Thinking Like a Chicken
Philosophical Essays & Published Letters About Chickens & Other Domestic Fowl
Featured Sentience and Intelligence Behavior Animal Rights Veganism Turkeys “Inadmissable” Comparisons Chickens in Music and Art Tributes
Thinking Like a Chicken Podcasts
Featured
2023
- “Animal Liberation Now”: Nothing to Crow About 30 May 2023
- International Respect for Chickens Day/month of May:
Images and Words of Kindness and Respect for Our Feathered Friends 9 May 2023 - How Can We Promote Respect For Chickens?
An Interview With Karen Davis Of United Poultry Concerns 2 May 2023 - Can We Assume Consciousness or Happiness in Other Animals? 13 January 2023
- WILD ANIMALS AND HUMAN LIFE - Savage Din, Soft Lyre and the Call of Wild Natures 6 January 2023
2022
- Why Are Farmed Animals Forsaken – By Their Advocates? 27 December 2022
- Podcast: Violated Expectations in the Experience of Factory-Farmed Chickens 17 June 2022
- Animal Rights versus “End Cruelty” 29 May 2022
- Rachel Schelter - Opinion: ‘Chicken Out’ May 4 on International Respect for Chickens Day 4 May 2022
- On International Respect for Chickens Day, Try Thinking About Them Differently 27 April 2022
- FEATHERED FRIENDS: A Profile of UPC President Karen Davis 2 April 2022
- New Podcast: Should Animal Advocates “Pretend To Be More Optimistic”? 24 January 2022
- Blurring the Boundary Between Humans and Other Animals 20 January 2022
- A Request: “Pretend to Be More Optimistic” 14 January 2022
2021
- What Does It Mean to Be an “Animal Lover”? 7 January 2022
- Does Guilt Have a Place in Animal Rights Activism? 6 December 2021
- Moral Injury in Animal Advocates and Nonhuman Animals and the Commonality of Being Reduced to “Lesser Beings” 27 October 2021
- If Plants Have Feelings, How Does This Affect Our Advocacy for Animals? 22 August 2021
- Employing Euphemism to Falsify the Fate of Farmed Animals 21 August 2021
- Regarding the Pain of Farmed Animals 1 August 2021
- Do Chickens Mind Seeing Other Chickens Traumatized in Their Presence? 1 May 2021
- “Animals Deserve Gender Pronouns, Too” by NPR’s Scott Simon, April 3, 2021 4 April 2021
- “Chickens Talk” Via UPC President Karen Davis on Vegan India! 28 March 2021
- Groups Urge Associated Press to Update Animal Pronouns 26 March 2021
2020
- Can Killing an Animal Be Compensated For by the Creation of a New Animal? 6 November 2020
- Artist Sue Coe Casts “a Critical Eye, From the Slaughterhouse to the White House” 22 October 2020
- An Open Letter to The Guardian 20 August 2020
- Living and Learning the Life of a Captive Animal – In a Zoo or in Any Cage 15 August 2020
- Slaughterhouse Workers, Farmed Animals, and Animal Advocates: Can There Be Justice For All? 28 July 2020
- Understanding Euthanasia: When Life and Words Become Worthless 18 June 2020
- What’s Love Got to Do with It? 19 May 2020
- Unending Quarantine: We Are Not the Only Ones 10 May 2020
- Birth of a Baby Chicken: An Easter Story 11 April 2020
- Assuming Chickens Suffer Less than Pigs is Idle Speciesism 2 April 2020
- Wet Markets or Walmart? Animal Consumption & the Coronavirus 31 January 2020
(Also in UPC Summer 2020 Poultry Press) - Plane Crashes and Slaughterhouses: Who Suffers More? 15 January 2020
2019
