DawnWatch: NY Times on Farm Sanctuary rescue of lamb 7/7/07
July 8th, 2007 10:33 pm by Kelly Garbato———- Forwarded message ———-
From: DawnWatch – news [at] dawnwatch.com
Date: Jul 7, 2007 8:02 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: NY Times on Farm Sanctuary rescue of lamb 7/7/07
The Saturday, July 7, New York Times has a delightiful story about Farm Sanctuary. The article is by Kim Severson, headed, “Rounded Up in the City, Then Coddled in Style.” (Pg B5)
Severson describes Farm Sanctuary as “175 acres of vegan nirvana” nestled among vineyards and vegetable stands in the Finger Lakes region.
We read: “The newest New Yorker to arrive is Lucky Lady, a lamb who was found tearing through the Bronx on June 13. Seeing her agricultural tags, the people who saved Lucky Lady concluded that she had escaped from a live animal market where the culinary and cultural value of certain kinds of meat comes from the timeliness and manner of slaughter.”
Lucky Lady is temporarily in isolation under veterinary care. Soon “she will join 750 other animals that at one time or another were destined to become dinner. That includes dozens of chickens that survived Hurricane Katrina, a couple of ducks whose livers were going to become pate de foie gras and 40 pigs, some of which were headed for the slaughterhouse when they were abandoned by a truck driver near Washington.”
We also read about the cow named Queenie:
“In 2000, Queenie broke out of a slaughterhouse in Queens and ran free for 20 blocks until the police found her in a playground and shot her with a tranquilizer gun.
“She was just a calf then. Today, she has almost tripled in size and spends her days with 55 other cows that do not seem to mind when visitors give them a good scratch between the eyes.”
The whole article is on line at www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/nyregion/07farm.html.
You can learn more about Farm Sanctuary at www.FarmSanctuary.org
An enthusiastic reader response to animal friendly stories encourages more of them, so please write appreciative letters to the editor. This story also presents the perfect opportunity for comments about the horrors of factory farming and/or singing the praises of vegetarian diets. Those who have had the pleasure of visiting Farm Sanctuary or one of the other wonderful farm animal sanctuaries might be particularly moved to write about their visits.
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Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn
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July 15th, 2007 at 9:58 am
A couple weeks ago I visited the farm sanctuary in New York and i was amazed. I am only 15 years old and it was a very education experience for me. I loved being able to interact with the animals. After i learned how mistreated the animals were i decided to change my dieting. I decided to become a vegitarian. Many people say that one person cant make a difference but i believe i can make a difference. At first my friernds made a joke of me turning to a vegitarian but after a while the realized that I was serious. I have educated many pother people and i hope to maske more of a difference.