[4animals] Re: KFC and bird brains

Tue May 30 18:37:36 UTC 2006

I'm forwarding this email because I reduced the picture sizes attached... (original email was 15021kb)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Michele 
To: vaalea ; Jane Kearnan ; 4animals at ottawaveg.com ; Noah Soroka ; Simon Chan ; Tasya F ; Frank ; Diana Payne ; Abbott Tracey ; Victoria Good 
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: KFC and bird brains

Here are the photos that I managed to get.  I think others may have taken some too...  As for the official report, unfortunately there was no media coverage despite faxing out media releases to the 2 main papers and 2 local tv stations, as well as about 4 local radio stations.  However, I would estimate that we gave out about 500 leaflets (I think I had about 300, and there were at least 2 others with a stack of leaflets each), so if you consider that some groups of 2-4 people took just one flyer for the group, and if you consider the large number of people who didn't take a leaflet but cheered as they drove by, I would say the message got out to a very LARGE audience.  I heard a lot of positive feedback from passers by, and even though there were some negative comments, I don't think that was the sentiment of the majority.  Even though those people seemed to have the loudest voices, I don't think that should be how we measure our success at having gotten the message across.  There will always be people who will stick to their opinions no matter how convincing we try to be - I don't think it's worth the time and effort talking to those groups of people, and I would just ignore the dumb comments made by the small number of uninformed and ignorant people (I would especially ignore Mr. "I used to work there" and "get your facts straight" guy!!!)  I think we should be proud of what we accomplished.  I want to thank everyone who helped out, no matter how big or small the task.  It was all needed to pull this off, and I just appreciate everything you all did.  Thanks to Kyle for being brave with the mega-phone - you did a fantastic job!  Thank you to Frank for literally sweating it out in the chicken costume - you really got the point across.  Thanks to everyone who put up posters in advance, made and/or held signs, handed out leaflets, shouted out some chants, or talked to those who wanted to hear more!  I look forward to future demonstrations with you!

Michele Thorn

At 07:47 PM 29/05/2006, vaalea wrote:

  So I'm waiting to hear the official report on the KFC protest.... and see pictures!!

  until then, there was some discussion about the intelligence of birds/chickens when we were packing up, and so I share with you the following (and a few other animal stories...):

  I once saw on America's Funniest Home Videos, a little bird on a dock with some bread crumbs... but instead of eating them, the bird would pick them up, bring them down to a beam near the water, and drop it in, poking it around a little. Inevitably a little fish spotted the breadcrumb and went for an easy meal, at which point it was nabbed by the bird. This bird had turned a little meal of crumbs into a bigger meal of fish!

  Bird Brains
  http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/brain/
  Breaking the code on chicken clucks
  http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/pdfs/data/1999/15609/15609-10.pdf
  Study: Chickens Think About Future
  http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050711/chicken.html
  Chicken Talk
  http://www.upc-online.org/stories/chicken_talk.html
  Chicken Intelligence
  http://www.chickenindustry.com/cfi/intelligence/
  ""Certainly they have a genetic predisposition, but they also have intelligence rarely nurtured by humans." When it is nurtured, the results are often surprising."
  http://www.vivavegie.org/vvi/vva/vvi7/vvi7-2.html
  The Hidden Lives of Chickens
  http://www.goveg.com/f-hiddenliveschickens.asp
  Gay storks make good parents
  http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1853621.html?menu=
  Budgie wins cross-stitching award
  http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1673449.html?menu=news.quirkies.animaltales 
  Parrot helped catch robbers
  http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1458355.html?menu=news.quirkies.animaltales 
  ...
  Humour is also not only the province of humans. Chimps mock, dogs tease and parrots provoke. When asked to identify the colour of a white towel held up by a teacher, a gorilla named Koko repeatedly signed "red". Then, grinning, she plucked off a bit of red lint clinging to the towel, held it up to the trainer's face and signed "red" again.
  What are the implications for humankind's relationship to animals when we acknowledge and embrace the richness of their sensory experience of their worlds? It is convenient and economical to exclude animals from our sphere of moral concern - as we do, for example, in the meat, biomedical research, and fur industries. But is it right?
  To the degree that animals can enjoy life, we may conclude that our moral obligations to them are greater. We may have no obligation to provide pleasure to another, but actively depriving them the opportunity to fulfil natural pleasures - as we do when we cage or kill them - is another matter.
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1785215,00.html 
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