- Saturday, February 29: Overlapping Oppressions: Register Now for Our Conscious Eating Conference 6 January 2020
- Chickens or Pigs: Would You Pick One to Suffer More? 23 December 2019
- Turkeys: Sympathy, Sensibility, and Sentience 19 November 2019
- Chickens are Courageous Birds. They are NOT Cowards, or a Trope for Human Cowardice 10 November 2019
(Also in UPC Winter-Spring 2020 Poultry Press) - Marc Bekoff Interviews Karen Davis For The Birds: From Exploitation to Liberation 20 June 2019
- Experiencing Chickens and Restoring Their Earth Rights 3 May 2019
- The Fight for 40 Billion: The Voice of United Poultry Concerns 4 April 2019
2018
- Chickens: Their Life and Death in Farming Operations 1 October 2018
- Last Words on Anthony Bourdain & His “Vegan” Fan Club 24 June 2018
- Regarding Anthony Bourdain: Thank You for Reading and Writing 21 June 2018
- Honoring Anthony Bourdain 17 June 2018
- Are Feminists Right to Resist Comparison with the Females of Other Species? 9 June 2018
- The Hen is a Symbol of Motherhood for Reasons We May Have Forgotten, So Let Us Recall 12 May 2018
(Also in UPC Summer 2018 Poultry Press) - Memes Created for International Respect for Chickens Month 8 May 2018
- For the Love of Chickens in Honor of International Respect for Chickens Day 27 April 2018 (Published on Alternet.org)
- Should Farmed Animals Be Genetically Modified to Remove Their Capacity to Feel Pain? 10 April 2018
- Talking About Animals: Our Advocacy for Better or Worse Presented by Karen Davis at Thinking About Animals Conference, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario on 1 March 2018
2017
- Disengaged Journalism & The Disparagement & Disappearance of Animals 1 December 2017
- A Rebuttal to Matt Ball’s Vegan Bash 28 June 2017
- Interspecies Sexual Assault: A Moral Perspective 12 June 2017
- Anthropomorphic Visions of Chickens Bred for Human Consumption 7 June 2017
2016
- “Broiler Breeder” Chickens: Their Misery Revealed 26 August 2016
- “BIRDS: The Need For Avian Advocacy” Now Posted! 9 June 2016
2015
- Culturally Rationalized Forms of Chicken Sacrifice: The Kaporos Ritual & the Chicken Project 28 September 2015
- A Is for Animal: The Animal User’s Lexicon 5 October 2015
- Open Rescues: How UPC Introduced This Strategy to U.S. Activists 9 August 2015
- Nicholas Kristof’s “To Kill a Chicken,” March 14, 2015 20 March 2015
2014
- From Hunting Grounds to Chicken Rights: My Story in an Eggshell 29 December 2014
- Custom Heavy as Frost and Deep Almost as Life - What Do We Mean By Socialization? 16 December 2014 (Also in UPC Spring 2015 Poultry Press)
- Animal Personhood: Journal of Evolution and Technology 2014 30 October 2014
- Single-Issue Campaigns and Abolition/Vegan Advocacy: What Would a Chicken Say? 17 July 2014 (Also in UPC Fall 2015 Poultry Press)
- Chicken or Broiler, Cow or Steer, Owner or Guardian?
- Liberating the Language of Animal Abuse 1 May 2014 - Chicken Behavior: An Overview of Recent Science 4 March 2014
2013 & earlier
- Are Chickens Smarter Than Toddlers? 19 August 2013
- 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
- A Tale of Two Holocausts 6 January 2005
- 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
Frederick (Rescued rooster, now UPC resident)
2023
- How Can We Promote Respect For Chickens?
