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Picnic at Peaceful Prairie

Posted In: Everyday life — May 22, 2005 @ 9:35 pm — Peter

Friday night we made a quick decision to trek out to the Picnic at Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary. We’ve been wanting to check the sanctuary out for a while now and this was a great event to attend for our first visit. We arrived right when things got started around noon and took a quick walk around the farm. After more people arrived, we got more brave about approaching the animals. I was very uneasy around some of these large guys, especially the ones equipped with horns that could do some damage if they got upset. We brought some produce with us to help us make friends and we quickly became popular with the goat crowd. One feisty goat named Michael was especially fond of Stephanie and kept following her around despite running out of carrots. I’m surprised we didn’t find him hiding in the backseat of our car when we got home!

Most important to me was the opportunity to get up close and personal with a cow. Well, in this case a bull. I’ve been vegetarian for 7 years now and vegetarian for longer… During this time, i’ve never had the opportunity to be around farm animals knowing I don’t contribute to their suffering. It was amazing to pet Sherman’s head and tell him “I would never eat you.”

I’m so happy we went to the picnic. After seeing how hard the crew works, we’ll massage our budget a bit and see about sponsoring a chicken next year. Thanks to Peaceful Prairie for giving these wonderful animals a second chance!

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