Crush Cockfighting Campaign and Captive Panda Assault

Dear UPC Supporter,

We’re sharing with you these two exposures. When I read the article last weekend about how pandas are sexually assaulted by the international zoo industry, I decided we must inform people. Until reading this account, I was unaware of the details, and I assume many of you are, too.

The Captive Panda Breeding Boondoggle:
The Invisible Side

Edinburgh zoo acquired Tian Tian and her mate Yang Guang in 2011 in a 10-year deal with China.
Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

The Captive Panda Breeding Boondoggle:
The Invisible Side
Marc Bekoff, Ph.D.

Zoo confirms sixth attempt to conceive through
artificial insemination was unsuccessful.
The Guardian

In addition, United Poultry Concerns is sharing with you and supporting the new Crush Cockfighting Campaign launched by SHARK (Showing Animals Respect and Kindness). Please support SHARK’s campaign to free roosters from this criminal enterprise.

Crush Cockfighting

Crush Cockfighting Campaign

SHARK

Thank you for being a strong voice for all animals.

Sincerely,
Karen Davis, PhD, President
United Poultry Concerns

Learn more:

• Interspecies Sexual Assault: A Moral Perspective
• Cockfighting

KAREN DAVIS, PhD is the President and Founder of United Poultry Concerns, a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl including a sanctuary for chickens in Virginia. Inducted into the National Animal Rights Hall of Fame for Outstanding Contributions to Animal Liberation, she is the author of numerous books, essays, articles and campaigns. Her latest book is For the Birds: From Exploitation to Liberation: Essays on Chickens, Turkeys, and Other Domesticated Fowl (Lantern Books, 2019).