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For many, living a greener life not only means avoiding the standard meat-based diet but it also means tending to our furry, scaly, and feathered friends. Pattrice Jones is an ecofeminist educator, activist, and writer. She is the author of Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies. Pattrice is also co-founder of the Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center, the first sanctuary to develop a method of rehabilitating roosters used in cockfighting. Former fighters live in harmony with other birds—including other roosters—within the flocks at the sanctuary.
Pattrice explains the rooster rehab: "Roosters confiscated from cockfighting operations used to be automatically euthanized, on the presumption that they were too aggressive to ever live peacefully with other birds. But that's the propaganda of cockfighting enthusiasts, who argue that they are just watching roosters doing what comes naturally. In fact, chickens—like the wild jungle fowl from which they descended and to whom the birds used in cockfighting are very nearly genetically identical—naturally live in flocks in which multiple roosters coexist peacefully. Roosters in the wild fight to the death only against predators, not against each other! They sometimes will have highly stylized fights with each other, but these are not the pitched battles to the death that we see in cockfighting."
To learn more about how you can get involved and helped, pay a visit to BraveBirds.
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