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37 chicken haiku attempts





CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO



30,000 baby chicks

are sent through a Ward Egg

Farm chipper

by workers too tired to continue

individual strangling.

http://www.upc-online.org



CONNECTICUT



In Connecticut, Michael Ross

who strangled 8 women is murdered

by the state. As a little

boy his father forced him to strangle baby

chicks on his father's poultry farm



KENTUCKY



Kentucky based Yum foods

owns KFC whose birds have their

throats slit. They are often dropped

alive into boiling water.

http://www.kfccruelty.com



ARKANSAS



In Arkansas, a million chickens

die as the electricity goes out

and the metal sheds become

140 degree ovens

http://www.meatout.org



WISCONSIN



Senator Russ Feingold seeks to

remove minimal animal protection

for chickens, so that baby chicks

may be sent classified as mail...

smashed on loading docks

... for the regulations say

they can be shipped in cardboard boxes

.. dying, some of thirst or freezing or

stress

http://www.vrg.org





MAINE



DeCoster Farms, of Turner, Maine

was fined a pittance: $50,000 in June 1988

for nearly 200 labor law infractions. In

in 1992 their virtual slavery of

100 workers from Central America was exposed.

http://www.worldanimalnet.org



OHIO



At Ohio Fresh Egg in Croton,

one half million chickens are bulldozed

alive into graves after a tornado

destroys their metal shed. They

were alive 9 days without food or

water in their tornado smashed

cages before the final suffocation.

*****

(Buckeye became Agrigeneral and then

Ohio Fresh Egg)

http://www.poetwill.org





VIRGINIA



In Newport News, a little woman

chicken's head is severed and

comes out whole as a McNugget







IOWA



Senators Charles Grassley and Tom

Harkin join

Feingold.. baby chicks males

classified as commercial mail



MARYLAND



In Salisbury Maryland

at the Perdue slaughterhouse

cranes dropp boxes full

of chickens into the street..

some die immediately

.. some run in traffic and

are turned into pancakes



PENNSYLVANIA



Cars are lined up behind

a chicken truck.. chickens

crammed into crates

their broken necks and wings

flapping in the wind.



IDAHO



Factory farms

buy older laying

hens.

Every egg represents

32 hours the mother

was held captive in a cage.



SOUTH CAROLINA



Chickens are fed back

the boiled feathers of

their slaughtered sisters.



TEXAS



Chickens are fed

as elsewhere.. the

waste of animals

mixed in with grain.

It is called wastelage.



OHIO



An EPA worker sinks neck

deep into quicksand like chicken

waste. Her life is saved

as she grabs onto pipes overhead.



TENNESSEE



The debeaking of chickens

so that they will not peck

each other to death from

the overcrowding.. sometimes

catches the chicken's tongue

in the debeaker.



MICHIGAN



Chickens live their entire

lives without spreading

their wings.. or taking

a stretch.



WYOMING



Chickens freeze to death

after given forced molting

chemicals.



COLORADO



Every egg requires 120 gallons

of production water.



MASSACHUSETTS



Every egg served in a hospital

is 275 mg to 300 mg of

brain and heart artery clogging

cholesterol.



MINNESOTA



Fixing eggs for her family

a housewife sees a skillet

full of beaks, claws,

and blood.. from fertilized

eggs.



GEORGIA



Eggs amount for

a large percentage of food

poisoning cases, yet the CDC

runs no warning public service spots.



LOUISIANA AND ELSEWHERE



Chickens are given cattle

parts.. which generates

Mad Chicken or Avian Spongiform

Encephalopathy. The USDA

does not enforce the law.



NEW MEXICO



An old man lies in pain

with arthritis, as uric

acid or trioxypurine from

a chicken's flesh has

crystallized around his joints

in needle formation



http://www.pcrm.org



MISSOURI



Flies are sent by God

to process the 'biblical

plague' of chicken waste

in factory farms.





VERMONT



The use of female hormones

in the food and the

constant stress from living

in 24 hour a day light

and crowding.. create cancer.



WASHINGTON DC



Easter chicks for protection

are taken by children to

the zoo.. and are fed

behind the scenes to snakes



NEW YORK



Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander

ends his KFC commercials..

after viewing PETA films

of chicken slaughterhouses





SINGING



A woman neighbor to a factory

farm said the chickens she

raised used to sing when

they were given fresh straw.

The chickens she lives near

she says.. never sing.



WASHINGTON DC



Ronald Reagan passed legislation

to double the speed of slaughterhouse

lines.. cancer ridden or dead chickens whiz past

inspectors.



GERMANY



A man is barred from

farming because workers

in his chicken factory farm

nearly died from his illegal

use of nicotine insecticide. He is

convicted also of animal cruelty.

He is invited by Senator Voinovich's

red carpet (bloodsoaked) to Ohio.



NEBRASKA



Fish in Kentucky rivers and lakes

show sexual deformities

as factory farm urine containing

female hormones pervades waters.



OKLAHOMA



At a Tyson franchisee poultry

farm and many other places,

the chickens are so crowded their

claws grow under the wire mesh

making them immobile

while above them swirl their

molted feathers like a mobile



MARYLAND



Frank Purdue ordered

as a little boy to

kill his pet chick

as his father prepared

him for a life of avicide



Later he would give millions

of dollars to the Univ of Maryland

in return for ther beginning

a course teaching students

to raise nurture and then kill

and skin rabbits.



In addition his Eastern shore

short line railroads are

paid for with taxes stolen

from the people of Maryland.





ALABAMA AND ELSEWHERE



Baby chick males in other

places are dropped into

bins of swirling knives called eviscerators..

for in the chicken business it will

be women spending their lives in cages



EVERYWHERE



In many hospices everywhere

people lie dying of leukemia..

professionals

label chicken cancer leukosis

to obscure its transmission to

human beings who eat them



UTAH



1/2 million chickens are

crammed in at just 1 of

Utah's many factory farms.





GENEVA SWITZERLAND



Roche markets Tamiflu for

the socalled avian flu which

in many cases is Mad Chicken Disease





Many of these descriptions of one state

apply to all places there are factory farms.





http://www.keeper.org for R F K's lawsuit

http://www.upc-online.org

http://www.meatout.org

http://www.madcowboy.com for the danger of giving cattle

parts to chickens

http://www.mad-cow.org http://www.maddeer.org

http://www.pcrm.org 1000 MD's say avoid animal flesh and products

http://www.eggcruelty.com

http://www.kfccruelty.com





. mad chickens

. cattle parts

. leukosis

. ecoli

. uric acid

. salmonella through shell hell

. industrial accidents

. kinds of food poisoning

. kinds of food poisoning

http://www.epa.gov

http://www.mad-cow.org

http://www.eggcruelty.com

http://www.postpoems.com/members/truths

http://www.upc-online.org

http://www.meatout.com





. mad chickens

. cattle parts

. leukosis

. ecoli

. uric acid

. salmonella through shell hell