Animal Rights Blog

The Giant Pumpkin

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:06:47 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary Every day, we receive hundreds of pounds of day-old produce donated by two grocery stores. Yesterday, an employee at one notified us that a 60lb pumpkin had failed to sell and did we want it? Um, do pigs love food? Yes! Abby, sanctuary supervisor and Louie, animal caregiver, took a picture with [...]

Photo prints: Who should be immortalized?

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:05:07 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary The animals are tired of only receiving online attention, now they want to be permanently etched in photo paper! We want to select 3-4 of our photos to print and sell to you fine folks. We think they’d make perfect holidays gifts for the animal lover in your life. But it’s [...]

Divine Turkey Talk

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:27:04 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary Talking with turkeys is enchanting and divine. They do not use consonants and vowels but trills and whistles, clicks and melodic tweets. When they have an especially poignant point to make, their vocalization is like a goose, a honking screech reverbrating throughout the bird enclosure. At Animal Place, there are seven turkeys, [...]

Gadhimai Mela: Nepalese religious slaughter

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:37:45 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary Every five years, a religious festival takes place in the Bara district of south-west Nepal in which hundreds of thousands of fully-conscious animals are hacked to pieces by drunken men. It is partially funded by the government of Nepal - the fair brings in tourists and money. The festival is done [...]

Controversy over new global warming report

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:36:25 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary A new Worldwatch report claims 50% of all global emissions of greenhouse gases can be attributed to livestock production. This article attempts to refute the 2006 report Livestock’s Long Shadow which blamed livestock production for 18% of all anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gases. What is surprising about Worldwatch’s report is its suggestion: Stop [...]

Free study guide and film for educators

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:08:26 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary Study guide and film FREE to teachers! Animal Place is proud to announce the creation of a curriculum unit on farmed animals for secondary teachers! The 50-page study guide accompanies our film, The Emotional World of Farm Animals, which has been aired nationally on PBS. Geared for all ages, this study [...]

On Going Vegan

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:07:18 +0000

Submitted by Animal Person First I have to say that my husband and I were in our courtyard last night, with wine, vegan pizza with shiitakes, portobellos and chanterelles (still working through that five-pound bag of Daiya cheese), and Diana Krall playing. It was about 8:30 and we had seen 100+ kids in search of treats. Though [...]

Cooperatives Working Together to Kill Cows

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:05:27 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary I know I’ve been blogging a lot about the dairy industry these past few days. I promise I’ll be blogging about other farmed animal and Animal Place related issues soon, but this article was brought to my attention. I had to post about it, it’s just so creepy and Halloween is [...]

Milking it

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:17:06 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary Sadie is special, at least to me. She is the face of the dairy industry, those beautiful cows who are bred and milked, bred and milked in a cycle of loss and separation. In her life, she gave birth to four calves, their fates intertwined with her own. Each calf [...]

Kinder side of veal?

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:15:43 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary Humanely raised veal? Veal cast in a kinder light? Today’s Washington Post offers its readers a look into a kinder, gentler, more humane veal. Wait a second, back up. Look at that language, how it muddies up the discussion right off the bat. Veal is not raised. There is no field of veal [...]

Windy days, unimpressed animals, learn to save

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:17:13 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary In a move only described as Epic Fail, I managed to delete the incredibly amazing, provocative, insightful, WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE post I was writing. I cried a little. Now you will have to settle for the following. Here is Willy. He is a goat, as evidenced by his horns, beard and caprine-like [...]

On “EATING ANIMALS” by Jonathan Safran Foer

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:51:25 +0000

Submitted by Animal Person I immensely enjoyed “EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED” (even on the big screen) and eagerly anticipated “EATING ANIMALS” (Little, Brown 2009) by Jonathan Safran Foer. His writing is beautiful, though I do have to admit that I haven’t seen “shit” and its variations so frequently in one printed piece in quite a while. Ever, [...]

Taylor the chicken, mourning her friends

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:35:35 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary Meet Taylor, the hen, my friend and confidante (on all things chicken, mainly). She is a singer, a crooner, a speaker on all subjects large and small. Who stole her nest box. Who is hanging out with Diablo the rooster when they were last seen with Newman. Who likes Ferdinand, even [...]

Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home Coming to Orlando

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:34:01 +0000

Submitted by Animal Person From the makers of Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home is finally here! After a successful world premiere screening at the Moondance Film Festival in Boulder CO, where our film won the “Spirit of Moondance” Best Feature Documentary award, we are going to the Orlando Film Festival in Orlando, [...]

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:49:15 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary Try to imagine any end other than taste for which it would be justifiable to do what we do to farmed animals. - Jonathan Safran Foer, New York Times I ended up at Foer’s New York Times article by way of this editorial which painted Foer’s piece as an intensely anti-agricultural essay. Foer’s [...]

On Michigan’s animal welfare reforms

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:46:58 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm signed into law a bill that provides more room to protected species. In Michigan’s case, defined species include pregnant sows, calves used for veal, hens producing eggs, turkeys, ducks, geese or guinea fowl. Producers have three years to provide enough room for calves in the veal industry [...]

On Changes in What Americans Are Attending To

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:45:51 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary I’ve been out of every loop I used to be in because my work outside of veganism and animal rights came a-calling in a most critical way. As a result, for the first time in my life I’ve been living like many working people do: I get up early and rush around [...]

NFL Power Brokers Say No to Rush Limbaugh

swivl — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:39:20 +0000

Rush Limbaugh wants to purchase the St. Louis Rams Football team and the National Football League Players Union, the NFL Commissioner, and several NFL power brokers have turned thumbs down. This is the same NFL Commissioner, NFL owners, and powerbrokers who had no problem with Michael Vick, a convicted dog killer and torturer, playing for [...]

New York Times, the ACLU, and the NRA Form Unholy Alliance – Turn Their Back on Animal Cruelty

swivl — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:31:39 +0000

Thank goodness that the Obama Administration has the common sense to support the ban on videos that display animal cruelty. At issue is US v. Stevens – a case recently heard by the US Supreme Court – to determine if the law passed by the Congress in 1999 banning the creation, sale, or possession of [...]

Art for the Animals

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:30:53 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary We mentioned at the end of September that Sheila Tajima had created beautiful paintings to help the animals at the sanctuary. She has done a few more paintings that we wanted to share with you. The portrait of Nate sold for $62! Little Lenny Lenny’s mother was rescued from a slaughterhouse while pregnant. He [...]

Five-Year Old Shoots 35-Year Old in Head

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:29:34 +0000

Submitted by Animal Person Check this out . . . http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=011008&streamingFormat=FLASH& referralObject=10363783&referralPlaylistId=playlist It saddens me, and I find it extremely disturbing, that a five-year old child is giddy, and his parents (and the journalists on this program) are so pleased that he killed a 35-40-year old alligator. Let’s deconstruct a few details: The young boy shot the alligator, who had been [...]

Animal Pharm - Antibiotic Farming In America

Hilltop — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:06:14 +0000

An estimated 70% of the antibiotics and other microbial drugs used in the United States are fed to farm animals for non-therapeutic purposes, including (i) growth promotion; and (ii) compensation for crowded, unsanitary, and stressful farming and transportation conditions. Unlike human use of antibiotics, these non-therapeutic uses in animals typically do not require a prescription. [...]

On being afraid for Sadie

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:07:02 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary We’ve all met them. They have woven their story into our own. Their light becomes a beacon of our own, a shining we want to be near. Sometimes they reciprocate, attracted to our own flicker. Sometimes they tolerate us, bumping against our circle but not interested in entering. I’ve heard some [...]

Rescued roosters need your help

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:05:34 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary and Eastern Shore Sanctuary are both desperately seeking homes for roosters rescued in two separate incidents. New York New York City has hundreds of live-markets where people can purchase live animals for slaughter. Many of these markets are illegal. Animals are housed in overcrowded cages, abusively treated and cruelly [...]

The secret lives of rabbits

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:04:28 +0000

Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary I know this is egregiously anthropomorphic and probably not in a good way but I would not help myself. The rabbits are perhaps the most mysterious species at the sanctuary. They are curious but not overly so; they do not want to be picked up or cuddled but prefer interaction on [...]