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A Tale of two Babies
LA Pet Rescue Examiner • May 28, 2009Like many of you, perhaps, I never gave much thought to where milk comes from. I always sort of thought cows just gave milk. But of course they don't. Like all mammals, cows give milk as a result of giving birth. Therefore, to maintain a steady supply we have to produce a steady supply of baby cows. But what happens to all those babies?
As swine flu fears spread, ag programs protect their pigs
Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2009Cal Poly and other facilities are taking steps to keep sick people away from their herds. It's unknown if pigs can catch this flu strain from people, but better safe than sick, they say.
Turkeys for Thanksgiving - as friends, not feast
Los Angeles Times • November 27, 2008One woman's vegan meal will include two rescued birds as guests. The holiday season can be challenging for those who abide by the diet free of all animal products, but the soy 'meat' will be bountiful.
Yogis take action
LA Yoga Magazine • November 2008For some people, the Esalen Institute, built on sacred Oceanside land just South of Big Sue, California, is both a cultural barometer and and a catalyst igniting progressive thought, action, and transformation.
Celebrities, animal lovers turn out for Acton sanctuary's gala
Antelope Valley Press • September 8, 2008ACTON - The well-heeled wore their compassion on their designer threads as hundreds of animal lovers turned out Saturday evening for a star-studded gala at the Animal Acres farm animal sanctuary.
Man sentenced to 2 years in prison for animal cruelty
Antelope Valley Press • July 10, 2008A 55-year-old man on probation in Florida pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony animal cruelty and was sentenced to two years in state Prison.
Animal Acres featured on "30 Days" television reality show
"30 Days" • June 17, 2008An avid hunter spends 30 days with animal rights activists, including several days at Animal Acres where he learns about the cruelties of factory farming, bonds with a rescued veal calf, and witnesses cruelty first-hand during an Animal Acres undercover cruelty investigation.
Antelope Valley man facing cruelty charges
LA Daily News • January 2008LANCASTER - County officials said Tuesday they will file animal cruelty charges against a man described as a hoarder whose 185 dogs and more than 100 farm animals - virtually all neglected and ill - have been turned over to animal rescue groups...
'Puppy mill' victims receiving treatment Facility's operator previously suspected in animal cases
The Antelope Valley Press • January 2008ANTELOPE ACRES - Volunteers withstood blustery winds and rain Monday as they cared for the remaining 108 dogs abandoned at a ranch used as an alleged "puppy mill" for breeding large numbers of dogs...
In Some Households, Every Day Is Turkey Day
The New York Times • November 2007It is one thing for the president of the United States to pardon a pair of turkeys every year and then send them off to live out their days in Florida. It's quite another to save a turkey from the Thanksgiving table by inviting it to live with you...
Kucinich Farms for Votes in Acton
The Signal • November 2007Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich admires some sheep at Animal Acres with Lorri Bauston, the farm's founder, on Saturday during the farm animal sanctuary's second annual "Thankful Turkeys" celebration...
Charity unleashed
Daily Pilot • November 2007The CIA Club made it on the front page of the Daily Pilot today. In the newspaper world, the Sunday paper is like the Rolls Royce, so it was rather exciting to lug home an L.A. Times this morning and flip in just one section to see The CIA Club on the front page of the Daily Pilot. (The article can be seen for a limited time online.)
MEAT IS MURDER
Santa Monica College Corsair Newspaper • MAY 2007On a recent visit to Animal Acres, a non-profit farm animal sanctuary in Acton, a 45-minutes drive from L.A., I began to question my eating lifestyle...
Celebrities Dine with the Animals
The Signal • January 2007Thanksgiving is grim season for millions of turkeys each year but for 17 fine feathered friends lucky enough to live at Animal Acres, a farm sanctuary and compassionate living center in Acton, it was a great holiday season that allowed them to show up at the table as guests rather than entrees - with actresses Daryl Hannah, Thora Birch and Mariana Tosca on hand to serve them...
Out of Farm's Way
Variety Magazine • August 2006Unlike this weekend's kiddie pic, "Barnyard", Animal Acres doesn't offer much in the way of musical numbers. However, founder Lorri Bauston says she does have a pig named Jamie who like belly rubs...
Farm Critters Live in Acton Animal Oasis
The Signal • July 2006It was a Fourth of July bash for all creatures great and small at Animal Acres in Acton for the annual "Pignic." Roosters strutted their stuff, turkeys gobbled and called out to passersby, chickens scratched and squeaked, a lamb frolicked on the lawn to the delight of small children, and a dog watched hopefully for a fallen morsel as guests dined on "veggie" hot dogs...
Paws Up! to Animal Acres
The Pet Gazette • April 2006Animal Acres, a unique paradise for farmed animals and the people who love them, will give any carnivore a run for their money! Located just 45 minutes north of Los Angeles on a beautiful 26-acre farm in Acton, California, here "cows, pigs, chickens and other farmed animals reach out and touch the human heart."...
The Menu? Food for Thought
The Los Angeles Times • March 2006It's a typical day at the animal sanctuary - Bagel is getting a good belly rub. Roscoe and Kirby are receiving pats and scratches on their heads. And Sophia and Precious Moment are being softly stroked as they nestle closer to humans...
Barnyard Dream
L.A. Daily News • October 2005When Lorri Bauston was 16, she announced to her family that she would no longer eat meat - the first step to a lifelong passion of protecting "food with a face" from the slaughterhouse...
Sanctuary and the City
U.S. Newswire • October 2005Farm animals have a new home in Los Angeles. On Saturday, Oct. 22, the Animal Acres farm animal sanctuary will open its barn doors. With Grand Opening Honorary Chairperson James Cromwell and other noted friends of farm animals, the new sanctuary hopes to put a "face on food..."
