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A Visit to Pasado's Safe Haven

Nestled in the green foothills about an hour's drive north of Seattle, Pasado's Safe Haven is home to a lucky menagerie of animals who've been saved from a life of neglect and abuse. Pasado's mission is to not only care for these critters but also to find them "forever homes" where they can live out their days. I remember learning about Pasado's not long after I moved to Seattle- it was founded in memory of a petting zoo donkey who was killed by some teenage boys. Animal sanctuaries not only care for animals but also educate the public to take better care of them. For instance, these 3 white chickens are survivors of the Turlock egg farm , where farmers left 50,000 chickens to starve to death in 2012 when they couldn't afford to keep the farm going. The fraction of those birds who were able to be nursed back to health after the 2 weeks of starvation that they endured were taken in by animal sanctuaries around the nation. These three gals see

Untangling the Story Behind Charlotte's Web

Wilbur burst into tears. "I don't want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the morning sun." That, of course, is the voice of Wilbur the pig from "Charlotte's Web." Charlotte, the spider, with her ability to write words in her web, does indeed save Wilbur from ending up on the dinner table. Having recently become vegan, I eagerly reread the book but was surprised to learn that the book's author, E.B. White, far from being a vegetarian or animal rights activist himself, was actually a gentleman farmer who raised pigs for food. How did someone who raised animals for food come to write one of the most compassionate farm animal tales of all time? E.B. White said that the original idea for the book popped into his head as he passed by his pig pen one day: "I began feeling sorry for the pig because, like most pigs, he

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