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Animal Place Sanctuary
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Recent Posts
Meet Elsa, the newest bovine resident!
Several months ago, we received a call from a local school that planned on sending their 15-yr-old Jersey cow to slaughter. The cow had been used as a teaching tool for her entire life, giving birth to nine calves and spending her life at this one fa...
The Giant Pumpkin
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 a...
Photo prints: Who should be immortalized?
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...
Divine Turkey Talk
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 reverb...
Gadhimai Mela: Nepalese religious slaughter
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 b...
Controversy over new global warming report
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 ant...

