" This is the world that we have made for chickens to live in. Some people feel threatened by the prospect that in recognizing and upholding the dignity of other living beings, we betray our own dignity as a species. It should rather be asked how the human species gains dignity by creating worlds such as this for anyone to live in. Can one regard a fellow creature as property, an investment, a piece of meat, an "it," without degenerating into cruelty and dishonesty toward that creature? Human slavery was brutal. Does anyone really believe that nonhuman animal slavery operates on a higher plane? "

― Karen Davis , Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry