Karen Davis

For others with the same name see Karen Davis (disambiguation).

Karen Davis is the president of United Poultry Concerns, Inc., which she founded in 1990 as a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl and includes a sanctuary for domestic fowl.

She has a PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she taught for twelve years in the English department.

At the University of Maryland, Davis founded the Animal Rights Coalition in 1989, and she pioneered a course in the University Honors Program on the role of animals in the Western philosophic and literary tradition. Karen is a featured speaker at the annual National Animal Rights and Taking Action for Animals conferences in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. On July 2, 2002, Karen was inducted into the U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame "for outstanding contributions to animal liberation."^[1]

Since 1999, Karen and United Poultry Concerns have hosted six conferences on farmed animal advocacy issues.

Accomplishments

Karen Davis launched a campaign against NPR's "This American Life" for its annual Poultry Slam show, saying that host Ira Glass contributed to the slaughter of chickens everywhere. Eventually, Glass visited Davis' chicken sanctuary and became a vegetarian.^[2]

Davis was one of several people who provided information used in the writing of the book Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism (2008) by Mark Hawthorne.

Davis wrote a chapter of Lisa Kemmerer's 2011 anthology Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice.^[3]

Publications

Books

• Instead of Chicken Instead of Turkey: A Poultryless "Poultry" Potpourri : Featuring Homestyle, Ethnic, and Exotic Alternatives to Traditional Poultry and Egg Recipes (Book Publishing Co.), ISBN 1-570-67083-8
• Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry (Book Publishing Co.), ISBN 1-570-67032-3
• More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality (Lantern Books), ISBN 1-930-05188-3
• The Holocaust and the Henmaid’s Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities (Lantern Books), ISBN 1-590-56091-4

Articles

Her articles have appeared in The Faculty Voice (University of Maryland), Journal of English and Germanic Philology, English Language Notes, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Between the Species: A Journal of Ethics, and many other publications. She’s been published in the New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washingtonian, Chicago Tribune, Columbus Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Harper’s Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Nation, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times, “Dear Abby,” Egg Industry, Feedstuffs, Satya and has appeared on the Howard Stern Show.

Karen has essays in Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations (Duke UP, 1995), Terrorists or Freedom Fighters: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals (Lantern Books, 2004), and Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Studies Journal Vol. 2, No. 2 (Center on Animal Liberation Affairs, 2005).

See also

• Women and animal advocacy

References

1. ^ "U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame". arconference.org. http://arconference.org/ARHOF.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-02. 
2. ^ "Ira Glass on David Letterman". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP02yahsoCw#t=04m08s. Retrieved 2010-12-02. 
3. ^ Kemmerer, Lisa A., ed (2011-05-23). Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252078118. http://books.google.com/books?id=0ngDIsiy5-oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Sister+Species:+Women,+Animals,+and+Social+Justice#v=onepage&q&f=false. Lay summary.  Foreword by Carol J. Adams

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