Karen Davis: This Conversation Will Change How You See Chickens
Species Unite
elizabeth novogratz
5.0 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
"Chickens have full color spectrum vision. That means they see the entire spectrum of colors from the infrared to the ultraviolet. The reason that roosters crow when for humans it is still dark outside is because they see the sunrise before we do, because they see infrared light. So, they're up and about in what for them is daylight, when for us it is dark out." – Karen Davis
Karen Davis is the president and founder of United Poultry Concerns. They're an organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domesticated birds. They also have a sanctuary for chickens in Virginia.
Karen and I did this interview as a live episode in June. I wanted to talk to Karen about chickens for a couple of reasons, one because they're the most abused land animal on the planet; but also because I wanted to know more about them.
Before this conversation I knew very little about chickens. And Karen knows everything there is to know them. She has been advocating for them, studying them, saving them, and writing about them for decades. Her most recent book is called For the Birds: From Exploitation to Liberation.
Every year, a staggering 70 billion chickens are raised and slaughtered for meat, and around 300 million more are kept for egg production. And every single one of them is an intelligent, sentient individual.
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| 0:00.0 | Species, |
| 0:08.0 | species. |
| 0:10.0 | Unite, |
| 0:11.0 | Chickens have four. United. |
| 0:17.0 | Chickens have full color spectrum vision. That means they see the entire spectrum of colors |
| 0:20.0 | from the infrared to the ultraviolet. |
| 0:23.0 | The reason that roosters crow, when for humans, it's still dark outside |
| 0:28.0 | is because they see the sunrise before we do, because they see infrared light. So they're up and about in what for |
| 0:37.0 | them is daylight when for us it is dark out. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is Species Unite. |
| 0:53.0 | We have a favor to ask if you like today's episode and you have a spare minute. |
| 0:58.3 | Could you please rate and review Species Unite on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to Podcasts. It really helps people to find |
| 1:06.8 | the show. This conversation is with Karen Davis. |
| 1:15.0 | Karen is with Karen Davis. |
| 1:18.0 | Karen is the president and founder of United Poultry Concerns. |
| 1:22.0 | They're an organization that promotes the |
| 1:23.8 | compassionate and respectful treatment of domesticated birds and they also have |
| 1:28.6 | a sanctuary for chickens in Virginia. Karen and I did this interview as a live episode in June because, well, chickens are the most |
| 1:38.1 | abused land animal on the planet and because I wanted to know more about them. |
| 1:43.0 | Every year a staggering 70 billion chickens are raised and slotted for meat, |
| 1:48.0 | and around 300 million more are kept for egg production. |
| 1:51.0 | Before this interview, like I said, I didn know much about them so I wanted to talk to |
| 1:55.2 | Karen because she knows almost all there is to know about chickens. She's written numerous books about them. |
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