An Interview With Karen Davis Of United Poultry Concerns 2 May 2023 - False Equivalencies Between Humans and Other Animals 17 March 2023
- Podcast: Do Chickens Mind Seeing Other Chickens Killed in Their Presence? 10 March 2023
2022
2021
- Moral Injury in Animal Advocates and Nonhuman Animals and the Commonality of Being Reduced to “Lesser Beings” 27 October 2021
- If Plants Have Feelings, How Does This Affect Our Advocacy for Animals? 22 August 2021
- Do Chickens Mind Seeing Other Chickens Traumatized in Their Presence? 1 May 2021
2020
- Bird Brainpower and Rescuing Pigeons with Elizabeth Young 10 July 2020
- Marc Bekoff, PhD: “Who’s For Dinner?” 1 July 2020
- Are Chickens Sentient Beings? – On Being a Mother Hen 18 April 2020
- Assuming Chickens Suffer Less than Pigs is Idle Speciesism 2 April 2020
- Plane Crashes and Slaughterhouses: Who Suffers More? 15 January 2020
2019
- Chickens or Pigs: Would You Pick One to Suffer More? 23 December 2019
- Turkeys: Sympathy, Sensibility, and Sentience 19 November 2019
2017
- Anthropomorphic Visions of Chickens Bred for Human Consumption 7 June 2017
- Animals or Machines: Whom Do You Love? 9 February 2017
2016
- Chickens With Dignity - UPC President Karen Davis’s Letter Published on The New York Times 26 January 2016 (Also in UPC Spring 2016 Poultry Press)
2015
- Pigeons are smarter than you think! 4 February 2015 - www.enn.com
2014
- The Emotional Lives of Animals and Children: Insights from a Farm Sanctuary 21 October 2014
- “The Startling Intelligence of the Common Chicken,” Scientific American 30 January 2014
2013
- Respecting Chickens, New York Daily News 21 August 2013
- Rejecting Michael Pollan: UPC Letter Published in July SMITHSONIAN on Behalf of Chickens 10 July 2013
- Chicken Talk
- The "Human" Nature of Pigeons
- Parrot Breeding and Keeping: The Impact of Capture and Captivity, by G.A. Bradshaw and Monica Engebretson, Animals and Society Institute, 2013 19 June 2013
- American Meat Producer Says Chickens Don't Feel Pain 23 April 2013
- Eliminating the Suffering of Chickens Bred for Meat 24 February 2013
- Pet Chicken Saves Family from Household Fire: Who Will Save Chickens from Fires in Their Houses? 1 January 2013
2012
- In Conversation with Dr. Karen Davis: Of Practical Applications of Trans-species Psychology, Of Demystifying Anthropomorphism, and Of The Holocaust and the Henmaid's Tale 17 December 2012
- "The Chicken Story Retold" on Vegan India! 6 September 2012
- 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
2011 &earlier
- Psychology Today Article About Animal Emotions and Intelligence 10 March 2011
- Thoughts on the North Pole chicken-killing episode 27 May 2010
- Pain and Suffering in Birds 14 July 2009
- Poultry Sentience and Intelligence
- The Animal Question in Anthropology: A Commentary
- “No, Chickens aren’t stupid.” Letter by UPC President Karen Davis in The Plain Dealer Letters section, July 2, 2008. 8 July 2008
- Chickens are more evolved than previously believed 17 July 2007
- Is It Unscientific to Say that an Animal is Happy? 18 February 2007 (Also in Spring 2007 Poultry Press)
- UPC Letter for Chickens in New Haven Register 13 November 2006
- UPC Has a Letter in the August 1 issue of Feedstuffs 8 August 2005
- UPC President Karen Davis’s Letter was in The Washington Post Sat. Feb. 12, 2005 14 February 2005
- Compassion in World Farming Trust's new site on Animal Sentience
Behavior
2023
- The Hen is a Symbol of Motherhood for Reasons We May Have Forgotten, So Let Us Recall 11 May 2023
- Podcast: Sarah, the Hen: Her Legs Were Made for Walking 7 May 2023
- How Can We Promote Respect For Chickens?
An Interview With Karen Davis Of United Poultry Concerns 2 May 2023 - Can We Assume Consciousness or Happiness in Other Animals? 13 January 2023
2022
- Rachel Schelter - Opinion: ‘Chicken Out’ May 4 on International Respect for Chickens Day 4 May 2022
- On International Respect for Chickens Day, Try Thinking About Them Differently 27 April 2022
- Chicken Talk: The Language of Chickens by Karen Davis 22 March 2022
- The Importance of Mothers by Bill Crain of Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary 10 February 2022
- Man seen walking rooster on a leash in Ohio 19 January 2022 - Facebook
2021
- In Praise of Roosters 19 September 2021
- Do Chickens Mind Seeing Other Chickens Traumatized in Their Presence? 1 May 2021
- “Chickens Talk” Via UPC President Karen Davis on Vegan India! 28 March 2021
2020
- Birth of a Baby Chicken: An Easter Story 11 April 2020
2019
- Turkeys: Sympathy, Sensibility, and Sentience 19 November 2019
- Chickens are Courageous Birds. They are NOT Cowards, or a Trope for Human Cowardice 10 November 2019
(Also in UPC Winter-Spring 2020 Poultry Press) - Chickens Are NOT Cannibals 28 August 2019
2018
- For the Love of Chickens in Honor of International Respect for Chickens Day 27 April 2018 (Published on Alternet.org)
- The “Easter” Chick - A Lost Soul 28 March 2018
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2016 & earlier
- Happy hens, free of factory farms, don’t peck each other 21 August 2016 (Also in UPC Fall 2016 Poultry Press)
- Mother Hen and Chick Scene from "Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home," a Tribe of Heart documentary - vimeo.com
- Fasting: An Interview With Karen Davis
- Chickens are Foragers, Not Fighters
- Do Roosters Naturally Fight? 27 June 2005
- Can "Fighting" Roosters Be Rehabilitated? 27 June 2004
- UPC Letter in Oct 2002 Harper's Magazine 20 September 2002
Animal Rights
2023
- “Animal Liberation Now”: Nothing to Crow About 30 May 2023
- How Can We Promote Respect For Chickens?
