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LET THE CHICKENS SING
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When chickens have clean homes,
they sing.
The chickens in factory farms
never sing.
The chickens in factory farms
cannot ever
spread their wings.
The chickens in factory farms
live in a state of
constant suffering.
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TEN DEGREES UP
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She lifted her vision
up 10 degrees
and a world of sky
became the world of sea
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METAL
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Still there are
some horses
who feel the freezing
bit of metal in their
mouths in January
and the hot metal
of July
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BITTER FRUIT

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He said bitter fruit.
Was he speaking
of the effects of
negative action
.. or the coffee bean
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COUNTERPOINT
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The morning symphony
of joy.. as day breaks
over birds' chirps
is counterpointed everywhere
by the screams
of animals slaughtered
for human appetite
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LABOR INTENSIVE MURDER
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Humans with axes
snuff turkey clucking
Then comes
disemboweling and
next the plucking.as

WAS THE WORM BAD

Was the worm bad was the question

5 year old Naomi asked her grandfather

who had baited the hook and

was trying to teach her the art of

fish suffocation

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THE FOLLOWING ARE FACTS ABOUT THE NATION'S
FOURTH LARGEST FACTORY FARM: 14 MILLION CAPTIVE CHICKENS

* A Marseilles Ohio woman said chickens do not sing
at Buckeye. R Thomas, a nonagenarian teacher of peace,
said that free range chickens are happy.

THE BIRDS
1. The Buckeye Egg Farm chickens were buried alive
by bulldozers, it appeared to those watching from the
sidelines, after a tornado destroyed 3 buildings and trapped
the birds in smashed metal cages.
2. The chickens, half of them, were alive after
  9 days without food or water, though featherless many
had died in the cold. Forced molting is common in factory
farms, creating such featherless conditions.
http://www.upc-online.org http://www.eggcruelty.com
http://www.mercyforanimals.org
3. They get cancer from the constant stress of crowding.
4. They are debeaked with machines. Sometimes their tongues
also get caught in the machine.
5. When electricity goes out at factory farms, millions
die as the metal sheds become 140 degrees in the summer
or metallic freezing coffins in the winter.
6. Every egg a human being eats from a factory farm
represents 32 hours of chicken slavery. (Art Margolis)
7.  One woman found as she prepared eggs for her family
.. a skillet full of blood, beaks, and claws..
from a fertilized egg. "Never Again" she said, and never
again did she crack an egg.

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HEALTH HAZARDS TO HUMAN BEINGS
1.  An Ohio EPA woman sank neck deep in chicken waste.. her life was saved by her grabbing on to overhead pipes.
2. Buckeye's CEO Leininger is giving cattle parts to the chickens. Robert F Kennedy is heading one of 3 groups
suing the corporation. This practice causes Mad Cows to
be transmitted making Mad Chickens. If salmonella can go
through a mother and the eggshell to the egg, and if
prions can go from buried cows into the grass, it is possible
that Mad Chickens can transmit prions making Mad Eggs.
http://www.mad-cow.org http://www.maddeer.org http://www.madcowboy.comj http://groups.msn.com/madfish9
Buckeye eggs go unmarked into donut mixes, cake mixes,
are marketed under many brands around the nation.
3. Ohio Wesleyan University biology students found high levels
of salmonella in the water from the chicken waste.
4. Illegal spills of insecticide have impacted the waters
of Ohio and elsewhere.
5. Chicken stress causes leukosis, a human chauvinist
  word for leukemia when chickens have it. Those eating
  the chicken can contract leukemia.
6. Each chicken's egg is 300 mg of cholesterol, as high
as beef or the flesh of cows.
7. Ohio PIRG contracted a judgment against Buckeye for
  selling 6 month old eggs.
8. Concerned Citizens Of Central Ohio (Ritchie Laymon
active with the group) is concerned that once again
a Biblical plague of flies is in the community.
Others say the flies are God's way of processing
the mountain ranges of waste create by these Auschwitzes
for chickens.
9. An official of CSPI stated on the Diane Rehm Show of NPR
that factory farming conditions of extreme crowding create more bacteria in chickens and that animals are arriving at slaughterhouses caked
with filth throughout their feathers. http://www.cspinet.org
ENVIRONMENT
1. Each egg is 120 gallons of production.
LABOR
Toledo groups sued Buckeye for child labor.
http://www.ufw.org
The Ohio Farmers'
Union, like coalitions of small farmers in most other
states, has organized against factory farms.

GOVERNMENT
1. Republican Senator Voinovich when governor invited Buckeye to Ohio after Anton
Pohlman was barred from practicing in Germany because
he had nearly killed workers with illegal nicotine insecticides
and because he had abused animals.
2. The Republican dominated Ohio Dept of Agriculture is
allowing the 14 million chicken facility to operate without
a permit. The Ag dept. says Buckeye deserves due process,
when Buckeye has a near record number of lawsuits,
and a 19 million dollar judgment was already rendered
against the company, which then declared bankruptcy and
reorganized.
HEALTH HAZARDS OF CHICKENS AND EGGS IN GENERAL

1. Chicken flesh has high amounts of uric acid or trioxypurine,
  more arthritis generating than any other substance as
it crystallizes in needle formation around the joints,
  stimulates the heartbeat even more than dioxypurine or
caffein.
2. Chicken flesh like all flesh is constipating.
3. Eggs are a major percentage of the 97% of fatal food
  poisonings caused annually by animal products.
4. Ecoli or colon bacteria, studied by Wm Harvey Kellogg, MD,
  grows in all cadavers. Thermophilic and creiophilic
  bacteria survive boiling and freezing.
5. Cholesterol, 300 mg in each egg, account for heart
  disease. http://www.pcrm.org 7000 vegan MD's
RELIGION
1. 31 Anglian bishops have taken a stand against factory farms calling them
" systems which cruelly frustrate nearly all (the animals') needs"
To distribute their pamphlet at your church
write FAWN Box 40
Holmfirth Huddersfield HD7 lQY UK 01484 688650
Fax 01484 689408

(The poem "Labor Intensive Murder" was added Nov 25, 2015)

LITANY OF NEEDED CHANGE

New Zealand butchers sheep Saudi Arabia snuffs camels rway butchers whales All countries murder mammals ivu dot org
Tibet unsafe for yaks Russia traps the sable
Vietnam puts dead cats on the dinner table.
UK still crucifies fox France de-legs countless frogs
Germany forcefeeds gees Korea still eats dogs
US tortures primates Japan knifes the porpoise Nepal savages goats
Galapagos slays the tortoise
Australia murders kangaroos Mexico abuses donkeys
Canada sadistic to seals Zaire eats most monkeys alv dot org.au
 S Africa most brutal to lions China worst to sows Spain serial killer of bulls Brazil murders most cowsVietnam puts dead cats on the dinner table. UK still crucifies fox France de-legs countless frogs
Germany forcefeeds gees Korea still eats dogs
US tortures primates Japan knifes the porpoise Nepal savages goats
Galapagos slays the tortoise
Australia murders kangaroos Mexico abuses donkeys
Canada sadistic to seals Zaire eats most monkeys alv dot org.au
S Africa most brutal to lions China worst to sows Spain serial killer of bulls Brazil murders most cows

-saiom shriver-