I f*ing hate humans.....and....happy international respect for chickens day.
Im having a rough day.
today is one of my most favorite holidays, I look forward to it and plan all year long. I'm pretty sure I get more excited about today than any other holiday (okay maybe I get excited for Halloween.) Today is International Respect for Chickens Day. For me, that means organizing events to share in the love of chickens and to educate the public about alternatives to eating them...to teach them a little bit about chickens so that they can appreciate them too. I usually plan something like a table demonstration with posters and free samples of yummy vegetarian chicken....or have little children make a craft like paining/decoupaging wooden chickens....last year, you might remember, I showed the movie Chicken Run and made chickenless-pot-pie and chicken shaped cookies (and even though nobody showed up, I felt good about it.). The years that I have had companion-animal chickens, I showered them with special treats and love.
This year....Ive done nothing....I knew the day was getting closer and closer...and I kept WANTING to plan something, but being sick has taken away all my initiative and creativity right now. I don't want to do anything. I could not think of a single idea for what to do to honor chickens today. So I did NOTHING! :( I don't even have a chicken to snuggle with, and I miss Liberty Chicken, Sing and Broody (the chickens I rescued) a lot. I miss them all the time but I miss them especially today. IRCD is usually a light and happy day for me (I dont focus on how chickens are mistreated- juston how cool they are and ways to show them respect) but right now it feels dark and heavy.
So...as the night was winding down, I decided to google image some phrases about chickens to make me smile....and I found horrible, sickening pictures---and many of them taken as "cool pictures" that people obviously didnt think of how what they were doing was affecting the poor chicken in the photos! I HATE animal abuse! I hate humans for abusing animals...I want o cry. :'( Somebody cheer me.
Im going to take a few sleeping pills and go to bed while i look at my photos of my chickens on facebook- maybe I will be able to cry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rk8A9NdwwY
hey, I didn't even know this day existed! thanks :) I will pass on the message!
There is someone living near me who seems to have rescued caged hens and they now live in their own special area of the backyard, which is near the sidewalk & you can see through the fence. I like to go see them and they make funny noises and come over to check me out :)
Jane, that was just weird....lol :>
Tino, how very very cool....thats the sort of thing I wanted to do with my chicken rescue. Well, actually I wanted to train people int eh community about chickens and their care and then put rescued factory farmed chickens in theri care. CAn you bring them a little air poped popcorn or some naked spaghetti for me? Ask their mama or papa first though ;)b
(JM)2 Thanks for the kind swords, that is awsome that you want to help at an animal shelter! Do it, you will feel great about it and it will really help the animals. If I inspired you to do something (or to be more proactive about somehting you already wanted to do) then that is a really good thing!
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You did do something! You told some people there was a chicken day and I find that awesome. Chickens are weird little things but I quite like them in a "Stop it, your eyes are beady" kind of way.
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All humans are Homo Sepians..........
But
All Homo Sepians are not HUMAN.
NJA