United Poultry Concerns www.upc-online.org Volume 30, Number 2 United Poultry Concerns Annual Report for 2019 aware of the ways poultry are used, and to promote the compassionate and respectful treatment of these birds and the benefits of a vegan diet and lifestyle. UPC conducts full-time educational programs and campaigns through our quarterly magazine Poultry Press, our Website at www.UPC-online.org, and our chicken sanctuary in Machipongo, Virginia.

United Poultry Concerns maintains a permanent office, sanctuary and education center at our headquarters at 12325 Seaside Road, Machipongo, Virginia 23405. We UPC outdoor aviary photo by Richard Cundari respond daily to Internet and telephone requests for help with bird-care problems, student projects, alternatives to Federal ID: 52-1705678 classroom chick-hatching projects, and numerous other communications on the care, treatment and abuse of A Financial Statement is available upon written domestic fowl. We are grateful to all of our members and request to: Officer of Consumer Affairs, PO Box 1163, supporters for enabling us to fulfill our mission in 2019. Richmond, VA 23218. From all of us at United Poultry Concerns, thank you for your support! Officers & Directors 2019 , PhD, President-Director Highlights of Our Activities and Accomplishments in Liqin Cao, Vice President-Director 2019 Franklin Wade, Vice President-Director Veda Stram, Vice President-Director For a complete listing of UPC’s action alerts, news, Debbie Donovan, Secretary Treasurer-Director photos & activities in 2019, please visit What’s New 2019 at www.upc-online.org/whatsnew/2019.html. Staff 2019 Karen Davis, PhD, President UPC Sanctuary - 2019 Liqin Cao, Vice President Franklin Wade, Vice President, Website Administrator & Adopted 40 wonderful chickens in need of a loving Graphic Designer home into our 12,000 square foot predator-proof Veda Stram, Vice President outdoor aviary for the total safety of our rescued birds! Debbie Donovan, Bookkeeper UPC Sanctuary Photo of the “Snow Whites” in Bill Ferguson, Web Assistant the Trees, by Karen Davis, Oct. 9, 2019 Ronnie Steinau, Office Assistant Hope Bohanec, Projects Manager Jill Carnegie, Kaporos Campaign Strategist Johnathan Albrecht, Sanctuary Assistant Holly Wills, Sanctuary Assistant

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International Respect for Chickens Day May 4/Month m Demanded prosecution of Alabama students who of May - Celebrating the Life and Dignity of Chickens savagely beat a duck to death with a bat. & Protesting Their Abuse in Farming Operations. For m Promoted Chicken Run Rescue’s 2019 chicken a full view of our 2019 campaign and wide-ranging photo contest for their 2020 calendar. activities, see www.upc-online.org/respect . m Petitioned against opening a poultry slaughter m Hosted our annual public outreach demonstration market in Alexandria, Virginia. & leafleting at the White House. m Protested the cruel “chicken toss” in Ridgeland, m Promoted Chicken Run Rescue Chicken Photo Contest Wisconsin. in May. m Supported a New York State bill to ban chick- m Distributed UPC chickens literature & posters hatching programs in NY schools. through our activist members in offices, libraries, shopping centers & university campuses in the U.S. Alliance to End Chicken Kaporos Campaign - 2019 and Canada. m Generated events in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos is a project of Australia. United Poultry Concerns m Garnered media coverage launched in 2010 to expose across the USA via PR and eliminate the ritual of Newswire and media Kaporos in which chickens interviews! are abused and killed for m Ran Metro and Bus Ads “atonement” in many ul- through May in Dallas, traorthodox Hasidic com- Texas. munities. Our legal and other actions and reports, Further Actions, Investigations & Outreach 2010-2019, can be viewed Campaigns: A Shortlist - 2019 on the Alliance website at www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com. m Informed National Public Radio (NPR) that sport Here are a few highlights from 2019: hunters do not “speak for the animals.” m Happy Home for Kaporos Chickens! In 2019, m Co-sponsored a formal petition, prepared by United Poultry Concerns funded a beautiful new attorney Adam Karp to the governors of Washington Barn, Pasture & Plaque for Rescued “Cornish” State and Oregon, to implement those states’ Offices Kaporos Chickens to live out their lives in the of Public Instruction mandates requiring humane loving care of Tamerlaine Sanctuary in New Jersey. education teachings in the public schools. UPC Winter-Spring 2020 Poultry Press. m Urged Liberty Mutual Insurance Company to m Activists Rescue Over 200 Animals remove its car insurance advertisements featuring from Slaughter TheirTurn.net, January 17. violent and degrading depictions of emus. m Kaporos Activism Focuses on Showing Care and m Investigated gamefowl breeding operation in Compassion for the Birds patch.com/new-york/ Melrose, New Mexico and urged local sheriff’s office prospectheights, October 25. to enforce the law against cockfighting in the state. m Animal rights protesters bring food, water for m Urged NPR’s “This American Life” to stop chickens crated for Yom Kippur ritual New York rerunning “Poultry Slam” episodes from the 1990s. DailyNews.com. October 7. m Urged prosecution of duckling abusers in m Video: Live Coverage of Kaporos in Brooklyn Their Clearwater, Florida. Turn.net, October 6. m Successfully protested Nellie’s Eggs commercials on m Video: Jane Unchained News Live Coverage of Washington, DC’s NPR station WAMU. Kaporos in Brooklyn fb.com/JaneVelezMitchell, m Protested slaughter of Canada Geese in Denver, October 6. Colorado. 

