Timeline of Farm Sanctuary
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This is a timeline of Farm Sanctuary, an American animal protection organization. It is the first national organization created specifically for the purpose of building advocacy campaigns around a refuge for the abused and abandoned.[1]
Contents
Big picture
| Time period | Development summary |
|---|---|
| 1980s | Farm Sanctuary is founded. The Adopt a Turkey Project is launched in 1986. |
| 1990s | Farm Sanctuary establishes its first permanent farm animal shelter. In 1993, it achieves the first-ever conviction of a stockyard in the United States for animal mistreating. |
| 2000s | Farm Sanctuary launches the Veg for Life Campaign in 2003. During Hurricane Katrina, the organization and other groups manage to rescue birds hit by the catastrophe. In 2008, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food is released, documenting the history of the organization. |
| 2010s | As of 2011, Farm Sanctuary is considered among the top five high-impact nonprofits working on animal welfare, rights, and protection in the United States. |
Full timeline
| Year | Event type | Details | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Founding | Farm Sanctuary is founded by husband-and-wife Gene Baur and Lorri Houston in a rowhouse in Wilmington, Delaware. Rescued farmed animals are brought in, rehabilitated, and adopted out as quickly as possible to make room for new arrivals.[1][2][3] | Wilmington, Delaware |
| 1986 | Activism | A sheep named Hilda is the first animal rescued by Farm Sanctuary, lifted from a “downer” dead pile at a stockyard.[4] | |
| 1986 | Activism | Farm Sanctuary launches the annual Adopt a Turkey Project, encouraging people to save a turkey instead of eating one at Thanksgiving.[5] Since its launch, the Adopt-A-Turkey Project runs every November with new “spokesturkeys” urging people to adopt them.[6][7][8] | |
| 1986 | Education | Farm Sanctuary launches its Volunteer Internship Program,[4] which train people in rescue, education and advocacy.[9] | |
| 1987 | Activism | Farm Sanctuary holds its first Walk for Farm Animals, helping to raise funds and awareness. These Walks would take place in more than 50 cities across North America.[4] | |
| 1987 | Facility | The original sanctuary moves from Wilmington, Delaware to two acres of farmland near Avondale, Pennsylvania.[1] | Pennsylvania |
| 1990 | Facility | Farm Sanctuary establishes its first permanent farm animal shelter on 175 acres in Watkins Glen, New York.[4] | Watkins Glen, New York |
| 1992 | Activism | Farm Sanctuary persuades the Burger King restaurant at Watkins Glen to sell a veggie burger. Its success leads to the introduction of the BK Veggie burger nationwide.[4] | Watkins Glen, New York |
| 1993 | Facility | Farm Sanctuary opens a shelter in Orland, California.[10] | California |
| 1993 | Activism | Farm Sanctuary achieves first-ever conviction of a stockyard in the United States for mistreating a downed animal after prosecuting Lancaster Stockyards in Pennsylvania.[4][11][12] | Pennsylvania |
| 1995 | Activism | Farm Sanctuary helps pass a law which prevents dragging, pushing, holding, or selling downed animals at stockyards and slaughterhouses in California. Other states would follow, passing similar laws.[4] | California |
| 1996 | Funding | Farm Sanctuary establishes the RESTRICTED SHELTER FUND to provide for the safety and well-being of the sanctuary animals. Operated as an endowment for FS's shelters, the Fund generates annual income and secure funding.[13] | |
| 1996 (27 August) | Internet domain | farmsanctuary.org is registered.[14] |
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| 2001 | Event | The first ever star-studded Farm Sanctuary Gala for Farm Animals is held in New York City.[4] | New York City |
| 2003 | Activism | Farm Sanctuary launches the Veg for Life Campaign to encourage people to move toward a plant-based diet to promote good health, environmental stewardship, and compassion toward animals.[4] | |
| 2004 | Activism | Farm Sanctuary is invited to speak about animal rights at the United States Department of Agriculture, the first time an animal rights organization is asked to speak publicly at the USDA.[4] | |
| 2005 | Activism | Farm Sanctuary and other groups manage to rescue as many birds as possible during Hurricane Katrina, with hundreds of dehydrated and starving chickens being brought to the New York Shelter.[15][16][4] | |
| 2006 | Policy | Farm Sanctuary backs campaign in Arizona to vote yes on Proposition 204 to ban the use of gestation crates for breeding pigs and veal crates for calves in the state.[4] | |
| 2006 (November 6) | Film release | Farm Sanctuary publishes the first video on its Youtube channel, an advertisement on the Save a Turkey campaign, which promotes rescuing turkeys instead of eating them.[17] | |
| 2007 | Activism | Farm Sanctuary rescues over 200 animals from live markets in New York City. Notable cases include Joey, the goat from Brooklyn[18]; Lucky Lady, the sheep from the Bronx[19]; and Maxine, the cow from Queens.[4] | |
| 2008 | Book | Gene Baur publishes Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, documenting the history of the organization.[4] | |
| 2009 | Policy | Signal Mountain, Tennessee becomes first city in the United States to pass a Green Foods Resolution, after launch of Farm Sanctuary’s Green Foods Campaign to promote plant-based eating in local communities.[20] | Signal Mountain, Tennessee |
| 2010 | Activism | Farm Sanctuary petitions the United States Department of Agriculture to stop allowing the sale of livestock who are too sick or injured to walk.[4] | |
| 2010 | Recognition | Farm Sanctuary is voted “Favorite Animal Sanctuary” for the third year in a row in VegNews Magazine’s Veggie Awards readers’ poll.[4][21][20] | |
