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| Formation | 1986 |
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| Founders | Gene Baur and Lorri Houston |
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| Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
| Purpose | Animal protection |
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| Website | www |
Farm Sanctuary is an American animal protection organization, founded in 1986 as an advocate for farmed animals. It was America's first shelter for farmed animals.[3] It promotes laws and policies that support animal welfare, animal protection, and veganism through rescue, education, and advocacy. Farm Sanctuary houses over 800 cows, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, pigs, sheep, and goats at a 300+ acre animal sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York, and more than 100 animals at its location in Acton, California, near Los Angeles.[4]
The original version of the documentary film Peaceable Kingdom featured Farm Sanctuary and people that work or visit there. The most recent version of the film no longer includes Farm Sanctuary footage. The documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine (2014) has a scene in which Jo-Anne McArthur visits the farm in order to escape the stresses of her work photographing factory farms.
- ^ "New York Shelter". Farm Sanctuary. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- ^ "Southern California Shelter". Farm Sanctuary. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- ^ "Hall Of Fame". Animal Rights National Conference. Archived from the original on February 6, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
- ^ Sweet, Joni (September 14, 2011). "Farm Sanctuary Grows". VegNews. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012.