Hope, beloved rescued hen courtesy of Carol and Scott Bartram, who wrote in 2017 how “As she gained strength and confidence, she was so joyful in her experience of a chickeny life . . .”

Isaac Bashevis Singer: No Evidence that Humans are More Important than Chickens

When Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer was asked why he refused to eat chicken, he said, "It's bad for the health of the chicken."

Regarding Isaac Bashevis Singer on chickens, his obituary in The New York Times Book Review, Aug. 11, 1991 stated:

He shied from chicken soup -- and chickens -- and became a devoted vegetarian. From childhood on he had seen that might makes right, that man is stronger than chicken -- man eats chicken, not vice versa. That bothered him, for there was no evidence that people were more important than chickens. When he lectured on life and literature there were often dinners in his honor, and sympathetic hosts served vegetarian meals. "So, in a very small way, I do a favor for the chickens," Singer said. "If I will ever get a monument, chickens will do it for me."

Today marks the conclusion of our annual International Respect for Chickens Day May 4/month of May. Let us PLEASE follow Isaac Bashevis Singer’s example by making Every Day Respect for Chickens Day. We thank everyone who has joined us in sharing their contribution to our annual campaign to bring chickens out of the Darkness of our doing into the Light of Chicken Liberation. Anything you did for chickens in May this year, please send to us to share on our IRCD webpage.

Thank you!