[New post] The Cow Sanctuary — a place of freedom, voice for the voiceless, #govegan
Janet Mason posted: " I knew that I went to The Cow Sanctuary in Bridgeton NJ that I was going to a special place. But I had no idea how liberated I would feel. Maybe it's the Buddhist chanting, but I felt an immense sense of freedom on this land where animals are"
I knew that I went to The Cow Sanctuary in Bridgeton NJ that I was going to a special place. But I had no idea how liberated I would feel. Maybe it's the Buddhist chanting, but I felt an immense sense of freedom on this land where animals are sent to live where they are well cared for and where they can live out their natural lives.
Each animal has a story -- our cow friend Sacred came from a teaching dairy farm (and had contact with the high school students) so she was very social with human animals and other animals. One of the pigs came from a zoo. Another dairy cow came from a factory farm and she abhors any contact with humans.
All of the animals would have been slaughtered if they were not rescued and sent to live at the sanctuary.
As Helga, who owns and operates The Cow Sanctuary, pointed out -- every dairy cow is sent to be slaughtered after the farm is done milking her. (The cows are forcibly impregnated so that they will produce milk.) She emphasized that there is no such thing as an "Ethical" dairy.
Helga began her journey to creating her sanctuary as a dairy famer. When she found out that the dairy cows are routinely slaughtered after they are done being milked (usually after about three years) she could no longer be part of the industry.
You can visit her site and read more about her story here.
Here are some videos and photos that I took on our day at The Cow Sanctuary.
Here are some more photographs of the animals that I met at The Cow Sanctuary:
Helga and Barbara
Before I met Helga I included her as a character in my novel Cinnamon. My partner Barbara had been to The Cow Sanctuary and told me about meeting Helga.
Click here to read the chapter where Helga is mentioned.
Here are a few more videos of The Cow Sanctuary.
To learn more about my most recently published novel — The Unicorn, The Mystery, click here:
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