Isn't it enough that I love them?
Posted on 04/28/2005 7:37:48 AM PDT by dukeman
Attention Washington DC Area Residents & Others
Join UPC at the University of Maryland May 4 and Takoma Park May 8
On International Respect for Chickens Day, UPC will leaflet on behalf of chickens in front of McKeldon Library at the University of Maryland, College Park on Wednesday, May 4 from Noon – 2 PM. Brochures and posters will be provided along with our banner proclaiming INTERNATIONAL RESPECT FOR CHICKENS DAY - A DAY TO CELEBRATE CHICKENS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Please join us in front of the library!
On Sunday, May 8, we will leaflet in the Takoma Park Town Square in the vicinity of the Roscoe the Rooster Memorial Statue and the 7th-Day Adventist Church from Noon – 2 PM. As everyone knows, the Roscoe statue honors a rooster who for years was tenderly cared for by Takoma Park residents until his death in 1999. In 2000, UPC president Karen Davis sat on the committee that selected the artist and helped to raise funds to erect the statue through our generous membership. Sadly, while Takoma Park honors Roscoe as the town mascot who "made us smile and brightened our days," this community, which has traditionally embraced peace-loving, anti-war, vegetarian values, is retreating to a mainstream consumer identity and dolling up the downslide as wanting to be "part of the revolution for lovingly and humanely raised and culled meat" (Washington Post 3/20/05). ROSCOE NEEDS OUR HELP. PLEASE JOIN US AT THE TOWN SQUARE ON MOTHERS DAY, SUNDAY MAY 8 FROM NOON – 2 PM. Next to the endearing Roscoe statue there will be a farmers market plying the flesh of dead chickens and other innocent victims of human violence. We’ll have brochures, posters, and our banner. We look forward to standing out as the true friends of Roscoe. For more information, call 757-678-7875 or email karen@upc-online.org.
Here's more....
One Lucky Turkey Enjoys Vegan Feast
One lucky turkey will ham it up at vegan feast,” by Linda McNatt, appeared on the front page of The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 2004. Here is the charming article, edited slightly for space:
“Florence the turkey has thrived since she came to live at Karen Davis’ bird sanctuary on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. She’ll be an honored guest at Davis’ annual vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday.
“MACHIPONGO - Sssshhhhhh. Don’t mention the T word around Florence today. It might upset the plump, white turkey. Here, at her home in this tiny, rural town on the Eastern Shore, Thanksgiving is just another day at the bird sanctuary. . . . In fact, she will be an honored guest at a vegetarian dinner at the sanctuary that is also home to several ducks and more than 100 chickens. Florence is the lone turkey.
“‘Oh, we’ll let her come in the house and set bowls of food and water on the floor for her,’ said Karen Davis, president of United Poultry Concerns and an avid animal activist. ‘That way, people can get to know her.’
“Davis, a former English professor at the University of Maryland, believes that everyone should get to know their feathered friends better, especially the kind that often meet their end at processing plants. But none of that for Florence. The quiet, curious turkey was one of three rescued from a plant in Maryland when she was a youngster. . . .
“Florence and her cage mate, Boris, were sent to live with Davis at her bird sanctuary almost five years ago. But Boris died two years later of a respiratory infection typical of mass-produced birds. Florence, however, has flourished. ‘She’s very hardy,’ Davis said.
“Her love of fowl began in the mid-1980s after she met a chicken she named Viva [see pp. 10-12 in this issue of PoultryPress]. . . .
“Even before that, by the early 1970s, Davis had changed her eating habits and become a strict vegetarian. Her diet doesn’t include any animal products. In 1990, she started United Poultry Concerns, a nonprofit organization that addresses the treatment of domestic fowl in meat production. In 1998, she looked for a small farm and found it among the poultry processing plants on the Eastern Shore.
“Many of the chickens at the sanctuary were rescued from local highways after falling off trucks on the way to the plants, Davis said. At the sanctuary, Florence gets along just fine. . . . In the fenced yard, Florence takes dust baths, flopping her wings and feathers in the dirt, and sun bathes. She appears to enjoy her status as the only one of her kind on the farm. For a turkey, she’s rather quiet, Davis said. Florence prefers to observe and listen, cocking her head one way and then the other to consider the world around her.
