Farm Sanctuary California visit

I took a nice drive a few hours out of San Francisco to visit the famous Farm Sanctuary near Orland, CA. It's the second of two sanctuaries, the first one is in upper New York. As you can see it's a beautiful and peaceful place where many animals have been rescued from horrible factory farm conditions.
It's a great place to go to re-connect with animals and re-charge your soul. (And you may do a little thinking while you're there about whether you should be eating them at all.)

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• farm
• sanctuary
• california
• cows
• pigs
• goats
• sheep
• chickens
• ducks
• turkeys
• rabbits
• factory
• steers
• humane

[SovietHolyMan]

Yes hes a male see the penis in the middle of his stomach , and to be arthritic from too much sex , oh how terrible

[journeyman47]

@SovietHolyMan Heh, heh! Yep,he leads a pretty good life! But they don't let their animals reproduce on the Farm Sanctuary; that would be silly, as the whole point is to rescue abused animals from factory farms, not create more new ones. So, sorry, but no sex!

[livnfree930]

I just found out about the horrors of factory farming and slaughterhouses about 3 years ago. It totally blew my reality out of the water! Becoming a member of peta further ruptured my bubble. Now I buy only organic small farm meat or go to Whole Foods. I eventually want to go vegetarian though because the meat eating thing now bothers me.

[journeyman47]

@livnfree930 I hope you are a vegetarian by now. I cut out the carcasses from my diet three years ago and now the thought of eating them makes me nauseous. I feel great, pay less for food, and don't have the guilt of supporting greedy rich factory farm owners to abuse and torture animals.

Go vegan!

[BiohazardBunney]

@SovietHolyMan No, he was over bred through genetics, he was a product of over breeding. Thats how it happens in factory farms, they have turned these cows into frankenstein monsters to grow fast and die young, to produce the most meat possible as fast as possible. So of course, if they live past only a few years when they would die in the slaughterhouse, all that genetic mutation causes their bodies to break down. But at least he lives a good life at FS :)

[batcountryrabid]

@SovietHolyMan being arthritic from too much sex? Best way to be arthritic imo.....anyone would probably brag about it :D

[ZexionFanGirl]

That's Hugo.

[journeyman47]

Sam, it's called a "farm". Seriously, farms come in two forms: those that grow crops and the ones that have animals; although the factory farms these days that grow and process animals more resemble factories (hence the name) than farms, and are a far cry from Old MacDonald's farm of song. They are virtual concentration camps for other species, complete with overcrowding, horrible food, bad lighting, ridden with disease and filth, etc.

Anyway I hope you go vegan for that reason if no other.

[SamCohenoftheJews2]

'Kay thanks. One other question, just out of curiosity. What is the name of a farm that doesn't make animal-based food (if there is such a thing)?

BTW, great vid, I think I may go there someday!

[journeyman47]

Sam: by the time this world is enlightened enough to not have farm animals any more, we would also have no need for big cat sanctuaries. The cats are all rescued from circuses and crappy roadside zoos. in that better world I dream of the big cats would live free in the wild as they should, and hunt prey as they were born to do.

As for feral cats, I just got some info on vegan cat foods, but I don't know enough about it yet. I would try to get them only fish-based foods for now.