It would be a terrible irony if ethical vegans (by which I mean animal rights advocates) were to get “respect” at the expense of and as a substitute for the READ ON
Karen Davis: What’s Wrong with the New York Times Framing of Vegans?
If You Call Vegans Pushy, You’re Coming Down on the Wrong Side of History
Many people today take their “freedoms” and “rights” for granted without knowing the extent to which the freedoms and rights they take for granted were fought for by “radicals” who READ ON
State Rep Uses Ritual Killing of Chicken to Protest Abortion
Why did he do it? He didn’t need to videotape killing a chicken to convince antiabortionists, so was he targeting ambivalent voters who still support a woman’s right to make READ ON
The Dark and Deceptive Side of the Pet Food Industry
“Pet food” sounds animal-friendly, but behind the scenes, millions of baby chicks and adult birds are suffocated and shredded to death for pet food and farmed animal feed. Embryonic chick-sexing READ ON
“Broiler Breeder” Chickens: Their Misery Revealed
Karen Davis takes us inside the bleak and brutal world of “broiler breeder” chickens, the hens and roosters who produce the eggs that become the chicks who are slaughtered at READ ON
Is Chicken Really Healthier Than Red Meat?
With the recent WHO designation of processed meat as a carcinogen in the same class as tobacco, asbestos and diesel fumes, the news about meat is getting worse all the READ ON
Time to Spread the Joy
Between December 2014 and June 2015, more than 33 million chickens, turkeys and ducks were suffocated to death with firefighting foam and carbon dioxide in the Midwestern states of Iowa, READ ON
The Chicken Chronicles Part II: From Battery Cage to Sanctuary
The poultry industry represents chickens bred for food as mentally vacuous, eviscerated organisms. Hens bred for commercial egg production are said to be suited to a caged environment, with no READ ON
The Secret Life of Poultry Products
In this gripping account of the lives of chickens raised for meat, Karen Davis connects the appalling physical environments in which these birds are raised and the pathogens that contaminate READ ON
Small Town Grocer Issues Restraining Order Against Animal Advocate
We recently learned from one of our subscribers that a local natural grocery store that also owns a yoga and holistic healing center in a small town in New Hampshire READ ON
Contamination and Cruelty in the Chicken Industry
The National Chicken Council, which represents the U.S. chicken industry, has released its 2014 update of the NCC Animal Welfare Guidelines for the humane treatment of the nine billion chickens READ ON
Are Chickens Smarter Than Toddlers? A View of Cross-Species Comparisons
Allied with the attempt to place nonhuman animals in a cerebral hierarchy – who is smarter, a lizard or a lion, a penguin or a parrot, a chicken or a READ ON
Eliminating the Suffering of Chickens Bred for Meat
“The misery of egg-laying birds has been well-documented, but what about the life of chickens bred for eating?” Andrew Purvis, “Pecking Order,” The Guardian, Sept. 23, 2006. Chickens are the largest READ ON
Rejecting the Egg Bill Means Rejecting Cages
Under the terms of the 2013 Egg Bill sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California and Rep. Curt Schrader of Oregon, barren battery cages would be phased out over a READ ON
Moving Beyond the False Stereotypes of Turkeys
To understand the complex suffering of turkeys raised for “food,” it helps to know that in nature, young turkey siblings stay close to their mother for four or five months READ ON
ASPCA Promotes Compassion, Respect, and Now the Slaughter of Animals
ASPCA, one of the leading animal protection organizations, would have you believe that the killing of chickens, as shown in the photo here, can somehow constitute a humane practice, a READ ON
A Response to NPR’s Fresh Air Show: Assessing Consumer Concerns About the Meat Industry
If we really want to change the situation, we have to do more than endlessly call upon USDA, FDA, agribusiness and related entities to “do” something. We as consumers need READ ON
Proposed Legislation for Egg-Laying Hens: An Update
If it’s all right for an animal protection organization to lobby to ensure that an animal-abusing industry has “a secure future” and that consumers have “a dependable economic egg supply,” READ ON
Hatcheries Ship Male Chicks as Packing Material
Mark Bekoff of Psychology Today covers a story reported on by Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns exposing hatcheries that use baby male chicks as packaging filler in shipments of READ ON
Let’s Stop Pretending We Don’t Know What Animals Want
Animal rights means that other animal species have moral claims on us based on their nature as expressed in behaviors, including their voices, that tell us who they are and READ ON
