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Blogging for Chickens

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, Virgil 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.



Contacts:



Pattrice Jones, Eastern Shore Sanctuary, 410-651-4934



Virgil Butler, 870-326-4546



Online sources of further information:



Blogathon website

http://www.blogathon.org



Virgil Butler's Blogathon campaign

http://www.blogathon.org/blogathon.phpcampaign&id=196



Virgil Butler's blog

http://www.cyberactivist.blogspot.com



Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center

http://www.bravebirds.org



"Poultry Press" interview with Virgil Butler and Laura Alexander

http://www.upc-online.org/fall04/virgil.htm

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