Putting The ‘Chick’ In Chicken!
[guest post by Dana]
Here’s a little Ebola relief: Kelly Atlas of Oakland, who is a member of the animal liberation activist group Direct Action Everywhere, interrupted diners at a French brasserie called Bluestemspoke with an emotional plea for her “little girl” – who happens to be her pet rescue-chicken…named “Snow”. Yes. With increasing nuttiness emotion, she begged customers to think about her “little girl” and all the other little girls like her when considering what was on their plates:
“She was very abused for her entire life,” Atlas says. “She was terrified.
“She has a very determined look in her eyes wherever she goes. And she was hurt and abused her entire life because of this establishment and establishments like it.”
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The tears continuing to stream and the emotion heightening, Atlas goes on to tell restaurant patrons how she saved Snow’s life. “Someone was going to murder her,” she says. “I went in there with other humans and I took her out of there and if I hadn’t, she wouldn’t be with me right now. She would be gone, just like all of her sisters.”
Someone was going to murder her and I can see you smiling and I can see you laughing but to her this is not funny.”
In response to the reporting on this, Direct Action Everywhere released this statement:
Direction Action Everywhere: “Violent corporations and traditions tell us that animals such as Snow are just things,” DxE activist Wayne Hsiung said. “But Snow is a living, breathing individual with the same feelings that your dog has – or that you and I have. And people across the world are waking up to that reality.”
*Customers, annoyed that their food had gone cold, clucked at Atlas as they flew the coop choosing instead to eat at at a neighboring joint. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Seems they all got a hankering…
–Dana
*That last part may or may not have happened… I wasn’t there. No harm, no fowl…