As for the bird mill, one of our amazon adopters
is a vet in Tracy who interned at the Preferred
Birds facility in Florida. She spent the entire
time feeding baby birds. She might be willing to
provide info about the bird mill.
Karen
From: media-advisors-bounces@mickaboo.org
[mailto:media-advisors-bounces@mickaboo.org] On
Behalf Of Elizabeth Young
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 9:29 PM
To: Mickaboo media advisor team
Subject: [Media-advisors] Fwd: ACWC Minutes posted
from July 8th meeting
FYI
and
I don't know what the S A F E concept is unless it
is another name for Teresa's SPARC program.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
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
, 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 http://www.saveabunny.org/
www.saveabunny.etsy.com
http://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.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
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/pa
rrots-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
