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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=mta@magma.ca href="mailto:mta@magma.ca">Michele</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=v@vaalea.com href="mailto:v@vaalea.com">vaalea</A> ; <A
title=janekearnan3@hotmail.com href="mailto:janekearnan3@hotmail.com">Jane
Kearnan</A> ; <A title=4animals@ottawaveg.com
href="mailto:4animals@ottawaveg.com">4animals@ottawaveg.com</A> ; <A
title=noah_soroka@hotmail.com href="mailto:noah_soroka@hotmail.com">Noah
Soroka</A> ; <A title=simon_vegetarian@hotmail.com
href="mailto:simon_vegetarian@hotmail.com">Simon Chan</A> ; <A
title=tash_f@hotmail.com href="mailto:tash_f@hotmail.com">Tasya F</A> ; <A
title=imperialblue@hotmail.com href="mailto:imperialblue@hotmail.com">Frank</A>
; <A title=dpayne@casott.on.ca href="mailto:dpayne@casott.on.ca">Diana Payne</A>
; <A title=traceymaryabbott@hotmail.com
href="mailto:traceymaryabbott@hotmail.com">Abbott Tracey</A> ; <A
title=v_good@rogers.com href="mailto:v_good@rogers.com">Victoria Good</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:46 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: KFC and bird brains</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>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 <B>especially</B> 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!<BR><BR>Michele
Thorn<BR><BR>At 07:47 PM 29/05/2006, vaalea wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">So I'm waiting to hear the official
report on the KFC protest.... and see pictures!!<BR><BR><BR>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...):<BR><BR>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!<BR><BR><BR>Bird
Brains<BR><A href="http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/brain/"
eudora="autourl">http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/brain/</A><BR>Breaking the
code on chicken clucks<BR><A
href="http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/pdfs/data/1999/15609/15609-10.pdf"
eudora="autourl">http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/pdfs/data/1999/15609/15609-10.pdf</A><BR>Study:
Chickens Think About Future<BR><A
href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050711/chicken.html"
eudora="autourl">http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050711/chicken.html</A><BR>Chicken
Talk<BR><A href="http://www.upc-online.org/stories/chicken_talk.html"
eudora="autourl">http://www.upc-online.org/stories/chicken_talk.html</A><BR>Chicken
Intelligence<BR><A href="http://www.chickenindustry.com/cfi/intelligence/"
eudora="autourl">http://www.chickenindustry.com/cfi/intelligence/</A><BR>""Certainly
they have a genetic predisposition, but they also have intelligence rarely
nurtured by humans." When it is nurtured, the results are often
surprising."<BR><A href="http://www.vivavegie.org/vvi/vva/vvi7/vvi7-2.html"
eudora="autourl">http://www.vivavegie.org/vvi/vva/vvi7/vvi7-2.html</A><BR>The
Hidden Lives of Chickens<BR><A
href="http://www.goveg.com/f-hiddenliveschickens.asp"
eudora="autourl">http://www.goveg.com/f-hiddenliveschickens.asp</A><BR>Gay
storks make good parents<BR><A
href="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1853621.html?menu"
eudora="autourl">http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1853621.html?menu</A>=<BR>Budgie
wins cross-stitching award<BR><A
href="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1673449.html?menu=news.quirkies.animaltales"
eudora="autourl">http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1673449.html?menu=news.quirkies.animaltales</A>
<BR>Parrot helped catch robbers<BR><A
href="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1458355.html?menu=news.quirkies.animaltales"
eudora="autourl">http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1458355.html?menu=news.quirkies.animaltales</A>
<BR>...<BR>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.<BR>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?<BR>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.<BR><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1785215,00.html"
eudora="autourl">http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1785215,00.html</A>
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