A fierce campaigner, Ms. Davis expanded the reach of the animal rights movement by advocating for chickens, turkeys and other farmyard fowl. By Trip Gabriel Karen Davis, an animal-rights activist ...

Around this time every year, Karen Davis could often be found in Washington, D.C., handing out leaflets proclaiming, “Turkeys Are Too Neat to Eat.” When she began campaigning for the rights of ...

Karen Davis, an animal-rights activist who led campaigns to recognize the dignity of chickens, turkeys and other farmyard fowl — and whose fervor was such that she compared the industrial ...