AR-News: UNITED POULTRY CONCERNS FIFTH ANNUAL FORUM 2004

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You are Cordially Invited to Attend
UNITED POULTRY CONCERNS FIFTH ANNUAL FORUM 2004
Mad Cows to Mad Chickens: What Insiders Can Tell You About Agribusiness,
Animal Liberation, and Your Diet

Meet the eyewitnesses and hear their testimony from behind the scenes of the
meat, poultry, egg, dairy, medical, and alternative animal production
industries

Saturday, August 21 – Sunday August 22, 2004

Registration Form and Schedule:
http://www.upc-online.org/alerts/41904forum04.htm
Hilton Airport Norfolk Hotel
1500 N Military Hwy
Norfolk, VA 23502
Toll Free: 800-422-7474
$92.00 single/double occupancy
Guests must advise they will be with UNITED POULTRY CONCERNS group when
making their reservation. Each reservation must be guaranteed via credit
card number or check.

Registration : $75 per person. Students & seniors: $40

Vegan luncheon and Continental breakfast will be provided both days by
United Poultry Concerns.

A complimentary dinner , provided by Little Italy, will be hosted at United
Poultry Concerns' headquarters & chicken sanctuary on Sunday evening
following the Forum.

Speakers :

Sarahjane Blum, media director for GourmetCruelty.com, a grassroots
coalition dedicated to exposing the truth about the cruel delicacy of foie
gras, through undercover investigation, open rescue, and educational
outreach.

Virgil Butler, former Tyson chicken slaughterhouse worker in Grannis,
Arkansas, whose testimony about the horrible conditions at Tyson and ongoing
website revelations were featured in a front-page article in the Los Angeles
Times , “A Killing Floor Chronicle,” Dec. 8, 2003.

Terry Cummings, codirector of Poplar Spring Farm Animal Sanctuary, whose
visit to Springfield Farm, a free-range turkey farm in Sparks, Maryland,
showed how these turkeys actually live.

Cheri Ezell-Vandersluis, a former dairy goat farmer, and now the director of
Maple Farm Sanctuary in Mendon, Massachusetts, had an eye-opening experience
that changed her life forever.

Mary Finelli, Farmed Animal Advocacy Consultant and former Editor of Farmed
Animal Watch.

Lester Friedlander , DVM, former chief veterinary USDA Meat Inspector at the
largest hamburger production plant in the country, was one of the first
veterinarians in the U.S. to study tapes of what BSE-infected cows look
like. He was fired by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for speaking out on
48 Hours (CBS) and Prime Time Live (ABC).

Michael Greger, M.D., Mad Cow Coordinator for the Organic Consumers
Association and Chief BSE Investigator for Farm Sanctuary, is the author of
“The Killer Among Us” and many other articles on human and animal health
issues.

Pattrice Jones, co-director of the Eastern Shore Sanctuary & Education
Center and coordinator of the Global Hunger Alliance, lives and learns from
chickens and chicken “growers” in the heart of Delmarva poultry country.

Jim Mason, co-author of Animal Factories and author of An Unnatural Order ,
worked undercover as an artificial inseminator at a ConAgra turkey breeding
operation in Missouri and is now working on a new book.

Paul Shapiro, campaigns director for Compassion Over Killing, a nonprofit
animal advocacy organization whose work on behalf of farmed animals has been
featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San
Francisco Chronicle, and Baltimore Sun , among other media outlets. As a COK
investigator, he has documented the conditions for animals in factory farms,
livestock auctions, and slaughter plants.



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