Petunia’s Pledge: Continuing Your Journey
Like so many of you, I was raised in a meat and potatoes family. Breakfast was often eggs with bacon or sausage. Lunch was a sandwich: ham and cheese, turkey, …
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Standing Up Through Coronavirus: Love Spoken Here
As all but our intrepid animal care team works from home, we’re doing our best to support each other, our caretakers, and the beloved members of our CAS family…in other …
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Getting Back To Work: A Review of 2019 + A Resolution To Keep Going
When both Forbes and The Economist boldly dubbed 2019 the Year of the Vegan, the bar was set high: could we make enough measurable progress in a year to earn …
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Onward, Friends, for All of Us: Reflections on World Vegan Day
Is your glass half empty or half full? As worldwide consumption of animals increases and climate chaos accelerates, have you given up, or are you standing tall, determined to do …
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We Are Blessed With Good Neighbors
When we moved our fledgling sanctuary, barely a year old, to Old Stage Road in the winter of 2003, we were struggling to stay afloat. It would be years before we had …
World Day For Farmed Animals
Today, October 2, marks the 36th observance of World Day for Farmed Animals, and my heart is heavy. It’s heavy because each land animal born to our food system—some seventy …
Founder Director Kathy Stevens to Speak at Toronto VegFest
Attention, Canadian vegans, vegetarians, and almost-therians: mark your calendars for September 6th-8th for VegFoodFest in Toronto! Catskill Animal Sanctuary’s Founder/Director Kathy Stevens will be there to speak about “Cows, Cooking …
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Upcoming Events at the Sanctuary
There’s always something wonderful happening at Catskill Animal Sanctuary! Our Life After Cheese class on June 15th still has a few spots open! We’re open for tours on Thursday, July …
She Wanted Her Life: Considering Your Barbecued Chicken
If you’re like me, there’s little you won’t do to enrich the life of your dog or your cat: we want our beloveds to thrive. That same approach occurs here …
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Animals as Partners in Our Work for a Vegan World: A Response to Effective Altruism
It feels ironic that as the number of sanctuaries worldwide explodes, so, too, does the criticism of sanctuaries by prominent players within the animal rights movement. This is largely due …