An Interview With Karen Davis Of United Poultry Concerns 2 May 2023 - MIXING WITHOUT PAIN: Animal Rights and/or Deep Ecology by Karen Davis 21 February 2023
2022
- Why Are Farmed Animals Forsaken – By Their Advocates? 27 December 2022
- Animal Rights versus “End Cruelty” 29 May 2022
2021
- What Does It Mean to Be an “Animal Lover”? 7 January 2022
- Does Guilt Have a Place in Animal Rights Activism? 6 December 2021
- The Animals Voice Magazine is Now Available! 28 August 2021
- The Challenge Facing Animal Rights 25 August 2021
- I Stopped Saying “Meat” and Here’s Why 18 February 2021
2020
- Wet Markets or Walmart? Animal Consumption & the Coronavirus 31 January 2020
2018
- Last Words on Anthony Bourdain & His “Vegan” Fan Club 24 June 2018
- Honoring Anthony Bourdain 17 June 2018
2017
- Are Disability Rights and Animal Rights Connected? 6 June 2017
- Moving Beyond...The Rhetoric of Apology in Animal Rights
2016
- We Don’t Need to Slaughter a Sheep to Learn “Where Our Food Comes From” 17 November 2016
(Also in UPC Spring 2017 Poultry Press)
2015
- Animal Rights Vegan Guilt 30 September 2015 (Also in UPC Spring 2016 Poultry Press)
- WAYNE CREED Pays a Visit to United Poultry Concerns 23 February 2015
(Also in UPC Summer 2015 Poultry Press) - Like the Foul Stable - What I Learned on a Family Farm, by Gracia Fay Ellwood 4 January 2015
2014
- The Secret Life of Poultry Products 24 July 2014 (Also in UPC Fall 2014 Poultry Press)
- Single-Issue Campaigns and Abolition/Vegan Advocacy: What Would a Chicken Say? 17 July 2014
- Animal Liberation & Social Justice: Theory & Testimony 5 June 2014
- Chickens’ Lib: The Story of a Campaign UPC Spring 2014 Poultry Press
- Personhood Beyond the Human 11 December 2013 (Similar article in UPC Spring 2014 Poultry Press)
- If You Give a Cluck, Go Vegan! - Karen Davis
2013
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UPC Fall-Winter 2013 Poultry Press
- Animal Rights Philosopher Tom Regan, Give a Cluck-Go Vegan, & More! 9 September 2013
- Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of Apology of Animal Rights to Affirmative Activism Clip from Karen Davis's 2013 Vegetarian Summerfest talk - 22 July 2013
- 20,000 Chickens Will NOT Be a Community Asset 27 June 2013
2012
- An Open Letter to the Humane Society of the United States from United Poultry Concerns 31 October 2012
- Taking A Stand for Animals & Against the Evil Fable 2 October 2012
- Animal Liberation, Critical Theory, and Critique of Locavorism! Are you hungry for academic food for thought? Then check these out . . . 13 March 2012
2011
- “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
2008 & earlier
- I Use My Discontent to Make a Difference UPC Fall 2008 Poultry Press
- Oprah Winfrey on Farmed Animals, October 14, 2008 15 October 2008
- Every Living Beating Heart 15 June 2007
- When Murdering Animals Makes Sense 13 February 2004
- Avoiding Burnout
- 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 14 April 2000 (Also in UPC Summer 2000 Poultry Press)
- from "Is Letter Writing Enough?" Spring 1997 Poultry Press
- Staging a Successful Protest Winter 1996/97 Poultry Press
- Undoing A "Done Deal" How We Kept a Chicken Company Out of Simpson County, KY Fall 1996 Poultry Press
Veganism
2023
- Our Big Beautiful Transit Ads in Atlanta & Washington, DC Urge Chicken-Free! 1 June 2023
- “Animal Liberation Now”: Nothing to Crow About 30 May 2023
- (Why) Would the Media Want Plant-Based Meats to Fail? 24 May 2023
- How Can We Promote Respect For Chickens?
