10/02/2025
Today is World Day for Farmed Animals.
At Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation, we take this day to reflect on the millions of animals who live and die in conditions most of us would find unimaginable. These animals are often referred to as farm animals, but we call them what they are — farmed animals — because their lives are controlled, confined, and taken by systems created by humans.
Cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and others have long been domesticated by humans, but that does not make their lives any less their own. They are not here to serve a purpose or fill a role; they are living beings with thoughts, preferences, and the ability to feel joy, fear, comfort, and pain. Too often, their familiarity leads to indifference, and their exploitation is accepted without question. But these animals, like all others, have a right to live free from harm.
Here’s what you can do today:
— Remember —
That farmed animals have thoughts, feelings, intellect, and complex personalities just like you and me, and given the choice would never ask to be sent to slaughter.
— Educate Yourself —
And others about issues such as factory farming that affect not only farmed animals, but the entire planet.
All of the animals pictured here live safe and protected at WRR’s Kendalia Sanctuary — a place where they are no longer “used”, but simply allowed to be.
A more compassionate world is possible, and it begins with us. 🌎🩵
📷: Jay Kazen
