Home | What's New? | News Releases | Action Alerts | PoultryPress | Resources | Merchandise | Links | E-mail Thinking Like a Chicken Philosophical Essays & Published Letters About Chickens & Other Domestic Fowl http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=637541 Thinking Like a Chicken: Farm Animals and the Feminine Connection "Only Connect." Is Boiling a Lobster a Bonding Experience? 13 June 2011 What Happened to Peter Singer? 14 April 2011 Chicken-Human Relationships: From Procrustean Genocide to Empathic Anthropomorphism Myth of Sustainable Poultry and Danger of the Local The Social Life of Chickens The Dignity, Beauty, and Abuse of Chickens: As Symbols and in Reality The Life of One Battery Hen For the Birds, The Washington Post, Nov. 14,1999 Moving Beyond...The Rhetoric of Apology in Animal Rights Sentience and Intelligence Chicken Talk The "Human" Nature of Pigeons Is Anthropomorphism a Dirty Word? Why Animals Matter Says It Is! 9 May 2012 Klinka the Hen Saves a Bird of Another Species - By Kim Bartlett 19 January 2012 Psychology Today Article About Animal Emotions and Intelligence 10 March 2011 05/27/10: Thoughts on the North Pole chicken-killing episode 07/14/09: Pain and Suffering in Birds Poultry Sentience and Intelligence The Animal Question in Anthropology: A Commentary Frederick (Rescued rooster, now UPC resident) 7/08/08: “No, Chickens aren’t stupid.” Letter by UPC President Karen Davis in The Plain Dealer Letters section, July 2, 2008. 7/17/07: Chickens are more evolved than previously believed 2/19/07: Is It Unscientific to Say that an Animal is Happy? (Also in Spring 2007 Poultry Press) 11/13/06: UPC Letter for Chickens in New Haven Register 8/08/05: UPC Has a Letter in the August 1 issue of Feedstuffs 2/14/05: UPC President Karen Davis’s Letter was in The Washington Post Sat. Feb. 12, 2005 Compassion in World Farming Trust's new site on Animal Sentience Behaviour Fasting: An Interview With Karen Davis Chickens are Foragers, Not Fighters 6/27/04: Can "Fighting" Roosters Be Rehabilitated? 6/27/05: Do Roosters Naturally Fight? UPC Letter in Oct 2002 Harper's Magazine Animal Rights Moving Beyond...The Rhetoric of Apology in Animal Rights Animal Liberation, Critical Theory, and Critique of Locavorism! Are you hungry for academic food for thought? Then check these out . . . 13 March 2012 “It Takes Courage to Support Animals’ Dignity” by UPC President Karen Davis 15 December 2011 (Also in UPC Winter 2011-2012 Poultry Press) From Hunting Grounds to Chicken Rights: My Story in An Eggshell UPC Fall 2011 Poultry Press Book Review: Critical Theory and Animal Liberation 23 May 2011 Fall 08 PP: I Use My Discontent to Make a Difference 10/15/08: Oprah Winfrey on Farmed Animals, October 14, 2008 06/15/07: Every Living Beating Heart 2/13/04: When Murdering Animals Makes Sense Avoiding Burnout Bestiality: Animal Liberation or Human License? Chickens and Chimpanzees: The Odd Couple of the Animal Rights Movement UPC President Karen Davis's Letter in the March 2003 Atlantic Monthly Don't Plants Have Feelings Too? EXPANDING The Great Ape Project The Future of the Animal Rights Movement Animal Equality(Joan Dunayer Speech at 2002 Austrian AR Conf) Animal Rights and Other Social Justice Movements from "Is Letter Writing Enough?" Staging a Successful Protest Undoing A "Done Deal" How We Kept a Chicken Company Out of Simpson County, KY Veganism Philosophic Vegetarianism: Acting Affirmatively for Peace A Model of The Perfect Vegan thevegantruth.blogspot.com - 9 January 2011 Promoting & Practicing a Vegan Diet: Easy for Some, Hard for Others? 10 May 2011 (Also in UPC Summer 2011 Poultry Press) 3/16/04: UPC Letter In Harper's Magazine , April 2004 Also: Important Thoughts from Deep Vegetarianism Turkeys Thanksgiving in America UPC Fall 2011 Poultry Press Ritual Sacrifice: “The reduction of living beings to objects upon whom atrocities can be heaped.” Fall-Winter 2009 Poultry Press 11/26/08: UPC Speaks Out for the Mother Turkey and Her Young vs. the Horror of the Hatchery 12/01/06: UPC Guest Column, “A Tale of Two Turkeys” 12/04/03: Turkeys: much smarter than you think "Inadmissable" Comparisons 2/17/06: Forced Labor on the Factory Farm 2/17/06:The Gestapo of the Human Spirit 9/06/05: "Animal suffering similar to human slaves'" by UPC President Karen Davis is today’s featured letter in the Chicago Sun-Times 1/06/05: UPC President Karen Davis's "A Tale of Two Holocausts" is in Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Studies Journal The Difference Between the Dallas Zoo and McDonald's 05/15/02 Letter: Comparing animal slaughter to Holocaust victims is fair An Open Letter to Vegan Voice Re:Singer's Disparagement of Chickens Chickens in Music & Arts 15 Minutes of Shame: "The Story of Chickens" - Art and life in an age of doublespeak. 21 March 2012 1/7/09: Framed! Vegan artists for animal rights: Mary Britton Clouse - for the wonderful Chicken 8/11/05: Listen to Beautiful Chicken Music by Composer Pianist Kit Armstrong Tributes 11/12/07: Watch “For the Love of Chickens” on Supreme Master TV 6/22/07: United Poultry Concerns Pays Tribute to Gretchen Wyler 12/19/06: Tribute to Virgil Butler, Who Died December 15 The Place of United Poultry Concerns in the Chronology of Humane Progress (from Moses to Walt Disney) Winter/Spring 2000 PP: Washington Post article "For The Birds" Wins Ark Trust Genesis Award! 11/14/99: For the Birds, The Washington Post, Nov. 14,1999 Home | What's New? | News Releases | Action Alerts | PoultryPress | Resources | Merchandise | Links | E-mail