The new York Mets’ new team mascot, “Little Jerry Seinfeld,” has found a permanent home. The chicken will be heading to Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y., according to a spokesperson for the sanctuary. Lefty reliever Tim Byrdak, who came up with the idea to purchase the chicken and didn’t want to see it killed, [...]
Safe! Baseball’s oddest bird, the Mets mascot named little Jerry Seinfeld, has arrived at the upstate animal shelter where she’ll live out her life pecking and scratching in relative bliss. Little Jerry took her first cautious steps at 175-acre Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen just after 3:30 p.m. yesterday, then joined the flock, most of [...]
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Baseball flap: Tim Byrdak of the new York Mets, with members of the Farm Sanctuary, holds a chicken named Litte Jerry Seinfeld. Picture: AFP Source: AFP THE new York Mets' good-luck clubhouse chicken has been sent down to the farm after the team lost to the Yankees at the weekend. The brassy bird – dubbed [...]
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ATLANTA, Georgia, Mar 16 (IPS) – With increasing concerns about the economy and environmental sustainability on the minds of many U.S. citizens, leaders in the grassroots movement to promote urban chicken-keeping report a renewed interest in their cause. According to the animal rights group Farm Sanctuary, nearly 10 billion chickens and over a quarter billion [...]
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On July 7, 2011 The United Egg Producers, the trade group comprised of the most abusive of farmed animal industries, agreed to support federal legislation that will, upon enactment, improve the welfare of all laying hens in the nation. Until now, the UEP supported industry practices that make existence a living hell for chickens. it [...]
