AR-News: UPC Reports a Successful Student Protest Against the NHSPCA

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For Immediate Release
November 17, 2003
Contact: Karen Davis 757-678-7875

United Poultry Concerns Reports a Successful Student Protest Against the New
Hampshire SPCA’s Use of Suffering Animals to Raise Shelter Funds

Machipongo, VA – United Poultry Concerns (UPC), an animal protection
organization, is pleased to report that the student protest at the
University of New Hampshire, where the New Hampshire SPCA (NHSPCA) held a
fundraiser on November 15, featuring dead chickens and fish to raise shelter
money, “went very well,” according to Animal Rights Group leader Larissa
Mullen, who writes:

“We stood in front of the New England center from 4:30 until 7pm. Many
people were very supportive. We got a number of people who were going to the
event to take UPC flyers inside with them to pass out to other people
inside. We actually had someone who read one of the flyers inside come back
outside and talk to us and tell us that he supported us. I talked to the
woman who was the NHSPCA’s webmaster. She agreed it didn’t make sense to
post pictures of adoptable roosters on the website while the NHSPCA made
money off a chicken dinner.

A few people were not as supportive. As expected, we had a few cave men and
cave women yell at us. I was appalled to see a number of women going to the
NHSPCA fundraiser wearing fur coats. But in all, the people who supported us
far outweighed the people who did not. The NHSPCA could not ignore us. We’ll
see what they serve next year. I think it will be vegan!”

UPC’s protest against the NHSPCA’s inhumane fundraiser was reported by the
Scripps Howard News Service on November 14: “Chicken huggers have a bone to
pick with animal shelters in New Hampshire.” According to Scripps Howard,
UPC, which regularly protests against the “horrid conditions chickens endure
on commercial poultry farms, is mad at the New Hampshire Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for not serving vegetarian meals at its
fundraisers.”

This was the second year in a row that UPC urged the NHSPCA to choose a
compassionate, morally conscionable fundraising meal plan. Pathetically,
this year, rather than showing the compassion demanded of a self-proclaimed
animal protection society, the NHSPCA dropped its beautiful vision of “a
world in which every animal is well-cared for and loved” so that it could
continue to foster a world in which billions of suffering animals are
morally abandoned and tortured to death. This hypocrisy is no longer
acceptable to the animal advocacy community.

United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes the
compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
http://www.upc-online.org