Karen Davis passed away recently after selflessly dedicating an enormous portion of her life towards bettering existence for countless others.
Karen and Rainbow...
Karen Davis was the Founder and President of United Poultry
Concerns, an organization that educates and advocates for respectful
and compassionate attitudes and behavior towards domesticated birds.
Although Karen’s focus was on domestic birds at home with her bird
sanctuary in Virginia and afar wherever birds were being abused and
killed by humans, she has always been a fierce and unremittingly
dedicated advocate for all animals who’ve fallen prey to human
domination, ignorance, and ill will. Karen passed away on November
4, 2023 at her home and sanctuary in Machipongo, Virginia at the age
of 79.
The last time I saw Karen in person we discussed death and how we
were both looking forward to the time when that would come for us.
Although we each lived with purpose and could find moments of joy,
we were daily repulsed by the fact that so many individual beings
are willfully restricted via human choices from experiencing any
degree of joy at all throughout their entire duration of existence.
When I heard that Karen died I was sad that this world was now
without such an amazing and unique human, but I was happy for Karen
to finally get her ending and to know that she was aware that she
lived a long and full life that left behind an incredible legacy of
beautifully articulated, truthful, thought-provoking, consistently
compassionate, and still relevant books, articles, podcasts, videos,
speeches, and more.
I’d like for this article to highlight some of her amazing writing.
She spoke on behalf of the animals with candor, passion, and
brilliance. The quotes I will share below come from the three books
of hers that I have read. All of her books can be purchased on the
United Poultry Concerns website. I’ll be using images I’ve taken
from 2015-2022 to accompany her quotes. I’ve never been a well known
photographer, but I’m grateful that Karen was aware of my work and
that we were able to collaborate on a bunch of projects before her
passing. We shared a lot of perspectives in common and both had a
mutual love for the other person’s work.
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Please read the ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE.
"Why do we praise technology for developing substitutes for crude
practices in other areas of life while balking at its uses to
eliminate slaughterhouses, which technology can do?” ~ Karen Davis.
Photo by
Unparalleled Suffering.