An Interview With Karen Davis Of United Poultry Concerns 2 May 2023
2022
- VEGAN VOICES: A Book Review by Dr. Richard H. Schwartz 26 January 2022
2021
- Breaking the Sound of Silence for Good 12 April 2021
- I Stopped Saying “Meat” and Here’s Why 18 February 2021
2020
- MISERY IS NOT A HEALTH FOOD 7 July 2020
2019
- “Stop Mocking Vegans” – My Reaction 9 September 2019
- Vegan Food Products: From “Unicorn Aisle” to Mainstream 17 April 2019
2018
2017
- A Rebuttal to Matt Ball’s Vegan Bash 28 June 2017
- Philosophic Vegetarianism: Acting Affirmatively for Peace
- Remember the Animals with “Animal-Free” UPC Spring 2017 Poultry Press
2015
- Animal Rights Vegan Guilt 30 September 2015
- Chickens & Toxic Waste, and I Was Wrong about Backyard Chickens, Commentaries by Karen Davis and Wayne Creed 31 March 2015
2014
- The Secret Life of Poultry Products 24 July 2014
- Is It Okay for Sanctuaries to Give Hens’ Eggs to Donors? UPC Spring 2014 Poultry Press
2011
- 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)
2004
- UPC Letter In Harper's Magazine , April 2004 Also: Important Thoughts from Deep Vegetarianism 16 March 2004
Turkeys
2022
- The “Thanksgiving” Turkey: Object of Sentimentality, Sarcasm, and Sacrifice 27 November 2022
- Thanksgiving Day in America: Everyday in America 23 November 2022
- Ready to Watch: Who are Turkeys & Why Should We Care? 22 November 2022
2019
- The “Thanksgiving” Turkey: Object of Sentimentality, Sarcasm, and Sacrifice 23 November 2019
- Turkeys: Sympathy, Sensibility, and Sentience 19 November 2019
2018
2016
- Transforming Our Traditions 22 November 2016 (Also in UPC Winter 2016-2017 Poultry Press)
2013
- 46millionturkeys: An Invitation to Create a New Thanksgiving Tradition UPC Fall-Winter 2013 Poultry Press
2011 & earlier
- 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 - UPC Speaks Out for the Mother Turkey and Her Young vs. the Horror of the Hatchery 26 November 2008
- UPC Guest Column, “A Tale of Two Turkeys” 1 December 2006
- Turkeys: much smarter than you think 4 December 2003
“Inadmissible” Comparisons
2023
- False Equivalencies Between Humans and Other Animals 17 March 2023
- MIXING WITHOUT PAIN: Animal Rights and/or Deep Ecology by Karen Davis 21 February 2023
2022
- Our Violence Toward Nature and Animals Permeates Everything 9 November 2022
- I Sent an Email to Filmmaker Michael Moore Asking Why Aren’t Our Fellow Animals on Your Progressive Agenda? 1 November 2022
2021
- Blurring the Boundary Between Humans and Other Animals 20 January 2022
- Moral Injury in Animal Advocates and Nonhuman Animals and the Commonality of Being Reduced to “Lesser Beings” 27 October 2021
- If Plants Have Feelings, How Does This Affect Our Advocacy for Animals? 22 August 2021
- Employing Euphemism to Falsify the Fate of Farmed Animals 21 August 2021
2020
- Living and Learning the Life of a Captive Animal – In a Zoo or in Any Cage 15 August 2020
- Slaughterhouse Workers, Farmed Animals, and Animal Advocates: Can There Be Justice For All? 28 July 2020
- Understanding Euthanasia: When Life and Words Become Worthless 18 June 2020
- What’s Love Got to Do with It? 19 May 2020
- Unending Quarantine: We Are Not the Only Ones 10 May 2020
- Plane Crashes and Slaughterhouses: Who Suffers More? 15 January 2020
2018
- Saturday, February 29: Overlapping Oppressions: Register Now for Our Conscious Eating Conference 6 January 2020
- Last Words on Anthony Bourdain & His “Vegan” Fan Club 24 June 2018
- Regarding Anthony Bourdain: Thank You for Reading and Writing 21 June 2018