“This Sunday, she’ll be the center of attention. For the past several years, Davis has opened her home and her farm after the holiday for a not-so-traditional potluck vegan meal. The Pennsylvania native has had anywhere from 15 to 50 people join her, she said. . . . They’ll be eating things like Mrs. Gobble-Good’s Golden Brown Pie, a recipe made of lentils, carrots, celery, onions and diced potatoes that Davis includes in a brochure she hands out about the plight of turkeys produced for meat. . . .”
There is nothing better than properly fried chicken! I guess you could say that I love chicken!!!!!!!!
So should I go to Popeyes or KFC that day for lunch?
ok, no one choke one on that day
Please don't choke any chickens today.
Saw Brit Hume yesterday talking about this. The nutcases were arguing among other things that chickens are smart.
Maybe in comparison to the nutcases...
Isn't it enough that I love them?
I' like to wish everyone a wholehearted and sincere Happy Respect-fot-Chickens day!
I'm sorry I don't hhave yall's gifts. Like we do Christmas, in my family we usually do our celebration/get-together on Respect-for-Chickens Eve every year, as opposed to the actual day.
Bones
My sister really liked Bojangles in South Carolina and it was NOT like the filth that is passed off as Bojangles here in NY. As for myself, I am eschewing the flesh of chicken for health reasons.
"I love chickens, Eddy!" - Ed of "Ed, Edd and Eddy" 
Chick-Fil-A here I come!
How about Church's? They have the best fried chicken in Topeka, bar none.
Who has the recipes?
By the way, just to exhibit how whacked out Takoma Park, Maryland is, it's city council, a number of years ago, declared it a nuclear-free zone. Ah, those were the days.
Most of the folks who live there think that history halted in 1968. Just hit a wall.
If any city or town in America would be likely to have a statue to a rooster, Takoma Park is it.
What ain't fruits is nuts, in Takoma Park.
I will observe this by have in 20 piece bucket of original recipe KFC for my families diner tonight.
Man, that recipe sounds good!
>>>>Sounds like PETA, stinging from their loss to California's dairy industry, are now turning their attention to poultry.
They started after the poultry farmers back in 2001 (well, agressively). They are trying to keep farmers and breeders from being able to ship poultry and eggs.
http://www.birdshippers.com/index.html
Nope its white or dark, chicken breast, chicken fingers, chicken stips, popcorn chicken, chicken wings, chicken fillet sandwhich...so many choices so little time!
Ingredients
Instructions
Cover barley with water and soak for 3 hours. Cut up fowl and season with salt and pepper. Put pieces of fowl in a buttered large pot,placing leeks around the side. add barley and the water. Cover pan and gently simmer soup for 4 hours or until barley and chicken is tender.Note: if quick cooking barley is used, add at the end of cooking time. Sometimes prunes are added to this soup. This is one of the most traditional Scottish recipes, introduced in 1603 when James V1 of Scotland became King James I of England.
LMAO! Things just get more absurd as the days get long! Yum, fried chicken, putting my lunch order in now!!! LOL!!
These chickens she is referring to are specially bred meat chickens. They are bred to do nothing but eat and grow and by the 6 weeks old they are meant to be butchered. They're bred to grow so big so fast that their legs and circulatory system never catch up and the their legs break underneath them and they have heart attacks and die if they aren't butchered. They rarely live longer than 10 weeks even under the best of circumstances...
When you buy chicken at the store or restaurant, that's the breed you're getting.
I have pet laying hens, which are absolutely nothing like meat chickens...they are much less bulky. There is NO WAY a meat chicken can be a pet.
Typical commercial laying hen:
Meat chicken.
Is it really that good? There's a Church's not too far from me but I've never tried it. My favorite fried chicken is at a family style restaurant in Lancaster, PA called Good and Plenty. Even my Grandmother couldn't make fried chicken that good.
Chicken!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My Great Grandmother grew up on a farm in Louisiana. They had fried chicken every Sunday afternoon after church. They would start cooking at about 1 pm. At 12 pm that day the chickens were still walking around the barnyard. She showed me how to ring the neck of a fat fryer in two jerks of a hand. Nothing in this world beats fresh fried chicken.
To all posters, I say make May 4th your "Eat Lots of Chicken Day"
Do you think part of the weakness in those meat chickens is because they are raised in small cages where they can't move? If you raised one loose, would it grow up differently? I ask because some of them must grow to adulthood, or they'd have no breeders, and I am sure in the not-so-distant past, most farms that had a few chickens around kept meat chickens also for butchering at their convenience, perhaps much longer than several weeks.
Sure I respect chicken. Now, please pass the gravy and biscuits.
