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Salon | Newsreal: Chickens have rights too! (703 words) |
 | The letter came from Karen Davis, president of United Poultry Concerns Inc. Davis -- something of a Simon Wiesenthal for fowl -- says she founded the not-for-profit organization seven years ago in part to memorialize her "companion" broiler hen, Viva, whom she had rescued from a chicken coop five years earlier. |
| United Poultry Concerns' main mission, explains Davis, is to "combat the negative stereotype of poultry as dumb, dirty and low on the evolutionary scale." |
| Lately, Davis and her flock of 6,800 poultry protectors are throwing their weight behind a grass-roots campaign to halt forced molting, the systematic starvation of hens to control laying cycles. |
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