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Vegetarian Beef Farmer There are
Sends His Cows to Hillside... 650 rescued
cows lliving at
Hillside
In April 2017 we were asked to take over time, has seen that there was much inner life. They’re not just units of
in a herd of 70 cattle, including 30 more to these animals than we are led food. Knowing them personally
pregnant cows, after a massive to believe. makes it more difficult to think about
turnaround in thinking by the farmer, a eating them.’
vegetarian, who could no longer bear He said ‘I began to see that cows
to send his cows to the recognise each other, and they’ve got We were happy to welcome Jay’s
slaughterhouse. Instead, he got in very good memories.They also cows to the Sanctuary. During the
touch with theVegan Society, who experience a range of emotions – they summer all the pregnant cows safely
contacted Hillside to ask if we could can be sad, happy, bored, excited.They gave birth to calves and they will all
give the cows a permanent safe home do also have facial expressions.You can stay together as a herd for the rest of
in the Sanctuary. tell what a cow’s thinking by looking at their natural days.
it. I’ve even seen cows cry. Cows are
Jay, the farmer, had grown up working conscious of what goes on around The story of Jay’s cows coming to
with the family’s herd of cows but, them – they have personalities and an Hillside was featured on BBC
Countryfile in July 2017.
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