United Poultry Concerns • (757) 678-7875 15 P.O. Box 150 • Machipongo, VA 23405-0150 United Poultry Concerns www.upc-online.org Volume 30, Number 2 m Six birds spared slaughter today are on their way m Amazon Reviews Praise FOR THE BIRDS: FROM to a foster/veterinary care before they head to their EXPLOITATION TO LIBERATION by Karen forever homes. Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos, Davis, PhD. October 2. m Interviews Karen Davis For The Birds: m Special screening of “Robin: Rescued from the Dead” From Exploitation to Liberation. benefitting Kaporos week of action, NYC September m Will Birds Sing or Will They Be Silent? Our Choice 29. is Their Fate. m Hasidic Jews Speak Out Against Mass Animal m “Dirty Chicken,” The Atlantic, Nov. 1990 Prompts Sacrifice, Kaporos, TheirTurn.net. September 18. Letter from United Poultry Concerns President m NYC Health Commissioner Says She Will Continue Karen Davis in February 1991 issue. to Allow Orthodox Jewish Despite m Experiencing Chickens and Restoring Their Earth Health Code Violations, Reports of E. coli, and Rights. Current Measles Outbreak in Same Community. m The “Easter” Chick - A Lost Soul. TheirTurn.net. April 11. m “Clean Meat” Hoax Website Now Posted: Check It m ABC7NY coverage: In response to Mayor DeBlasio’s Out! emergency measles outbreak declaration, protestors m The Science of Delivering Drugs through Chicken urge city agencies to PREVENT another outbreak Eggs. by enforcing laws already in place. fb.com/Alliance to m My Comment on Today’s 1A Show “Planting a End Chickens as Kaporos. April 11. Seed” on Being Vegan. m Joel Freedman: Stop Kaporos cruelty, Daily Messenger (Canandaigua, NY) February 20. New Website Videos, PowerPoints – 2019 m Conscious Eating Conference, March 2. Fabulous Kiosks & Bus Posters for Chickens and www.upc-online.org/forums/2019/videos.html Turkeys! - 2019 m Going Home: Beautiful Video of Beloved Chickens m Metro and Bus Ads through May in Dallas, Texas: by Chicken Run Rescue 16 October 2019. “What Wings Are For! Life Can Be Beautiful - Go m Robin: Rescued from the Dead, a New Film by Vegan!” Unparalleled Suffering 2 August 2019. m Bus posters for turkeys at 61 bus shelters in m Liberating the Language of Animal Abuse: Choosing Philadelphia, November: “Have a Compassionate Our Words Carefully to Get People to Care About Holiday Season – Be Kind to Turkeys – Go Vegan!” and Help Animals Presented by Karen Davis at the m University of Maryland Diamondback full-color 2019 Animal Rights National Conference, Alexandria, display ad series, Spring & Fall: “Compassion is a VA on 26 July 2019. Beautiful Thing” * “Misery in Every Mouthful,” * m Chickens and Turkeys – Who are They and Why “Don’t Gobble Me!” Should We Care? Presented by Karen Davis at the m Full-page glossy display Ad, VA Association of 2019 Animal Rights National Conference, Alexandria, Science Teachers Program, November 14-16. VA on 26 July 2019. m Humane Hoax Online Summit Videos Are Now New Website Documents - 2019 Available for Viewing 11 February 2019. m Life Can Be Beautiful-Go Vegan! Revised & Updated. In print and online. www.upc-online.org/govegan.pdf Speaking Engagements, Webinars & Exhibits – 2019: m Chickens or Pigs: Would You Pick One to Suffer Karen Davis, Hope Bohanec More? m Second Annual Humane Hoax Online Summit, m Turkeys: Sympathy, Sensibility, and . December 30. m Chickens are Courageous Birds. They are NOT m Vegan Roots Fest, Charlottesville, VA, September 28. Cowards, or a Trope for Human Cowardice. m Delaware VegFest, Newark, DE, September 21. m “Stop Mocking Vegans” – My Reaction. m Vegetarian Food Fest, San Francisco, CA, September m Chickens Are NOT Cannibals. 21. 

