Direct Action Everywhere cases reach opposite outcomes 24 hours apart SANTA ROSA, California––Sonoma County, California, is still farm country, a Santa Rosa jury found in effect on October 29, 2025, convicting chicken rescuer Zoe Rosenberg, 23, on three misdemeanor counts of trespassing and tampering with a vehicle, and one felony count of conspiracy. Sonoma County […]
Chickens, rats, & my battle with leptospirosis, by Beth Clifton
Zoonotic disease can hit you anywhere GREENBANK, Washington––Sometimes ANIMALS 24-7 finds article topics right in our own backyard. Like World Zoonoses Day, commemorated annually on July 6. Today is the 140th anniversary of the first administration of the human post-exposure rabies vaccine by Louis Pasteur on July 6, 1885. “Zoonoses is the collective term for […]
Postal error kills up to 15,000 newly hatched chicks, leaves SPCA with 2,000+
Delaware disaster draws attention yet again to inhumanity of mailing live birds CAMDEN, Delaware–“More than two thousand” chicks, survivors of as many as 17,000 abandoned for four days at a U.S. Postal Service distribution center circa April 29, 2025, remain at the First State Animal Center & SPCA, shelter director John Parana told media. More […]
More Than a Meal: Thanksgiving, turkeys, tradition & Karen Davis
First condemned, then pardoned, without a statement of rights WASHINGTON D.C.––Perhaps nothing could underscore the role of turkeys as Thanksgiving sacrificial victims than the annual ritual at which U.S. President Joe Biden on November 21, 2022 “pardoned” the 46-pound and 47-pound turkeys Chocolate and Chip on the South Lawn of the White House. For what […]
The “Thanksgiving” turkey: object of sentimentality, sarcasm, & sacrifice
Each year a litany of sarcasm accompanies the sentimentality of Thanksgiving by Karen Davis, Ph.D., president, United Poultry Concerns (See also Karen Davis, Ph.D., United Poultry Concerns founder, dead at 79.) “Nothing so unites us as gathering with one mind to murder someone we hate, unless it is coming together to share in a meal.” […]
“Chicken Run” revisited: claymation classic as good now as in 2000
Chicken Run Animated feature film co-directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park, starring the voices of Mel Gibson, Julia Sawahla, and Miranda Richardson. Produced by Aardman Studios, distributed by Dreamworks, 2000. 80 minutes. Sequel, Dawn of the Nugget, coming to Netflix on December 15, 2023. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton An appreciation of the late […]
“Birds Aren’t Real” ––if only those in poultry barns were not
The good news is, vegan food technology means the birds on the menu need not be real MEMPHIS, Tennessee––The avian advocacy world is still aflutter, a week after CBS News 60 Minutes reporter Sharyn Alfonsi extensively exposed the “Birds Aren’t Real” hoax conspiracy theory orchestrated from Memphis by 24-year-old University of Arkansas dropout and former […]
Forever Young: Thoreau, Einstein, Bronte, Thurman, Goodall, & Carson
Forever Young: How Six Great Individuals Have Drawn upon the Powers of Childhood and How We Can Follow Their Lead by William Crain, cofounder of Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary Turning Stone Press Reviewed by Karen Davis, PhD, president, United Poultry Concerns Our society’s children seldom experience nature anymore. They move between poles of a cold-blooded […]
The dilemma of backyard chicken-keeping
by Karen Davis, Ph.D., president, United Poultry Concerns “Would you be pleased if chickens came to be viewed more and more as animals to be kept as pets? Is the routine objection of neighbors to roosters insuperable?” This inquiry was prompted by a January 28, 2022 Boston Globe article about a family’s lawsuit to keep […]
Blurring the boundary between humans and other animals
by Karen Davis, Ph.D. Founder & president, United Poultry Concerns Heinrich Himmler, who founded the quasi-military police unit known as the SS [Schutzstaffel]and administered the Nazi death camps, was initially a chicken farmer. According to Charles Patterson in his book Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, Himmler’s “agricultural studies and experience breeding […]