A GIRL's VERY FIRST CHARITY,
CONCEPT- NO MORE CRUEL FACTORY FARMING OF CHICKENS!My lovely Vegan pal GEOFF lives in an RV with his four dogs. They sleep under the same sheets. This compassionate spacecase is a west Los Angeles itinerant massage therapist and lifelong meditator. Without difficulty, as he wanders the beaches, he finds clients and can make a very good unfiched living.
GEOFF became famous recently as being DONOR 110, a spermgiver. Google that up as it hit every news channel. He seems to have about 50 kids walking the planet, many in their thirties who have contacted him. He's an addition to the race, believe you me, not only being a descendent of Washington Bluebloods but also a mystical, Hermetic messenger for all anti-animal-cruelty movements.
Guess why? As a child, his parents sent him away to boarding school, making him leave his dog behind. One night, he dreamed the dog was hanging in a tree calling his name. He left the dorm at 2 am, hitchhiked back home, and in the woods, found his dog hanging from a tree, barely alive. He rescued him.
It was Geoff who first told me about the suffering of chickens in factory farms, how they "live" cooped wing to wing, without possibility of much movement, beaks removed to prevent pecking/ fighting. And this for a bird that wanders the yard happily all day pecking and flapping wings. So in a condition of utter TORTURE. Those factory farms are the Guantanamos of the bird world.
Geoff pointed out to me how easy it would be to create a FUROR with a tiny weeny BIRD sized CHARITY that just did P.R. and parties to do the P.R. I agreed knowing Geoff was the king of furor and any tip from him on hot publicity would work bigtime! So I wrote you a press release. Get started! Give your first chicken party for the press with a comic in a chicken costume there and a lot of downloaded chicken farm pictures! PETA will give them to you! Their CHICKEN FARM P.R. HERE.
GEOFF's PRESS RELEASE
There are over 1 1/2 billion egg laying hens in America. Upwards of 99% are living in conditions which constitute horrific cruelty to animals. In the USA, The Animal Welfare Act, which governs the humane treatment of animals excludes animals intended for food consumption which is pretty dumb as we're eating the most tortured meat on the planet and wondering why a third of us die of cancer. What we need is a spokesperson for chickens everywhere, who can visit any game, supermarket or sporting event. PUCK PUCK the CHICKEN as a spokeshen might be created, by some young energetic theatre people, to change factory farming in America, starting with egg-laying chickens.
The proposed activism on behalf of hens and roosters has two aspects:
#1: a Public Relations campaign starting at any ballgame or supermarket opening or public parade, (In LA that would be the Pasadena Doo-Dah parade) with posters and skits geared to educate the American public as to their options, egg-wise.
Lately, consumers can choose caged or cage-free eggs at the supermarket. The introduction of cage-free eggs into super markets started mid-1994 when the Humane Society of the United States placed a flyer in major newspapers around the country informing people of the cruelty involved in caged chicken farms, asking readers to demand that their grocers carry cage-free eggs. By virtue of this ad campaign alone, a new market was created. Prior to that, only healthfood stores carried these eggs. That shows us that a public relations campaign is the first thing needed to create evolution in the chicken industry.
#2: A SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ARM would be required to conduct ongoing research on how to raise healthier, more productive chickens, who lay better eggs cage-free. We want to write a pamphlet describing university-proven methods which we hope to teach. The scientific arm of this group would show chicken farmers how to switch over to the new and preferred method of raising chickens.
Two studies might be assembled: one of chicken farming as it is, the second of how it could be. New, scientific methods can be utilized to get rid of bacterial diseases which are currently so prevalent at chicken farms. Instead of the present chemicals, natural products would be used instead of artificial feeds, organic feeds. Instead of polluted municipality water, purified water. And instead of wire cages where birds are stacked standing on steel wire floors, unable to turn around, asphyxiating from fumes, in close sheds---wide open spaces where they are free to forage for bugs and natural food as well as eat delicious grain. These new methods would reduce suffering in the animals and create a healthier, superior egg.
#3 A highly PUBLICIZABLE SPY ARM that Goes into CHICKEN FARMS to check if they're really cage-free as most are NOT: This is the arm that gets you a lot of ink!!
