The dangerous Save Our Bacon Act was left out of the Senate’s Farm Bill draft, a major win for animals. But Big Pork and its allies are working to force it back in. This industry-backed provision would wipe out state laws that protect farmed animals from extreme confinement, including California’s Proposition 12 and Massachusetts’ Question […]
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Our President and Co-Founder, Kim Sturla, sat down with the Top Dog Podcast to talk about the story behind one of the country’s longest-running farm animal sanctuaries. Kim traces her path back to Zelda, a young pig found as a stray decades ago. Caring for her led to a realization that reshaped everything: “There was
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Summer is winding down, and school is almost back in session. This year, the biggest change isn’t in the classroom; it’s in the cafeteria. A new federal law now gives schools more flexibility to serve nutritionally equivalent plant-based milks and lets parents request a non-dairy option for their kids. With roughly 30 million students in
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Your voice is making a difference. Thanks to the power of people like you, the Farm Bill draft released by Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman does not include the dangerous Save Our Bacon Act. This is a major victory for animals. But the fight is far from over. The Save Our Bacon Act would threaten
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Most FFA and 4-H students never question what happens after auction day. In traditional agriculture programs like FFA and 4-H, kids spend months raising an animal, feeding them, grooming them, often naming them, before selling them at a livestock auction, where the highest bidder typically sends them to slaughter. Here at Animal Place, we’ve welcomed
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The Nevada County Fair returns August 12–16, and Mutton Bustin’ is back on the schedule. This is just one of several ways animals are used at fairs. We want to talk about what this event asks of the sheep that are forced to participate. What Mutton Busting Actually Is Here’s how it works. A sheep
Behind the funnel cakes and Ferris wheels, animals are paying the price for a “family tradition.” The 2026 California State Fair opened July 17 at Cal Expo in Sacramento, and for 17 days, more than half a million visitors will stream through the gates for concerts, carnival rides, and deep-fried everything. They’ll also find livestock
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This year, Animal Place is proud to be working with LEAP (Leaders for Ethics, Animals and The Planet) to host our first-ever middle-school summer camp at the end of July. We recently sat down with Danielle Hanosh, co-founder and executive director of LEAP, to learn more about their important programs and initiatives. What is LEAP?
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Animal Place is participating in LEAP! Animal Place’s Kids’ Summer Camp for incoming 6th-8th graders will run from July 27-31. Curriculum and interactive workshops are hosted every day from 10:00 am-3:00 pm, starting Monday, July 27th. Students will have the opportunity to work hands-on with farmed animals and learn how to provide them with
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Every Mother’s Day, we celebrate the depth of a mother’s love. We send flowers. We make dinner reservations. We pause to honor the women who raised us. But the holiday we observe today was never meant to be about dinners or flowers. And the mothers we forget to honor outnumber us by billions. The Radical
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