FYI
and
I don't know what the S A F E concept is unless it is another name
for Teresa's SPARC program.
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From: Philip Gerrie
Date: Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:26 PM
Subject: ACWC Minutes posted from July 8th meeting
To: SaveABunny@aol.com
Cc: Elizabeth Young , jonathanharris@earthlink.net,
Teresa Murphy , Sally Stephens <
stephensfw@mindspring.com>, Pam Hemphill , "Elliot
M. Katz DVM"
I like it! Well done!
The minutes from the last meeting are now posted at,
http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=2216. It's worth a read through to
hear what everyone said and possibly respond to in public comment this
Thursday.
I'll stop by the one on Church at Cesar Chavez tomorrow.
Philip
On Aug 9, 2010, at 9:04 PM, SaveABunny@aol.com wrote:
HI All,
Any thoughts on the S. A. F. E. Concept?
Is anyone able to contact stores?
Marcy Schaaf
Founder, SaveABunny
www.saveabunny.org
www.saveabunny.etsy.com
415-388-2790
"A New Generation of Rabbit Rescue"
Save A Bunny. Save A Life.
In a message dated 8/9/2010 7:02:45 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
adoptkings@gmail.com writes:
Hello-
I asked this and got the response that follows. I thought it merited being
shared.
e
**
*One of the biggest, most consistent refrains of bird sellers Rick French
& Claudia Hunka are that there is no such thing as bird mills. This was
repeated by all the Bird Clubs as if not producing litters of 12
puppies/kittens quarterly means a breeding bird's life is humane.*
**
*Can you please help to cite evidence regarding the existence of bird mills?
*
**
*Any help on exposing this lie would be much appreciated.*
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From: Mira Tweti
Date: Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: "No such thing as bird mills"
To: Elizabeth Young
Cc: Mary Long
By definition any bird breeding facility, that is operating by basic
industry standards, is a bird mill.
Get the definition for a puppy mill and swap out dog for parrot. The parent
birds are kept in barren cages their whole lives. No enrichments, just a
perch, nest box, food and two parrots period for their decades-long lives.
And most breeders seal off the sides with metal sheets so they can't see the
parrots in the cages around them. Bird breeders don't want them to be
distracted! They figure w/out distractions they'll just breed round the
clock.
There are no baths, or if there are, they're only in cases where it's a warm
climate and they get hosed down with the cage when it's cleaned. They can't
bathe at will ever. These places are not set up for the comfort of the
breeder birds. Breeder birds are just pieces of an assembly line. It's
factory farming parrots.
The babies are taken from them before they're weaned so these breeder birds
have nothing. The vast majority, of all kinds of species, are
featherplucked.
That's a parrot mill and any breeder with pairs of breeder birds living
without toys, baths, a large enough cage to be comfortable (they keep them
in the smallest cages possible. Less room to move = closer proximity to the
mate & supposedly = more sex. Not. And smaller cages = more room for more
breeder pairds.
These hard conditions exist because the majority of people are treacherous
to non-human animals in general and with parrots it's so hard to breed them
they go to extraordinary lengths to try. Obvious fact is they, especially
the larger birds which are the hardest to breed, are not meant to be bred
in captivity. Duh.
It doesn't matter if a breeder has forty pair or four hundred pair, it's a
parrot mill if the dynamic above is in place and knowledgeable sources I
found when researching my book said to a one they are all parrot mills
without question.
Here are the links to "Parrots in Peril" the expose' on Martha Scudder, a
breeder with 800 parrots. She kept them in a concentration camp like
situation for decades and she still does. Even after a Sunday cover story in
the Tacoma News Tribune (she was in that county) she wasn't shut down. There
were city council hearings you can't imagine. The anti legislation faction
did what they did at the hearing last month in San Fran only it was worse in
Tacoma. Way worse.
This was the lead story and there were several sidebars I wrote as well. All
told it was a 10,000 word expose! Took up the entire first section of the
sunday paper. The only one I found online at the paper's site was the lead.
So I'm attaching the one on factory farming of parrots as a PDF. And any
other elements I find that was part of this big expose'. Took 7 months to
do.
Parrots in peril | Parrots - The News Tribune
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2005/12/18/367102/parrots-in-peril.html
On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Elizabeth Young wrote:
Hello-
One of the biggest, most consistent refrains of bird sellers Rick French
& Claudia Hunka are that there is no such thing as bird mills. This was
repeated by all the Bird Clubs as if not producing litters of 12
puppies/kittens quarterly means a breeding bird's life is humane.
Can you please help to cite evidence regarding the existence of bird mills?
Any help on exposing this lie would be much appreciated.
e
--
Elizabeth
Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt.
www.RescueReport.org http://www.rescuereport.org/
www.MickaCoo.org http://www.mickacoo.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0
--
Elizabeth
Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt.
www.RescueReport.org http://www.rescuereport.org/
www.MickaCoo.org http://www.mickacoo.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0
--
Elizabeth
Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt.
www.RescueReport.org
www.MickaCoo.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0
