AR-News: (U.S. - N.Y.) Ducklings Saved from Slaughter

[Mary Finelli]

United Poultry Concerns PO Box 150 Machipongo, VA 23405
Phone: 757-678-7875 Fax: 757-678-5070 www.UPC-online.org

For Immediate Release
June 9, 2004
Contact: Karen Davis 757-678-7875


SIXTH-GRADE STUDENT ON LONG ISLAND SAVES DUCKLINGS FROM SLAUGHTER


Machipongo, VA – After Tim Eisemann’s sixth-grade class raised ducklings 
from an incubator, the 20 baby birds would have gone to slaughter this week 
if Tim had not taken action. Instead he sent out an imploring email to 
United Poultry Concerns: “Please help me if you can.”

Following a weekend of fruitless efforts to find a home for the ducklings, 
United Poultry Concerns referred Tim to Sara Whalen of Pets Alive in 
Middletown, New York. Whalen published an Internet alert, and within 
minutes, Angels Gate hospice on Long Island offered sanctuary to the 
ducklings.

Tim Eisemann challenged the Babylon Memorial Grade School’s practice of 
hatching ducklings for destruction. To help prevent further occurrences, 
United Poultry Concerns sent his teacher our booklet on Hatching Good 
Lessons: Alternatives To School Hatching Projects. The booklet shows how to 
teach students intelligently about birds without encouraging the view that 
animals are disposable objects. Schools typically provide no veterinary care 
for the many deformed and sick birds hatched needlessly in classroom 
incubators. And like all baby birds, ducklings need their mothers.

Tim is a hero. Thanks to his refusal to be spoon-fed animal suffering as 
“education,” 20 doomed ducklings now have a home. Sadly, most birds hatched 
in classrooms never find homes. A slaughterhouse is not a home, and animal 
shelters and sanctuaries are overwhelmed with unwanted animals, reflecting 
society’s contribution to preventable pet overpopulation.  As a step in the 
right direction, we encourage parents, teachers, and students to contact 
United Poultry Concerns for our free educational literature. Tim spoke for 
many students who are silent out of fear when he wrote, “I am an animal 
lover and it would break my heart to see these ducklings go away to a cruel 
death.” By turning his compassion into action, Tim is a mentor for all of 
us.

For information on ducks, visit http://upc-online.org/ducks/
For information on hatching project alternatives, visit 
http://upc-online.org/hatching/


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

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