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United Poultry Concerns
President Karen Davis Presents “An Inside Look at the Modern
Poultry Industry” at University of Wisconsin Whitewater Campus
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| Tuesday, February 25 U.S. poultry production is currently a 21.2 billion industry, slaughtering 8.7 billion birds a year. Karen Davis, PhD will offer an inside look into this business—the history of its growth, its impact on the environment, its responsibility for human illness, its treatment of workers, and its abuse of animals. Davis is President-Director of United Poultry Concerns, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl. She is the author of Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry and More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality. Free brochures and fact sheets will be available. United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl. For more information visit www.UPC-online.org
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