Now I'm getting hungry for chicken. :) Oh well, I have turkey slices, that's close enough. ;)
Post your favorite recipes here!
I'll start:
CHICKEN SOUP
1 3-lb pullet, cut in quarters
4 carrots
2 parsnips
1 large onion
4 celery stalks
1 bunch parsley
1 bunch dill
1 TBSP salt
1 tsp pepper
Put chicken and vegetables in large (about 10-qt) stock pot. Add salt and pepper. Fill with water and bring to a boil. When boiling, skim off the crud. Lower flame to simmer and cook for about 4 hours.
Serve with matzah balls.
MATZAH BALLS
2/3 c. matzah meal
1/4 c. oil
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. salt
Mix together oil, eggs and salt. Add matzah meal to make a soft dough. Form little balls about the size of walnuts and drop into boiling soup. They will puff up.
Enjoy.
Seems like the D.C. area is a magnet for bird-brains.
I will give this some thought while I watch several dismembered birds slowly turning over the charcoal grill turning a golden brown.
The next best fast food fried chicken here is Church's. They double dip it then deep fat fry. I think it is much better than KFC ever was and you can get 2 pieces of dark meat on Monday and Tuesday for 1.06. Can't beat that!
In celebration, Larry Flynt has released a statement promising to respect chickens in the morning.
No, these guys aren't kept in little cages...they are usually kept in big barns. They eat and drink and run around free, although very crowded.
They don't breed true. They're a crossbreed, called a Cornish Cross. These are commercial meat chickens, but anyone can raise a batch of them.
Farmers had dual purpose chickens..Benny Hen and Puffy are large egg layers, could be dual purpose chickens (and rooster Buff Orpingtons probably are pretty routinely butchered just because who needs more than a rooster or two around? LOL!!
So a farmer would raise a dual purpose chicken, keep one roo for mating and then cull all the other roos that result from eggs laid for meat purposes. Does that make sense?
He wouldn't let them get too old though, cause they would get tough. But you're right, they'd likely be older than these commercial meat chickens.
I have heard of people going in and getting "hens" to raise and then after a very short time realizing they accidentally got some of the Cornish X chickens. (It's hard to tell when they are chicks). Also, I think when fairs used to give away chicks, that is what they gave away. It's humane to butcher them, inhumane in my opinion to watch them suffer. They suffer from heart failure, if their legs hold out.
You can buy dual-purpose "free range" chicken at natural food stores.
So our meat chickens are a freak of nature ;~D
Doesn't surprise me.... I'm surprised we haven't yet figured out a way to grow them boneless in a lab. I'm sure someone has tried ;~D
Woo Hoo! I'll have a Family sized batch of KFC Popcorn Chicken!
It’s not as spicy as you’d think.
Or you could do the “Greek” style chicken.
Pour olive oil (~1/4 cup) in a bowl, squeeze in the juice from a couple of lemons, salt, couple of minced garlic cloves, and a little chopped up rosemary and/or oregano if you want.
Mix in the chicken pieces and let them marinate a little – it really doesn’t matter how long. Usually 10 – 20 minutes or so (while the grill/oven heats up).
Cook them however you want. Grill/broil/bake. Baste occasionally with the marinade if you want.
That one is pretty good… easy/quick. Plus it was convenient because we *always* had garlic and oil – plus had lemon tree, rosemary, oregano, basil, mint – all right outside the back door.
Greeks use that oil/lemon juice/salt/garlic type of marinade for everything – fish, lamb, beef, chicken – whatever.
Yep. And while mom was inside fooling around with the chicken we’d be out on the porch taking turns cranking the ice cream maker.
I hear chickens taste like chick.... - Ah, never mind. B-D
YOU ( and every one else here) needs THIS link!
Fresh spices, fragrant and cheap!
http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/shophome.html
ANd they have recipes in every catalogue!
thank you for your recipes!
:-)
It really is very efficient. The growth rate versus the amount of food fed is supposedly very good.
I'd like to raise a bunch of meat chickens someday, but it might push the limits of my neighbors tolerance!
I love to talk about chickens...almost as much as VWs, you know...
:-)
I know you do! Can't wait till May 4! You'll have to make a special party for your girls, with pictures!
Hi, Hair.
4-H PING!
Bring recipes!
I have the greatest respect for chickens everyday...........in fact I have so much respect for chickens that my closest neighbors are about 150,000 of them!!!!!
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