Animal Writings

"If we cannot imagine what it must be like for a bird or a sheep or a cow to be placed in a situation comparable to a human being shoved in a cattle car packed with other terrified people headed toward death; if we cannot imagine how chickens must feel being grabbed by their legs in the middle of the night by men who are cursing at them while pitching them and stuffing them into crates in which they will travel to the next wave of terror at the slaughterhouse, then perhaps we should try to imagine ourselves placed hopelessly in the hands of an overpowering extraterrestrial species, to whom our pleas for mercy may sound like nothing more than bleats and squeals and clucks—mere 'noise' to the master race in whose 'superior' minds we are 'only animals.'"

— Karen Davis, in the Chicago Sun-Times