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Blogging for chickens
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- Eastern Shore Sanctuary
Date Created
- 05 Aug 2005
Date Edited
- 05 Aug 2005 11:42:35 AM
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A former poultry slaughterer will be blogging for a Maryland chicken sanctuary in the annual blogathon for charity on August 6.
Virgil Butler used to kill chickens for a living. Now he's blogging to save their lives.
Once deemed "the best chicken killer in Arkansas," Butler quit his job in 2002, coming forward with detailed recollections of extraordinary abuse and everyday cruelty at the poultry factory. Butler's weblog, or "blog," has drawn national media attention to the deprivations endured by people, animals, and the environment in the impoverished rural regions where the meat industries locate most of their operations.
On August 6, starting at 9 AM, "Cyberactivist" Virgil Butler and his partner Laura Alexander will be participating in an annual Blogathon for charity. They will be required to post a blog entry every half hour for 24 hours. They have selected the Eastern Shore Sanctuary as the non-profit organization to which their Blogathon sponsors will contribute.
The "hot topic" about which Butler and Alexander will be blogging is factory farming. During the blogathon, they will post information about the social, environmental, and ethical problems associated with Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). Those downbeat postings will be balanced by periodic reports from the sanctuary about the happy lives of the birds during the day of the blogathon.
Butler and Alexander chose the Eastern Shore Sanctuary as their designated charity because it is a small sanctuary located in an impoverished rural region dominated by the poultry industry. Founded in 2000, Maryland's Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center offers a home to nearly 200 chickens and ducks. It is the only farmed animal sanctuary located in the midst of factory farms and is also the only sanctuary to rehabilitate roosters who have been abused by cockfighting operations.
Also blogging for the sanctuary will be Heather Singer, whose "Blogging for the birds" site honors a hen called "Bonnie," who was Heather's companion until her recent demise.
Other blogathon participants will be blogging for other animal-oriented organizations as well as for hundreds of other charities.
You can sponsor a blogathon participant for as little as one dollar.
To become a blogathon sponsor, go to www.blogathon.org and choose "Register" from the menu on the left side of the screen.
After registering, you will be able to enter a pledge from any participant's campaign site:
Virgil Butler
www.blogathon.org/blogathon.php
Heather Singer
www.blogathon.org/blogathon.php
Complete list of participants
www.blogathon.org/blogathon.php
Once deemed "the best chicken killer in Arkansas," Butler quit his job in 2002, coming forward with detailed recollections of extraordinary abuse and everyday cruelty at the poultry factory. Butler's weblog, or "blog," has drawn national media attention to the deprivations endured by people, animals, and the environment in the impoverished rural regions where the meat industries locate most of their operations.
On August 6, starting at 9 AM, "Cyberactivist" Virgil Butler and his partner Laura Alexander will be participating in an annual Blogathon for charity. They will be required to post a blog entry every half hour for 24 hours. They have selected the Eastern Shore Sanctuary as the non-profit organization to which their Blogathon sponsors will contribute.
The "hot topic" about which Butler and Alexander will be blogging is factory farming. During the blogathon, they will post information about the social, environmental, and ethical problems associated with Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). Those downbeat postings will be balanced by periodic reports from the sanctuary about the happy lives of the birds during the day of the blogathon.
Butler and Alexander chose the Eastern Shore Sanctuary as their designated charity because it is a small sanctuary located in an impoverished rural region dominated by the poultry industry. Founded in 2000, Maryland's Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center offers a home to nearly 200 chickens and ducks. It is the only farmed animal sanctuary located in the midst of factory farms and is also the only sanctuary to rehabilitate roosters who have been abused by cockfighting operations.
Also blogging for the sanctuary will be Heather Singer, whose "Blogging for the birds" site honors a hen called "Bonnie," who was Heather's companion until her recent demise.
Other blogathon participants will be blogging for other animal-oriented organizations as well as for hundreds of other charities.
You can sponsor a blogathon participant for as little as one dollar.
To become a blogathon sponsor, go to www.blogathon.org and choose "Register" from the menu on the left side of the screen.
After registering, you will be able to enter a pledge from any participant's campaign site:
Virgil Butler
www.blogathon.org/blogathon.php
Heather Singer
www.blogathon.org/blogathon.php
Complete list of participants
www.blogathon.org/blogathon.php
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