- Are Feminists Right to Resist Comparison with the Females of Other Species? 9 June 2018
- AlterNet: #MeToo for Animal Victims of Sexual Assault 5 March 2018
- Animal People and Sexual Misconduct 5 February 2018
2017
- Killing a Chicken to Protest Abortion: What Do You Think? 21 June 2017
- Interspecies Sexual Assault: A Moral Perspective 12 June 2017
- Are Disability Rights and Animal Rights Connected? 6 June 2017
2014
- Animal Personhood: Journal of Evolution and Technology 2014 30 October 2014
2013
- Fascism and the Language of 'Humane' Meat 17 October 2013
2006
- Forced Labor on the Factory Farm 17 February 2006
- The Gestapo of the Human Spirit 17 February 2006
2005 & earlier
- "Animal suffering similar to human slaves'" by UPC President Karen Davis is today’s featured letter in the Chicago Sun-Times 6 September 2005
- A Tale of Two Holocausts 6 January 2005
- Letter: Comparing animal slaughter to Holocaust victims is fair 15 May 2002
- Bestiality: Animal Liberation or Human License? 22 April 2001
- The Difference Between the Dallas Zoo and McDonald's 6 December 2001
- An Open Letter to Vegan Voice Re:Singer's Disparagement of Chickens 26 December 2001
Chickens in Music and Art
2014
- Uncooped, the Book, Now Available from UPC! UPC Fall 2014 Poultry Press
- Uncooped’s Grand Opening: Deconstructing the Domesticated Chicken Inspires Enthusiastic Turnout in Los Angeles! UPC Spring 2014 Poultry Press
2013
- Un-Cooped: Deconstructing the Domesticated Chicken 14 May 2013 (Also in UPC Fall 2013 Poultry Press)
2012
- Video: The Chicken Song - Livin' in a Cage by Finding Violet 26 September 2012 - www.youtube.com
- 15 Minutes of Shame: "The Story of Chickens" - Art and life in an age of doublespeak. 21 March 2012
2009
- Framed! Vegan artists for animal rights: Mary Britton Clouse - for the wonderful Chicken 7 January 2009
2005
Tributes
2023
- In Celebration of Dr. Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns 3 February 2023
2022
- Jon Wynne-Tyson, Pioneer Animal Rights Activist-Author: To UPC President Karen Davis on the Direction of the Animal Rights Movement 10 June 2022
- FEATHERED FRIENDS: A Profile of UPC President Karen Davis 2 April 2022
2021
- The Challenge Facing Animal Rights 25 August 2021
2020
2019
- In Memory of Donald J. Barnes UPC Summer 2019 Poultry Press
2017
- Tom Regan, Pioneer Animal Rights Philosopher Died February 17 But His Work & Influence Endure 19 February 2017 (Also in UPC Summer 2017 Poultry Press)
2015
- Paws for the Cause — United Poultry Concerns 24 November 2015
- NEAVS Honors UPC President Karen Davis UPC Fall 2015 Poultry Press
- Story of United Poultry Concerns Wins Virginia Press Association Awards 23 April 2015
(Also in UPC Summer 2015 Poultry Press)
2014 & earlier
- Va. woman not chicken about making a stand for birds 18 November 2014
- A Tribute to Eldon Wesley Kienholz (1928-1993) UPC Summer 2013 Poultry Press
- Altoona Mirror Profiles UPC Founder Karen Davis 8 October 2012 (Also in UPC Winter 2012 Poultry Press)
- Watch “For the Love of Chickens” on Supreme Master TV 12 November 2007
- United Poultry Concerns Pays Tribute to Gretchen Wyler 22 June 2007
- Tribute to Virgil Butler, Who Died December 15 19 December 2006
- The Place of United Poultry Concerns in the Chronology of Humane Progress (from Moses to Walt Disney)
- Washington Post article "For The Birds" Wins Ark Trust Genesis Award! Winter/Spring 2000 Poultry Press
- For the Birds, The Washington Post, Nov. 14, 1999
- A Loving Tribute to Henry Spira UPC Fall 1998 Poultry Press
- UPC Thanksgiving featured in the Washington Times UPC Winter 1997-1998 Poultry Press