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Article: United Poultry Concerns Will Stick Up for Turkeys at the White House on Thursday, Nov. 15
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- November 13, 2007
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns, +1-757-678-7875
MACHIPONGO, Va., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United
Poultry Concerns (UPC) will leaflet for turkeys on Pennsylvania
Avenue across from the White House on Thursday, November 15 from
Noon to 4 p.m. We will urge people to bypass the turkey on
Thanksgiving Day and pioneer new traditions in the kitchen.
Turkeys are raised in filth on factory farms. They are painfully
debeaked and detoed without anesthetic to offset the destructive
effects of overcrowding. According to North Carolina State
University professor, William Donaldson, Very few animals go through
the stresses of poults [baby turkeys] in their ...