Promote Compassion: Adopt a Turkey!

Hello friends and fellow animal lovers! Today is Thanksgiving! Although this holiday is a lovely opportunity to spend time with friends and family and share your love for them, every year millions of animal lives are lost in the process. Every year over 46 million turkeys lose their lives so that we can have a "traditional Thanksgiving". Turkeys are highly intelligent and emotional animals that bond strongly with their family members, and as all living beings, deserve to live. Did you know that turkeys purr like cats and that they enjoy listening to music?

This Thanksgiving, my mom surprised me with the wonderful gift of adopting a turkey through Farm Sanctuary in my name. Her name is Elsa and she is a beautiful turkey with an easygoing and somewhat shy nature. I already love her! My three-year-old cousin had a turkey named Anna adopted for her as well, and I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate this holiday. And let me say, my inner Frozen Fanatic was quite pleased as well.

Farm Sanctuary runs many programs that allow us, humans, to sponsor animals. If you are looking for a way this Thanksgiving to spread kindness and save lives, then this is a wonderful way to do it! I hope you have a wonderful holiday and that you do something for the animals. Whether it be serving a vegan turkey, or adopting an animal every little thing counts and the animals will thank you for it! Enjoy your holiday!

Yours,
The Compassionate Dreamer

*Take the Vegan Pledge* 

Riley Farm Rescue, CT

Hello again! Welcome back! I realized that although my passion for being vegan comes from my love of animals, I mostly write about food. And yes, writing about food I like is (hopefully) extremely helpful to both vegetarians, and vegans, but I haven’t really written many posts geared towards PEOPLE. Something that might make the average person in this world want a change, and feel inspired to make a difference. So today I am going to be writing about The Riley Farm Rescue in Connecticut.

The other day my mom showed me a few videos and photos that she had found on The Riley Farm Rescue on Instagram, and I immediately knew that I had to write a post about them. The photos and videos that my mom showed me were about an Easter livestock auction that the Riley’s went to in the hopes of saving some animals. They were able to save a lamb and his mother and bring them back home to their rescue. As well as saving the lamb and his mother (named Piggy and Daisy) they were able to rescue a goose named Sydney.

(Baby Piggy and Mama Daisy)