Interview with Karen Davis

Photo by Doris Lin.

Every animal activist has a story about how they became involved in the animal rights movement. In a detailed interview, Karen Davis, Founder of United Poultry Concerns, talks about how she became an activist in the early days of the modern animal rights movement. Davis recounts growing up with hunters, working with animal rights pioneer Henry Spira, and dealing with negativity within the movement when she decided to focus on chickens. And find out why she used to follow Frank Perdue to the bathroom.

Links:

• Karen Davis Interview
  
• What is Happy Meat?
  
• Timeline of the Modern Animal Rights Movement
  
• "Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of Apology" by Karen Davis
  
• United Poultry Concerns - Official Site