Urban Hens for Kamloops: April 2009

Monday, April 27, 2009

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The Kamloops Urban Hens have organized an Urban Agriculture Week here in Kamloops. It starts today. April 27 to April 30th there will be food/agriculture related documentaries being screened at the TRU clocktower starting @ 7pm. Friday, Saturday and Sunday there will be workshops, debates, speakers. My husband is doing a coop building workshop on the Sunday.

See the link "omelettes for everyone" for the official Urban Hens website and the detailed schedule for the week. Hope to see you there!

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“If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week. Small changes in buying habits can make big differences. Becoming a less energy-dependent nation may just need to start with a good breakfast.” Steven L. Hopp, “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver

The living conditions in Commercial egg factories are as such: Up to nine birds are often crammed into a cage the size of a microwave oven where they are not able to lie down. Blazing lights stimulate their ovaries day and night so that they lay almost double the eggs a normal, happy hen should lay. They breathe the stench of ammonia - never knowing the sweet smell of fresh air. They feel chronic pain from debeaking, the routine removal of a chick's beak to stop them taking out their distress on each other. A normal, happy hen lives up to four years, while the commercial hen is made into pet food after just 15 months.

"When I learned that the hen had tear glands, I assumed she could cry" Gina Mallet, Last Chance to Eat.

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Monday, April 27, 2009

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