Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos - [link removed]
7 October 2019
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jill Carnegie | 646-326-3879 |
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Contact: Rina Deych | 718-216-7103 |
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Activists Hold Mass Vigil and Provide Water for Birds Brutalized in Illegal
Open-air Slaughterhouse in Brooklyn, Exposing Extreme Political Corruption
NEW YORK, October 7, 2019 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - On October 7, 2019,
hundreds of activists from the across the country will stage a Mass Vigil
where brutal slaughter is performed in residential streets as part of an
atonement ritual known as Kaporos. Under Section 356 of the Agriculture
and Markets law, individuals may intervene if an animal is deprived of food
and water for 12 hours or more while confined. During this Vigil, activists
will exercise their right to provide water and food to thousands of
suffering 6-weeks-old chickens. They will cross NYPD barricades to
accomplish this basic act of decency for the tortured birds. 60,000 chickens
are crammed for days in plastic crates prior to the Kaporos ritual, which
includes merciless swinging by their delicate wings. Such handling causes
broken bones and torn ligaments as they scream in pain.
The ritual culminates in throat cutting at illegally rigged-up slaughter
stations, where children stuff the wounded birds into filthy traffic cones
to bleed to death slowly in pain and terror. 15+ laws are broken, more than
half of which are health codes, posing a significant public health risk (see
the toxicology report: [link removed]),
yet the NYPD aids this ritual thanks to Mayor de
Blasios craven desire to curry favor with this powerful voting bloc of the
Orthodox Jewish Community along with their donations to his political
campaigns.
WHO: The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos, Jewish Veg, Animal Save
Movement, Shamayim Jewish Animal Advocacy, Interfaith Vegan Coalition, In
Defense of Animals
WHEN: October 7th, Monday, 6:30pm
WHERE: Kingston and Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
WHY: Activists are holding this Mass Vigil and providing care to these
mistreated birds as an act of civic duty and compassion for the birds who
have been crated for days in the streets without food or water, and to
expose Mayor de Blasios deference to politics over the public interest.
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The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos is a project of United Poultry Concerns.
Formed in New York City in June 2010, the Alliance is an association of groups
and individuals who seek to replace the use of chickens in Kaporos ceremonies
with money or other non-animal symbols of atonement. The Alliance does not
oppose Kaporos per se, only the cruel and unnecessary use of chickens in the
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