| 2011 | Recognition | A group of 170 experts identify Farm Sanctuary as among the top five high-impact nonprofits working on animal welfare, rights, and protection in the United States.[4][13] | |
| 2012 (November 15) | Film release | Farm Sanctuary publishes video What Came Before, a short documentary showing horrific scenes of standard procedures in factory farming. The video gains notability.[22] | |
| 2013 (January) | Study | US-based international farm animal protection organization The Humane League runs a series of online advertisements to see which farm animal cruelty video was more effective at inspiring young women to want to change their diet: What Came Before or Farm To Fridge. A total of 83,000 viewers are tracked. A smaller-scale comparison, reaching 19,000 viewers, includes two additional farm animal cruelty videos in the comparison: 10 Billion Lives and Meet Your Meat. As a result, What Came Before outperformed the other farm animal cruelty videos by a large margin. Young women who viewed What Came Before were 70% more likely to click to order a vegetarian starter guide than those who saw Farm To Fridge.[23][24] | |
| 2013 | Program | Farm Sanctuary launches The Someone Project, with the goal of providing information on the cognitive complexity of animals.[25] | |
| 2014 (June 23) | Publication | Farm Sanctuary publishes Toward a New Fish Consciousness: an interview with Dr. Culum Brown at thedodo.com. Brown, a fish scientist, explains that "fish have a high degree of behavioral plasticity and compare favorably to humans and other terrestrial vertebrates across a range of intelligence tests."[26] |
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| 2015 (February 19) | Publication | Farm Sanctuary publishes 6 Fascinating Sheep Facts In Honor Of The Lunar New Year, an article emphasizing the intelligence and personality of sheeps.[27] |
Visual data
Google Trends
The comparative chart below shows Google Trends data for Farm Sanctuary (Topic) and Farm Sanctuary (Search term), from January 2004 to February 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.[28]
Google Ngram Viewer
The chart below shows Google Ngram Viewer data for Farm Sanctuary, from 1986 to 2019.[29]
Wikipedia Views
The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article Farm Sanctuary, on desktop from December 2007, and on mobile-web, desktop-spider, mobile-web-spider and mobile app, from July 2015; to January 2021.[30]
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See also
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Phelps, Norm. The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA.
- ↑ "About Farm Sanctuary". farmsanctuary.org. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ↑ DeMello, Margo. Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-animal Studies.
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 "Victories and Milestones". farmsanctuary.org. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ↑ "Make This Thanksgiving Memorable". farmsanctuary.org. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ↑ "Turkeys". farmsanctuary.typepad.com. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ↑ "Farm Sanctuary Launches National Adopt-A-Turkey Project". businesswire.com. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ↑ "NBA Champ John Salley Visits the California Shelter". farmsanctuary.typepad.com. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ↑ "DawnWatch: People magazine asks, "Should strays be killed?" — Nov 6 , 2006 edition". easyvegan.info. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ↑ "Animals of Farm Sanctuary". animalsoffarmsanctuary.com. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
- ↑ "Diseased, Injured and Sick Animals Enter Our Food Chain In Factory Farming". fursforus.com. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ↑ "Milestones in Animal Rights and Animal Welfare". davidsztybel.info. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "2011 Annual Report" (PDF). farmsanctuary.org. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ↑ "farmsanctuary.org". whois.com. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ↑ "Remembering the Rescue Chickens of Katrina". blog.farmsanctuary.org. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ↑ "The Sanctuaries". farmsanctuary.org. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ↑ "Corey Feldman Adopt-A-Turkey PSA". youtube.com. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ↑ "BROOKLYN GOAT ESCAPES SLAUGHTERHOUSE AND FINDS REFUGE AT FARM SANCTUARY". veggieboards.com. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
- ↑ "Lucky Lady". farmsanctuary.org. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Farm Sanctuary celebrates 25 years of farm animal advocacy". hornface.com. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ↑ "In the News". farmsanctuary.typepad.com. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ↑ "What Came Before, featuring Steve-O: The Truth About Meat and Modern Farms". youtube.com. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ↑ "Report: Which factory farming video is more effective?". humaneleaguelabs.org. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
- ↑ "Which factory farming video is more effective?". talk.eco. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
- ↑ "10 Amazing Farm Animal Sanctuaries You Should Support". onegreenplanet.org. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ↑ "Toward a New Fish Consciousness: an interview with Dr. Culum Brown". thedodo.com. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ↑ "6 Fascinating Sheep Facts In Honor Of The Lunar New Year". thedodo.com. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ↑ "Farm Sanctuary". Google Trends. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ↑ "Farm Sanctuary". books.google.com. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ "Farm Sanctuary". wikipediaviews.org. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
