Books
- Instead of Chicken Instead of Turkey: A Poultryless "Poultry" Potpourri : Featuring Homestyle, Ethnic, and Exotic Alternatives to Traditional Poultry and Egg Recipes (Book Publishing Co.), ISBN 1-570-67083-8
- Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry (Book Publishing Co.), ISBN 1-570-67032-3
- More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality (Lantern Books), ISBN 1-930-05188-3
- The Holocaust and the Henmaid’s Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities (Lantern Books), ISBN 1-590-56091-4
Accomplishments
Karen Davis launched a campaign against NPR's "This American Life" for its annual Poultry Slam show, saying that host Ira Glass contributed to the slaughter of chickens everywhere. Eventually, Glass visited Davis' chicken sanctuary and became a vegetarian.
Articles
Her articles have appeared in
The Faculty Voice (University of Maryland),
Journal of English and Germanic Philology,
English Language Notes,
Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Between the Species: A Journal of Ethics, and many other publications. She’s been published in the
New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washingtonian, Chicago Tribune, Columbus Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Harper’s Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Nation, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times, “Dear Abby,”
Egg Industry, Feedstuffs, Satya and has appeared on the
Howard Stern Show.
Karen has essays in
Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations (Duke UP, 1995),
Terrorists or Freedom Fighters: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals (Lantern Books, 2004), and
Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Studies Journal Vol. 2, No. 2 (Center on Animal Liberation Affairs, 2005).