Karen Davis (activist)

Karen Davis is an American animal rights advocate, and president of United Poultry Concerns, a nonprofit organization founded in 1990 to address the treatment of domestic fowl including chickens, turkeys, and ducks in factory farming. Davis also maintains a sanctuary.

Davis was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania her parents were Amos and Mary Elizabeth Davis. Amos was the Blair County District attorney from 1966 to 1975. Davis graduated from Hollidaysburg Area High School in 1962. She studied for her undergraduate degree at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. Davis obtained her PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park. She also taught English at the University of Maryland while she started United Poultry Concerns. The words poultry and poetry can be aurally confused. Davis married Dr. George Allan Cate . She has three brothers Tim Davis of Palo Alto, California, Amos Davis of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Andrew Davis of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.

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