Writing
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Published Works by DawnWatch Founder Karen Dawn
Karen Dawn has been writing opinion pieces for leading papers, plus magazine articles and also book chapters on animal advocacy issues since 2003. Donations to DawnWatch make that work possible. You can look through those pieces below. And as DawnWatch alerts assume you have some knowledge of animal advocacy issues, you may want to check out Karen Dawn’s acclaimed handbook Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals for some thorough and entertaining background research. The fully updated e-edition came out in 2014.
| Date and Paper | Author | Title |
| December 17, 2020 – Progressive Media Project distributed by Tribune News Service | Karen Dawn | “Why Kaepernick’s New Flavor is Dairy-free” |
| October / November, 2019 – The Progressive Magazine, Pages 47-50 | Karen Dawn | “Beyond the Slaughterhouse: A look at a new industry working to produce real meat without killing animals” |
| September 13, 2018 – The Progressive Magazine | Karen Dawn | “The End of Animal Farming Is Not An Impossible Dream” |
| December 27, 2017 – Los Angeles Times | Karen Dawn | “Dogs Can Get by Just Fine on a Vegetarian Diet” |
| December 6, 2016 – Los Angeles Times | Karen Dawn | “No Good Options for P-45” |
| October 16, 2016 – Los Angeles Times | Peter Singer and Karen Dawn | “Suffering by the numbers: If you give up red meat but continue eating fish and chicken you may end up increasing animal cruelty.” |
| July 2016 – The Progressive Magazine | Karen Dawn | Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle |
| June 5, 2016 – Los Angeles Times | Peter Singer and Karen Dawn | “Why Do We Keep Gorillas Behind Bars?” |
| April 25, 2016 – The Huffington Post | Karen Dawn | Prince and His Animal Rights Legacy |
| Dec 2015 – The Progressive Magazine | Karen Dawn | Making Animal Protection a Political Issue |
| Feb 9, 2015 – The Huffington Post | Karen Dawn | McConaughey Missteps: Is Celebrity Shaming Good Animal Rights Activism? |
| Jan 29, 2015 – The Huffington Post | Karen Dawn | Why I Love the Go Daddy Puppy Commercial |
| Nov 21, 2014 – Huffington Post | Karen Dawn | Thanksgiving Turkey Rescue: Spa Day and Vegan Feast for Beautiful Birds (with video) |
| August 7, 2014 – Huffington Post | Karen Dawn | Baby-Monkey Abuse Funded by Your Tax Dollars |
| June 4, 2014 – The Dodo | Karen Dawn | Seventeen Years of Love with my Pit Bull, Paula |
| May 2014 – Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals (Harper Collins) | Karen Dawn | Revised and Updated e-edition |
| March 17, 2014 – Huffington Post | Karen Dawn | How Animal Welfare Advances Veganism and Animal Rights |
| Jan 11, 2014 – Huffington Post | Karen Dawn | They Shoot Giraffes Don’t They? Why Marius’s Death Is No Surprise |
| Jan 24, 2014 – Huffington Post | Karen Dawn | Is Japan’s Dolphin Slaughter Really for Food? |
| Nov 27, 2013 – Huffington Post | Karen Dawn | Turkeys Get Spa Treatment and Love on Thanksgiving (with VIDEO) |
| Nov 23, 2011 – Santa Monica Daily Press |
Karen Dawn | Turkeys have a Seat at the Table |
| June 2010 – J. M. Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature – edited by Anton Leist and Peter Singer | Chapter by Peter Singer and Karen Dawn | Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals |
| April 2008 – Harper Collins | Karen Dawn | Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals (Harper Collins) |
| December 4, 2007 — Los Angeles Times | Karen Dawn | The choice isn’t seals or people |
| November 23, 2006 — Washington Post Radio | Karen Dawn | Tale of a Turkey who changed Thanksgiving |
| September 15, 2005 — New York Newsday | Karen Dawn | “Shameful policy…” (caused pet and people’s death after Hurricane Katrina). |
| September 10, 2005 – Washington Post | Karen Dawn | “Best Friends Need Shelter, Too” (On disaster relief no-pets policies) |
| August 13, 2005 – LOS ANGELES TIMES | Karen Dawn | Got milk? You’ve got problems |
| September 5, 2004 – UK GUARDIAN | Karen Dawn | “Gandhi’s way won’t do” – on militant tactics |
| June 2004 – Terrorists or Freedom Fighters: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals – edited by Steven Best and Anthony Nocella. | Chapter by Karen Dawn | “From the Front Lines to the Front Page: An Analysis of ALF Media Coverage” |
| July 25, 2004 – LOS ANGELES TIMES | Karen Dawn & Peter Singer | “Echoes of Abu Ghraib in Chicken Slaughterhouse“ |
| February 8, 2004 – NY NEWSDAY | Karen Dawn & Peter Singer |
On Chicken flu slaughter |
| Dec 1, 2003- LOS ANGELES TIMES | Karen Dawn & Peter Singer |
“Back at the Ranch: A Horror Story” — On AVMA & chicken woodchipper kill. |
| August 2003- In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave – edited by Peter Singer | Chapter by Karen Dawn | Moving the Media |
| June 8, 2003 — LOS ANGELES TIMES | Karen Dawn & Peter Singer |
“There Should be no Room For Cruelty to Livestock” — on state bill to ban veal and sow crates |