student Protest Against the New Hampshire SPCA's Use of Suffering
Animals to Raise Shelter Funds
- 11/17/03: Winter - 2003 Poultry Press Now Available
- 11/13/03: United Poultry Concerns Urges the
NHSPCA to Serve Compassionate Meals Instead of Dead Chickens and Fish at
Its November 15 Fundraiser
- 11/12/03: Support United Poultry Concerns
By Doing Your Holiday Shopping Through iGive.com
- 11/12/03: Factory Farming Needs to End (by
Virgil Butler)
- 11/11/03: Live chickens to be tortured
in Spanish blood fiesta
- 11/09/03: Veterinarian Authorized Throwing
Thousands of Chickens into Wood Chippers
- 11/07/03: Protest to Dairy Queen - Again
- 11/07/03: Urge the New Hampshire SPCA
NOT to Serve Dead Animals
- 11/05/03: Washington lawmakers take
aim at cockfighting
- 11/05/03: Urge The People's Champions
Not to Harass Animals
- 10/29/03: Chickens Have Gotten Bigger
With Demand for Easy-to-Prepare Meals
- Genetic Engineering and Cloning of Domestic
Fowl
- 10/29/03: Karen Davis's Letter Regarding "PETA's
'Holocaust on Your Plate' campaign hits Denver"
- 10/21/03: DUCK FARM SUES ANIMAL ACTIVISTS
- 10/21/03: Whole Foods Market to Create
Humane Farming Standards
- 10/20/03: URGENT: DON'T LET
COCKFIGHTERS DETER CONGRESS FROM FUNDING ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL
- 10/20/03: UPC President Karen Davis
Will Speak at VegFest DC 2003 Sat. October 25
- 10/20/03: UNITED POULTRY CONCERNS
WILL HOLD 11 TH ANNUAL OPEN-HOUSE THANKSGIVING PARTY Sat November 22
- 10/14/03: Foie gras verdict of the Supreme
Court of Israel has been translated into English
- 10/14/03: Group With Cockfighting
Ties is Protested
- 10/14/03: UPC Letter in Baxter Bulletin
- 10/11/03: UPC Response to Kaparos
Article in The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
- 10/11/03: Duck protest held on New Haven
Green
- 10/07/03: Washington Post Article
on New USDA Poultry Categories
- 10/06/03: United Poultry Concerns
World Farm Animals Day Table Appears in the Eastern Shore News,
October 4, 2003
- 10/04/03: Human Atonement or Animal
Cruelty?
- 10/02/03: Book Review: Terrorists or Freedom
Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals
- 10/02/03: Karen Davis response in The
Nation to “Victory at McDonald’s”
- 9/29/03: United Egg Producers add
new molting feed alternative to Animal Care Guidelines
- 9/26/03: Investigators
Disclose Horrific Cruelty to Ducks by the U.S. Foie Gras Industry
- 9/25/03: United Poultry Concerns Marks World
Farm Animals Day on the Eastern Shore
- 9/24/03: Dairy Queen Announces Cancellation of
Animal Abuse Ad Due to Protests
- 9/12/03: Chicken killings traced to
cues inspiring kids to be cruel
- 9/09/03: Urgent Action Alert: Sadistic
Cruelty Alleged at a Tyson Slaughterhouse
- 9/090/3: 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
- 9/04/03: Vote
for Sugar for Sanctuary Animal of the Year
- 9/040/3: KFC’s Tortured, Crippled,
Suffering Chickens Speak Out for Chickens on World Farm Animals Day, October
2
- 9/03/03: United Poultry Concerns President
Karen Davis will speak at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary’s biggest
event of the year – and everyone’s invited!
- 9/02/03: Summer - Fall 2003 Poultry Press
- 9/02/03: Summer - Fall 2003 Poultry Press
(2mb pdf)
- 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
- 8/11/03: The Israeli Supreme Court: Force-feeding
of Geese and Ducks Violates the Law
- 8/11/03: United Poultry Concerns Will Host
a National Forum on Promoting Veganism. University of Colorado’s
Boulder Campus Welcomes Nationally Acclaimed Animal Rights Activists, August
16-17, in the Events Center
- 8/07/03: United Poultry Concerns’ Forum
on Promoting Veganism Why, Who, and Where?
- 7/28/03: Book Review: Plucked
and Burned
- 7/24/03: Buckeye
Chickens Need Your Help!
- 7/24/03: AVMA Protest Report
- 7/16/03: United Poultry Concerns Will
Join PETA Demonstrators Against the AVMA
- 7/14/03: Human Health and Animal
Welfare Will the McDonald’s policy cure cruelty to chickens?
- 7/10/03: UPC's Response to
the Wall Street Journal's Chicken Catching Machine Article
- 7/0/03: Poultry activists oppose
Guffey’s chicken fly event
- UPC's new booklet Poultry Slaughter:
The Need for Legislation
- 6/27/03: UPC public comments to the
New Jersey Department of Agriculture on its proposed “humane” standards
for farmed animals.
- 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: UPC Cited in Cleveland
Plain Dealer Mega Egg Farm Series
- 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.
- 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
- 5/29/03: SARS: Another Deadly Virus
From the Meat Industry
- 5/09/03: Swedish Animal Rights
Group Open Rescue
- 5/08/03: Karen Davis's Letter in The
New Yorker
- 5/06/03: Wesleyan
story in Hartford Courant (external link)
- 5/02/03: MAJOR STUDENT VICTORY FOR CHICKENS,
UPC HELPED
- Animal Liberation at
30 by Peter Singer (extrenal link)
- 4/30/03: Letters for Chickens are
Needed
“Killing Them Softly,” The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Column
One, Stephanie Simon, April 29, 2003
- 4/24/03: Animal Rights Activists
Liberate Battery Hens
- 4/22/03: DA asks for more information
in chicken chipping case
- 4/17/03: San Diego County DA to
Hold Briefing Today on Wood-Chipper Cruelty Case
- 4/16/03: Thirty Thousand Hens Were
Fed to Wood-Chipping Machines Urge Deputy District Attorney to File Cruelty
Charges Against Everyone Responsible
- 4/11/03: San Diego DA Won't
Prosecute Company That Threw 30,000 Hens Into Wood-Chipping Machines
- 4/10/03: Soy-Based Foods for Space
Developed at ISU NASA Center
- 4/09/03: Birds Factory-Farming Plight
- 4/09/03: United Poultry Concerns News
Advisories: Cockfighting Bill in New Mexico Goose-killing Episode in North
Carolina
- 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
- 04/01/03: United Poultry Concerns Calls on
Tyson Foods, KFC, and the National Chicken Council to Improve Bird Welfare
and Set Policies Prohibiting Deliberate Cruelty to Chickens
- Celebrate Easter Without Eggs
- 3/19/03:Animal Rights 2003
- 3/19/03: Tell the USDA
to Stop Reimbursing Cockfighters with U.S. Tax Dollars
- 3/18/03: Meet Henny, Join Chicken
Walk in Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Review of Dominion: The Power
of Man, the Suffering of Animals, And the Call to Mercy
- 3/12/03: "Great American MeatOut" event
to be staged by the Environmental Studies Association
- 3/12/03: Follow Up Letter to Secretary
of the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture
- 3/11/03: An Open Letter to President
Bush from United Poultry Concerns
- 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
- 3/06/03: MFA
Exposes Egg Industry Cruelty...Again (external link)
- 3/06/03: Saving
Hope, One of the Egg Industry's Tiniest Victims (external link)
- 3/06/03: Free range has become a
meaningless term
- 3/06/03: Organic Chicken May Not
Be All It's Cut Out To Be: Critics Say USDA Skirts Labeling Law
- 3/05/03: Letter sent by United
Poultry Concerns to Mitchell B. Wilson, Executive Director of Kappa Sigma
fraternity
- 3/03/03: Chickens Liberated from Maryland
Lab
- 3/03/03: Karen Davis's Letter to
San Diego County District Attorney Urging Prosecution of the Ward Egg Ranch
- 3/03/03: Letters Needed Immediately
Regarding Two Cases of Cruelty to Birds
- 2/27/03: Cockfighting Hurts More
Than Just Fighting Birds
- 2/24/03: Formal
Complaint, Whistleblower Tell of Deliberate Torture of Birds at Tyson
Plant
- 2/23/03: Wood chippers used
to reduce flocks at two poultry ranches
- 2/23/03: Chickens to Be Used by U.S. Military
in Iraq
What You Can Do to Protest
- 2/19/03: Chickens to Be Used
By U.S. Military to Detect Deadly Chemicals in Iraq
- 2/13/03: Tell President Bush to Treat
Pardoned Turkeys Better
- 2/11/03: Compassion for Animals Action
Symposium
- 2/10/03: Urge Baking Companies to Include
Vegan Alternatives to Eggs in Their Package Instructions and Recipes
- UPC President Karen Davis’s
Letter in the March 2003 Atlantic Monthly
- 2/05/03: United Poultry Concerns (UPC)
and the AVAR Criticize the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s
Approach to Eradicating Exotic Newcastle Disease in Birds
- 2/03/03: Karen Davis Presents “An
Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry”
- 1/28/03: Australian Broiler
Chicken Rescue
- Poultry Slaughter - Ritual Poultry Slaughter
- 1/15/03: UPC Book Review: The Dominion of Love:
Animal Rights According to the Bible
- Give Us Something To Crow About This Holiday Season!
- 1/8/2002:UPC Letter To Debbie
Vickers Re: Protest Chicken Abuse on NBC's "Tonight Show."
- 1/6/2003: News Release - New Brochure Takes
A Chilling Look at the Fate of Birds in Laboratories
- New Brochure: The
Experimental Use of Chickens and Other Birds in Biomedical and Agricultural
Research
- 1/2/03: Action Alert - Protest Chicken
Abuse on NBC's "Tonight Show."
