About me: We're moving! That's right, Animal Place is moving from our 60-acre sanctuary to a gorgeous, 600-acre sanctuary! We're very excited about this move. Want to help? Visit our website.
Animal Place is a 60-acre sanctuary for farmed animals located in northern California. There are over 300 animals at the shelter, including cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, turkeys and rabbits. We also serve as a temporary "foster" home for dogs from Mexico and local Californian shelters.
We promote veganism and vegetarianism and offer sanctuary tours, cooking classes and workshops throughout the year.
Farmed animals are the most exploited and least protected group of animals in the world. 27 million are killed in the United States alone each day, nearly 19,000 per minute – equating to a tragic total of 10 billion animals per year.
Over the past 50 years, animal agriculture has evolved from small, family farms to large corporate factory farming systems. Modern agribusiness corporations are built upon the cutthroat attitude of increasing profit margins at all costs – which has had devastating consequences for the animals in their care.
Farmed animals lead a life of misery from the moment they are born to when they are slaughtered. Every day, everywhere across the globe, millions of these animals are kept in confinement, mutilated as part of routine husbandry practices, mishandled, and deprived of basic necessities.
Isn't it time we evolve as a society and refuse to condone such needless suffering?
While thousands of animal shelters in the United States are designed for cats and dogs, only a small handful of such facilities is in place for farmed animals.
Animal Place provides this much needed shelter and sanctuary for over 300 chickens, pigs, goats, sheep, turkeys, rabbits, and cattle. We allow them to live their lives out in peace and to serve as ambassadors for their species. When visitors meet Howie the steer or Patti the pig firsthand they discover the vitality, depth, and individuality of these animals that are typically only seen as food.
Who I'd like to meet: People who show and promote compassion for ALL species.
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