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6 May 2010
Journal for Critical Animal Studies – April 2010 Issue
“Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look At The Modern Poultry Industry.”
Review by artist Dylan Ravenfox. http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/?page_id=387

Karen Davis’s “Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry” exhibits an exquisite assemblage of well-researched material documented with scrutiny and care, compellingly supported by compassionate, direct, and immediate experience–visual, audible, somatic, and olfactory–of the conditions affecting the animals themselves. While the writing is eloquent and, at points, profoundly poetic, it is nonetheless extremely difficult to read. The atrocities it narrates pass far beyond human understanding, even make one want to stick one’s head in the oven.

Read the entire review: www.upc-online.org/bookreviews/pcpe_jcas_review.pdf

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