Baur Gene - Living the farm sanctuary life: the ultimate guide to eating mindfully, living longer, and feeling better everyday

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Close your eyes and imagine this: You step out of your daily life and into a favorite storybook. Youre back with The Farmer in the Dell, standing on a beautiful green pasture. All around you roam the wonderful farm animals youve loved since you were a child: the sheep, the cows, the chickens, and more, all living in harmony. You feel a sense of tranquility around you and even inside you.

Wherever you look, you see complete contentment. Nestled in a lovely green valley surrounded by rolling hills, sparkling lakes, and preserved forests are homey red barns that remind you of the one in Charlottes Web. Cheerful animals wander in and out, jumping and skipping through open doors. Beyond the barns, you see more pastures abounding with more pigs, chickens, goats, turkeys, and cows, and in the background you hear a symphony of happy moos, clucks, grunts, and squawks.

You see and feel... peace. Here, chewing mouths and twitching ears and the sounds of play are the only distractions around. All seems to be right with the world from sunrise, when the roosters crow as the buttery sun warms up the dewy green grass, till sunset, when the animals start to become drowsy after a tough day of eating and ruminating and playing and sleeping. You wonder, is this real? Or is this a fairy tale?

Now open your eyes.

This is a real place, in the real world.

This is Farm Sanctuary, the worlds premier refuge for farm animals. At our farms in New York and California, we provide comfortable homes for approximately 1,000 pigs, cows, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, sheep, and goats.

This is a place that gives back something most of us have lost, and returns people to a simpler, happier time and place where we lived more in harmony with nature, other species, and our core values.

We also do a great deal of serious educational work, such as keeping the public informed about the plight of factory-farmed animals. We host 100-plus events and appearances a year, many featuring celebrities such as Martha Stewart, Ellen DeGeneres, Alec Baldwin, Mary Tyler Moore, Emily Deschanel, Moby, Chevy Chase, Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Nealon, Steve-O, John Corbett, Allison Janney, Jesse Eisenberg, Jon Hamm, and others. And we lobby vigorously for laws and policies that support animal welfare.

Each year we also host thousands of guests from all over the country who come to enjoy these extraordinary farms where people and animals interact as friends, companions, and playmates. None of these creatures is ever eaten or used to produce milk or eggs; they live fully and freely for the rest of their existence. Thats why our visitors call Farm Sanctuary the Happiest Place on Earth.

This book is designed to help you share in some of that happiness.

Whats it like to visit Farm Sanctuary?

Because Farm Sanctuary offers a view of the world so different from what we see in most of our everyday lives, visitors here seldom leave without having had some kind of transformative experience.

People are inspired by a variety of exchanges. Some are moved by touch, by feeling the wool on a sheeps backwhich, by the way, is nothing like touching a sweater, but involves sinking your hands into a deep, soft-textured coat growing on a warm, living creature. And when a cow rambles over to you and asks with her big brown eyes to be petted, its like no other experience in the world. Many of these gentle giants, who can weigh up to 3,000 pounds, are like huge puppies! The pigs, earthy animals who root around in the soil and roll in the mud, also love to be petted. Pigs enjoy belly rubs so much that theyll roll over and let you scratch their tummies, grunting happily in appreciation.

Other visitors are moved by sights, like our goats, the farms entertainers. Nearly everyone delights in discovering how playful and interactive they aremuch like their dogs back home. The goats jump with joy, sometimes competing to see which of them can spring the highest.