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I first learned about Farm Sanctuary when I watched the movie "The Peaceable Kingdom". I logged onto their web site and came across a page to adopt a farm animal. After looking though all the potential animals to adopt, and being on a tight budget, I chose to adopt a chicken. I wanted to adopt from the New York Shelter so that perhaps, one day, I could visit my adopted friend. Several weeks later a package arrived in the mail. I opened it to find a picture of a beautiful snow white hen named Cha… Continue

From childhood, we have been conditioned and programmed to believe that meat was an important component to eating a healthy diet. In fact, meat is often at the center of a meal. Potatoes and vegetables are just side dishes to accompany the main course. The meat and dairy industries have spent billions upon billions of dollars in advertising campaigns to reinforce this belief. Catchy slogans like "Where's the beef; Finger lickin good; and milk, it does a body good" Have been drilled into our b

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I was fortunate enough to have a very wonderful relationship with an animal that most people only see from a distance. If more people had the opportunity to connect with farm animals, I think they would realize that there really is no difference between different species in their capacity to love us. Some of my fondest childhood memories were those spent at my cousin's dairy farm. He ran an old fashion farm where the cows were allowed to graze in large open fields. I was fond of the baby calv

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