#4. TYPISTS who do PUBLIC RELATIONS and press releases. This is required to create public awareness as to what is going on in the chicken/egg industry. Consumer demand will create the new supply of cage-free eggs. Our job is simply to raise the percentage of cage-free vs. caged eggs being sold and to teach the consumer of the different LEVELS. It isn't just caged or cage-free. There are birds in interim conditions of torture. Half tortured, as it were--but currently, under 1/2 % of the eggs sold are cage-free. Through publicity combined with the flyers you give out at parade, and your press conference, we can raise that percentage up to 10% or more the first year.
Since there are about 400 billion days of Aushwitz-like suffering a year for egglayers in the USA only, a 10% rise in the % of eggs from caged to cage-free birds would translate into 50 billion days per year of Auschwitz like incarceration into a happy normal life for the average, industrial bird.
A modern egg farm is not the bucolic, grassy grandma's farm we imagined as children. The eggs we eat come from hellish, tin barracks built around thousands of wire cages stacked on top of each other, longer than football fields, with shelf after shelf made of wire mesh holding birds who have never seen the light of day. It is as if you were confined in an elevator for your entire life. Birds react to this kind of imprisonment by literally going bird-zerk. They peck one another to death, hence breeders cruelly de-beak them at birth.
The public HAS to be made to see that a bird is a sentient being. We are eating products from tortured animals. No wonder cancer in the populace has grown by a factor of l00 times since 1900. What subtle hormones of fear, rage and depression are in them? What is known is that eggs of cage-free, grain fed birds have much LESS saturated fat. They also have the delicious taste which eggs in cage-free France have.
Soon it will become the gourmet thing to serve cage-free cruelty-free eggs. It will be CHIC not to eat eggs from factory birds. And when it's chic to have cage-free eggs onwards to more humane treatment of all animals.
#5 PARTIES & OTHER POSSIBLE IDEAS: a P.R. event to launch this, a CHICKEN BENEFIT, a "SAVE THE LAYERS" televised comedy show with someone caring--like Robin Williams, or A BIRDZERK Chicken Night at the Comedy Store, an evening of CHICKEN jokes. We will link the concept of non-suffering procurement of eggs to laughter and joy.
College writing classes might be utilized to write/ submit articles for major magazines, photograph small children playing with pet chickens. Speakers could be booked on t.v. talk shows with chicken stories.
We could create a famous PUCK PUCK the CHICKEN 'spokesbird,' to attend sporting events, races talk shows or even super markets as well as the Doodah parade.
We want to do for the BIRD what other activist groups did for baby COWS. Veal is now a dirty word in Beverly Hills. Mink is a dirty word in New York!
Pressure can be put on the super market chains and egg distributors. Let's do what PETA did to stop MINK and SABLE. Fur is a dirty word in all of America. A publicity campaign did the job! Even if someone NEVER gave a hoot about a chicken, they'd find the ad campaign an amusing thing to listen to. It would sensitize people to the plight of chickens who are intelligent, loving birds --with feelings.
To inspire American activists, we can utilize documentary film of Cage-Free farms. In some European countries there there are laws that prevent farmers from mistreating their livestock. We are aiming at legislation like that, laws that enforces humane treatment of farm animals. In the end, though, it's the Consumer in the marketplace that will be the deciding factor. Human Health may be the thing that turns the consumer around. There was a scientific study where a chicken was liberated from one of those drumstick factories. This hen had been shot up with all the anti-biotics that the industry uses for fryers. She was given a rooster friend and laid an egg. The baby was born with multiple birth defects! THESE ARE THE EGGS YOU ARE EATING!
More Scientific studies will be conducted and documented by this P.R. Arm that will work for existing organizations like the Humane Society of the U.S., PETA and Puck Puck the CHICKEN.
POSSIBLE FUNDERS- The Hollywood film community gets behind all worthy causes, via benefits and we are located in Los Angeles. CAGE-FREE egg companies will welcome the attention and media spotlight as their egg product would instantly become best-sellers in the marketplace. AVANTI AVIAN ANGELS! LIBERATE THE HEN, our SWEET CHICKEN sisters FROM their crowded prisons.
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