From Animal Defenders of Westchester (ADOW)

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Don't Insult Chickens

Letter as published in New York Daily News, NYDailyNews.com
December 1, 2025

https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/01/readers-sound-off-on-the-epstein-scandal-trafficking-hypocrisy-and-a-playwrights-passing/

Tuckahoe, NY.: How pathetic that the Daily News tried to mine pseudo-clever wordplay points at the expense of a poor, frightened little chicken left alone on a train (“Loose chicken fouls train,” Nov. 21). This animal was abandoned. Did you think she signed a lease? Chickens are intelligent animals who prefer being clean, and clean themselves with dust baths and preening. Mama chickens love their babies and talk to their chicks while still in the egg, and the babies peep back. But their natural life is robbed from them, and sadly, their babies are taken from them immediately after birth. Then 300 million male chicks who won’t lay eggs are slaughtered by either being ground up alive or gassed in hatcheries. Instead of mocking them, have a little decency and compassion for helpless, silent victims who can’t defend themselves. You’d make a mess yourself if you were trapped in a box. Kiley Blackman

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