United Poultry Concerns • (757) 678-7875 16 P.O. Box 150 • Machipongo, VA 23405-0150 Volume 30, Number 2 United Poultry Concerns www.upc-online.org m For the Birds Lecture & Book-Signing Event, m “Outlandish Quotes,” MeatingPlace, September 11. Greenbelt, MD, August 25. m Animal Ag Watch, August 3. m Animal Rights March & Rally, Washington, DC m “‘Euthanized’ Wrong Word for Killing Geese,” August 17. Salisbury Daily Times, July 12. m Animal Rights National Conference, Washington, m “The Fight for 40 Billion,” Animal Culture DC, July 25-28. Magazine, April 4. m San Francisco Veg Society Speaker Series, June 12. m UPC Letter to Alexandria, VA City Council’s m National Animal Rights Day Rally, New York City, Webpage, opposing poultry slaughter market, March June 2. 18. m Annual Veggie Pride Parade, New York City, April m “Chicken Chucking Event Offensive,” The Standard, 14. Niagara, Ontario, February 18. m UPC’s 8th annual Conscious Eating Conference, Berkeley, CA, March 2. BROADCAST MEDIA - 2019 m Mindful Eating Film Festival, Point Reyes, CA, m Louie B. Free Radio, “Brainfood from the February 2. Heartland,” Youngstown, Ohio, November 20. m First Annual Humane Hoax Online Summit, m KMUD Redwood Community Radio (CA) January 12-13. September 25. m “It’s All About Food,” Interview hosted by Caryn Additional Community Outreach - Exhibits & Hartglass, NYC, July 22. Demonstrations – 2019 m “In Tune to Nature,” WEFG, Atlanta, Georgia, May 7. m Veg Society of Washington DC Thanksgiving m KPFT Vegan World Radio, Houston, Texas, April 29. celebration, November 28. m “Food is Energy Radio” Show, Petaluma, CA, m UPC Vegan Thanksgiving celebration, Santa Rosa, January 7. November 22. m Vegan Nation Radio, WCUW, January 4. m Compassionate Demo for Turkeys, The White m Pointy Reyes Radio, KWMR, CA, January 3. House, November 16. m World Vegfest, San Francisco, October 26-27. Financial Report - 2019 m Twin Cities Vegfest, St. Paul, MN, September 15. m Richmond Vegfest, VA, September 14. United Poultry Concerns Fiscal Year: January 1 - m Third Annual Triad Vegfest, Greensboro, NC, June December 31, 2019 22. m International Respect for Chickens Day Demo, The Revenues.………………………………….$340,331 White House, May 4. Public Support…………………………………315,136 m Montgomery County Greenfest, Wheaton, MD, Expenses.…………………………………..$367,433 April 28. Programs and Education.……………………….308,620 m Pottstown Ecofest, PA, April 27. Organizational Management…………………….58,813 m Environmental Studies Class from Salisbury Net Assets/Fund Balance at End of Year……$1,315,541 University (MD) to UPC Sanctuary, April 5. m SacTown Vegfest Sacramento, CA, January 26. United Poultry Concerns gratefully acknowledges the kind assistance of UPC in the News: Clear Channel Outdoor Inc $25,000 Theresa Whetsell $30,068 PRINT MEDIA (Including Internet Publications): Lauren Marino, Fidelity Charitable $15,000 Published Letters, Columns, Citations, 2019 Harold B Larson Charitable Trust $21,569 American Friends Service Committee $22,500 m For the Birds: From Exploitation to Liberation by Anonymous $12,000 Karen Davis, PhD, published by Lantern Books. Thank You for Your Support!

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