How Can We Promote Respect For Chickens? 8 July 2025 How Can We Promote Respect For Chickens? An Interview with Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns He felt her beating heart and soft feathers and flesh as a revelation of her reality as a fellow creature, no longer “something to eat.” The Idea Of “Chicken” As Food As Opposed To Chickens As Sentient Beings With Agency Is Deeply Ingrained In Our Culture. How Do We Change Hearts And Minds? I believe we change hearts and minds by helping people to perceive chickens and relate to them as individuals who, when they are not mistreated, are full of observable vitality, desires and interests in their own right. I seek to educate people about chickens I have known by writing and talking about them and by sharing photographs and videos and by inviting people to visit our sanctuary and meet our chickens. My essay “The Social Life of Chickens” has inspired many readers to tell me how much it awakened them to the personalities and feelings and individuality of chickens. A man once told me that when he rescued a hen for the first time and held her in his arms, he felt her beating heart and soft feathers and flesh as a revelation of her reality as a fellow creature, no longer “something to eat.” – Karen Davis Karen Davis with Rainbow. Photo: Unparalleled Suffering In honor of International Respect for Chickens Day, May 4th, Species Unite, a media outlet designed to transition the world off animal products with well-researched solutions, published a wide-ranging Interview with Karen Davis on April 30, 2023, curated by bestselling author Anjali Banerjee, on “How Can We Promote Respect For Chickens?” This is one of the many topics they covered. The full interview can be read on Species Unite and on our website page, “Thinking Like a Chicken.” Karen's Interview United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl. Don't just switch from beef to chicken. Go Vegan. www.UPC-online.org View this article online United Poultry Concerns | PO Box 150, Machipongo, VA 23405 Unsubscribe {recipient's email} Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected] powered by Try email marketing for free today!