Robin... Rescued after Kaporos Brutality
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September 2018

I've never actually witnessed movement inside of a bag myself. I immediately said something and then one of the activists opened the bag and took out this still alive chicken.

kaporos victim

The highlight of my kaporos trip this year happened when kaporos had basically just ended. On the morning of September 18th I went to the major kaporos site in the crown heights area of Brooklyn on President and Kingston to document the never ending trash bags of dead chickens being picked up by a garbage truck. As I got there chickens were still being swung for the kaporos ritual and killed but they weren't going in trash bags anymore, they were just piling up on the ground, piling up in the police-provided kill cones, and piling up in barrels.

So many chickens were used and killed for this that maybe they even ran out of trash bags to put them all in.

As I stood by the stolen life trash bags I noticed movement in one of them. This was shocking and not shocking at the same time as I was aware that chickens get thrown alive in the trash and dumpsters during kaporos every year, but I've never actually witnessed movement inside of a bag myself. I immediately said something and then one of the activists opened the bag and took out this still alive chicken.

kaporos victim

This poor baby had a slit throat, but she survived that and she survived being trapped inside a steamy bag with lots of dead bodies. I thought she would be dead in just a few minutes, but as I type this right now she is still alive. Her name is Robin.

She had gone through an expensive and risky surgery yesterday, but she miraculously pulled through. She is a kaporos survivor, a kaporos survivor like no other. She made it through all the filth and torture that industrial farming entails, she made it through being thrown into a crate in the middle of the night by someone she couldn't even see, she made it through being trucked in a disgusting and cramped crate without any access to food or water, she made it through being picked up and swung in the air over and over again while a superstitious prayer was being spoken, she made it through having her throat slit and being tossed into a street cone like garbage that these people view chickeans as.

Right now she is getting better and is being cared for by the owner of the microsanctuary Penelope's Place, a place that's been sanctuary to many kaporos survivors of the past and present. Please share this story and donate to Penelope's Place fundraiser if you can."

UPDATE... Robin on grass just a few days after being rescued:

Robin Chick

To learn more, visit Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos.

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