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2 December 2019

"Poultry Slam" Clarified: Verbal Cruelty

Dear Friends,

Some confusion was expressed yesterday by some readers about whether the
"Poultry Slam" involved physical slamming of chickens and other birds. No! We'd
be filing cruelty charges if that were the case. See Open Letter to Ira Glass
and This American Life:
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To clarify: The show, which ran for about a decade from the mid-1990s on This
American Life, hosted by Ira Glass, features a variety of voices telling
anecdotes about chickens, turkeys and other domestic fowl. It features
sarcastic, mean-spirited humor directed against the birds.

The storytellers are typically rural-sounding, and some are professional writers
representing a farmer's outlook. We ran a huge campaign to get the show off the
air and educate Ira Glass about who chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and others
are in their own right, and, finally got his attention.

Unfortunately, reruns of the "Poultry Slam" continue airing each fall between
Thanksgiving and Christmas, so that the same vicious attitudes are recycled year
after year on This American Life and NPR.

In 2006, in response to our campaign, Ira Glass invited me to be on the show as
an advocate for the birds. I said I would, but only if he agreed, first, to
visit our sanctuary and meet the birds the "poultry slam" slams. He graciously
visited, and my "voice" was inserted into the show that year.

Later, in 2007, Ira Glass appeared on NPR's satirical quiz show, "Wait, Wait
Don't Tell Me," and then on Late Night with David Letterman, where he described
his visit to our sanctuary and how meeting our chickens caused him to feel
sympathy for them and to stop eating them and become a vegetarian. - Karen Davis

Ira Glass Tells David Letterman how Karen & her chickens led him to become a
vegetarian:
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What Can I Do?

* Send an email expressing your concerns to: [email protected].
* Post a comment urging that the "Poultry Slam" be permanently removed from the
airwaves by clicking this link to This American Life's Facebook page:
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Thank you for speaking up and speaking out!
United Poultry Concerns

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United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes
the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
Don't just switch from beef to chicken. Go Vegan.
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