“To accept the environmentalist argument that the suffering of individual animals is inconsequential compared to the ozone layer, we must be willing to admit that the sufferings of minority groups, raped women, battered wives, abused children, people sitting on death… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“The recognition that human beings are specifically and deliberately responsible for whatever aberrances farm animals may embody, that their discordances reflect our, not their, primary disruption of natural rhythms, and that we owe them more rather than less for having… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“To accept the environmentalist argument that the suffering of individual animals is inconsequential compared to the ozone layer, we must be willing to admit… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“Thus far, our responsibility for how we treat chickens and allow them to be treated in our culture is dismissed with blistering rhetoric designed… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“More laying hens are slaughtered in the United States than cattle or pigs. Commercial laying hens are not bred for their flesh, but when… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“Genetic selection for early egg production, to reduce time and money 'wasted' on feeding and housing unproductive birds for six months, results in eggs… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“The idea that human beings cannot logically recognize suffering in a chicken, or draw meaningful conclusions about how a human would react to the… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.” — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“I am a battery hen. I live in a cage so small I cannot stretch my wings. I am forced to stand night and… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“The recognition that human beings are specifically and deliberately responsible for whatever aberrances farm animals may embody, that their discordances reflect our, not their,… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“I have been impressed by the realization that a few men have virtually 'decided' what experiences count and even exist in the world. The… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“The plea for ethical veganism, which rejects the treatment of birds and other animals as a food source or other commodity, is sometimes mistaken… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
