Eastern Shore Sanctuary Blog

Vermont is the largest dairy producing state in New England, and fifteenth in the nation. This makes it a perfect location for the Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center’s newest venture. Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, our doors will soon open to cows rescued from the dairy industry.
For over ten years, the [...]

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We can be a place for these birds! We have the land, we have the people-power, and we have the resources to feed and otherwise care for many more pigeons than we are at present.

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This video showed up on one of the AR news lists and I think it’s phenomenal. Send it to everyone who believes that purchasing free-range animal products is ethical; if anything will make them see otherwise, this will.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMF5ZW2QvYg

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In the wake of the BP oil spill comes some of the most shocking footage yet of what goes on inside Department of Agriculture-approved dairy farms, thanks to Mercy for Animals and the undercover footage they took at Conklin Farm in Ohio. I say “shocking” because most of us haven’t seen these things with our [...]

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Awhile back, I posted a blog entry about the Last Remaining Cockfighter (as I had taken to calling him) — about how we took him to what we thought would be a good home, only to have him turned away heartlessly because the woman found another rooster to complement her landscaping (you can see I’m [...]

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No duh, right? Well, yes, but you know, we humans are crafty when we want what we want and don’t want to change what we want. That’s why slippery slopes are best avoided even by the most scrupulous among us.
What on earth am I talking about? Last Saturday, we “bought” 40 hens from a CSA [...]

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Check out this link ASAP.
http://animals.change.org/petitions/view/horse_flesh_for_dinnerrare_medium_well-done
Missouri is on the verge of approving a horse slaughter facility — the first one in the US since the last one was shut down in 2007. It’s not the fact of where, of course, but it IS true that in such cases, letters from constituents CAN make a difference!
So, again, [...]

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At the Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center, we are quite familiar
with the phenomenon Natalie Angier exemplifies so perfectly in her essay
“Sorry, Vegans: Brussels Sprouts Like to Live, Too.” We call it psychic
self-defense.
And so, while I will refute Angier’s primary argument against veganism
later in this response, I believe it is instructive to first think about
the [...]

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This coming Tuesday, the fabulous Toronto-based radio show “Animal Voices” will interview Eastern Shore Sanctuary worker Miriam Jones about rehabilitating cockfighting roosters.
The show will air between 11 AM and NOON, eastern time, on Tuesday, November 10, 2009.
If none of your local radio stations will air the show, you can check it out online, either [...]

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Two weeks and one day into the rehabilitation process, two of the new roosters are FREE! Free of the “training” cages they live in during the day out in the yards while they get used to being around other birds whom they are not forced to fight. Free of the crates in which they sleep [...]

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