Help us contact legislators who have the power to KILL THIS BILL!

We are requesting that you email three legislators - it should literally take a few minutes of your time, and could save the lives of thousands or millions of chickens.

Senator Gabbard sengabbard@capitol.hawaii.gov

Representative Hashem rephashem@Capitol.hawaii.gov

Representative Perruso repperruso@Capitol.hawaii.gov

This is our message to them. Please read it and then write up something from your heart. Short, concise, even a few sentences works!!

"SB2195 is a bad bill that should die in conference. There is good reason the DOA, DOH, DLNR testified in opposition and want little to do with it. This bill claims to be humane, but is no longer listing the supposed humane methods they plan to use; and ovo control or use of poisons that can risk exposure to endangered species or contaminate water sources in Hawaii should require an environmental impact statement. If you plan on catching and killing birds that should be made very clear (you will have many less fans of the bill; and it has been tried before with great expense and the population soon returned). Nowhere does this bill address human causes for increased population in certain areas including the dumping of birds by the cockfighting industry; without doing so it’s doomed to fail. As DLNR testified, chickens are not a concerning threat to native birds. They also recommend the issue be left to the counties, as each island has different circumstances. This bill mislead supporters to believe you will be solving the problem of the rooster in their backyard that wakes them up in the morning. This would be almost impossible and require immense resources and funding to even attempt it. This bill deserves a natural death, not the innocent chickens."

If you also want to see the latest version of the bill CLICK HERE. It has been updated - they now use the term "population control" because they realized people didn't like the word "eradicate", but we can imagine they have the same goal in mind. They also removed ovo control from their solution, and do not state anywhere how they plan to "humanely" control the population of chickens.

Mahalo. If can try to get your emails sent by Tuesday 4/26/22. 

*Thanks to Jasper for posing for this photo. He's a terrible feral Kauai chicken sitting in my lap. Sweet, protective, kinda horny, but my hens don't hold that against him.