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A Day Trip to the Real Happiest Place on Earth
The Huffington Post • June 4, 2010A few months ago I felt that itching feeling coming up again, the one we all get from time to time beckoning us to bail out of Los Angeles for a bit. I just wanted to feel more connected to nature than my weekly 45-minute trek up Runyon Canyon. After some mild searching on line, I found what I now consider the real "happiest place on earth...."
Animal Sanctuary Rescue
sandiego6.com • April 16, 2010VALLEY CENTER - She claimed to be giving abused farm animals a sanctuary at the Purple Cow in rural East County. Now, Tiffany St. Ives is in jail, accused of a felony hit and run that took the life of a teenager and she is also accused of neglecting the animals she took donations to care for...
Volunteers rescue animals at troubled shelter
cbs8.com • April 15, 2010In Valley Center, more than 100 farm animals are getting a new lease on life after living in horrible conditions in a run-down animal sanctuary. Volunteers are busy moving the goats, chickens, cows and other animals to their new home near Los Angeles...
VALLEY CENTER: Animals rescued
nctimes.com • April 15, 2010Volunteer Mike Raphaeli carries a goat Thursday, as he and more than 20 other volunteers remove animals suffering from neglect from the Purple Cow ranch in Valley Center. Tiffany St. Ives, the owner of the ranch, has been accused in a 2007 fatal hit-and-run crash and is in jail. About 150 farm animals will be taken from the ranch to Animal Acres, a Los Angeles County animal sanctuary...
Volunteers round up jailed woman's goats
signonsandiego.com • April 15, 2010VALLEY CENTER - About 20 volunteers with a Los Angeles-based animal rescue center descended on a dusty 10-acre gulch in Valley Center on Thursday for a day of goat wrangling, after accused hit-and-run driver Tiffany St. Ives agreed to relinquish 130-plus animals she can no longer care for...
VALLEY CENTER: More than 140 farm animals rescued from ranch after owner arrested
nctimes.com • April 14, 2010With the owner of a Valley Center ranch behind bars, accused in a 2007 fatal hit-and-run crash, the ranch's farm animals ---- many of which are said to be hungry and ailing ---- will be moved to a rural Los Angeles County farm animal sanctuary this week...
A comedienne gets serious about veganism and animal rights
Vegetariantimes.com • February 2010PETA videos aren't usually laugh-out-loud funny--unless Carol Leifer's doing the talking. "I recently became vegan," she says in her online testimonial, "because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority."
To greener pastures: Farm animals from closed Six Flags attraction go to Acton sanctuary
The Signal • December 08, 2009Nine goats and two sheep evicted from Six Flags Magic Mountain found a new home at an Acton animal sanctuary Monday. Park employees also took some of the animals home after the Valencia theme park's Animal Farm attraction closed Sunday to make room for an expansion project, Magic Mountain officials said.
Gala for Animal Acres: Compassion Rocks!
SPLASH Magazine • September 14, 2009On September 12, I attended the annual Gala celebration for Animal Acres which proved to be both fun and inspirational. Animal Acres is a non-profit animal advocacy organization started in 2004 and dedicated to promoting farmed animal protection through direct rescue and shelter efforts, humane education, public outreach, and investigative actions to prevent cruelty to farmed animals.
A Tale of two Babies
LA Pet Rescue Examiner • May 28, 2009Like many of you, perhaps, I never gave much thought to where milk comes from. I always sort of thought cows just gave milk. But of course they don't. Like all mammals, cows give milk as a result of giving birth. Therefore, to maintain a steady supply we have to produce a steady supply of baby cows. But what happens to all those babies?
As swine flu fears spread, ag programs protect their pigs
Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2009Cal Poly and other facilities are taking steps to keep sick people away from their herds. It's unknown if pigs can catch this flu strain from people, but better safe than sick, they say.
Turkeys for Thanksgiving - as friends, not feast
Los Angeles Times • November 27, 2008One woman's vegan meal will include two rescued birds as guests. The holiday season can be challenging for those who abide by the diet free of all animal products, but the soy 'meat' will be bountiful.
Yogis take action
LA Yoga Magazine • November 2008For some people, the Esalen Institute, built on sacred Oceanside land just South of Big Sue, California, is both a cultural barometer and and a catalyst igniting progressive thought, action, and transformation.
Celebrities, animal lovers turn out for Acton sanctuary's gala
Antelope Valley Press • September 8, 2008ACTON - The well-heeled wore their compassion on their designer threads as hundreds of animal lovers turned out Saturday evening for a star-studded gala at the Animal Acres farm animal sanctuary.
Man sentenced to 2 years in prison for animal cruelty
Antelope Valley Press • July 10, 2008A 55-year-old man on probation in Florida pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony animal cruelty and was sentenced to two years in state Prison.
Animal Acres featured on "30 Days" television reality show
"30 Days" • June 17, 2008An avid hunter spends 30 days with animal rights activists, including several days at Animal Acres where he learns about the cruelties of factory farming, bonds with a rescued veal calf, and witnesses cruelty first-hand during an Animal Acres undercover cruelty investigation.
Antelope Valley man facing cruelty charges
LA Daily News • January 2008LANCASTER - County officials said Tuesday they will file animal cruelty charges against a man described as a hoarder whose 185 dogs and more than 100 farm animals - virtually all neglected and ill - have been turned over to animal rescue groups...
'Puppy mill' victims receiving treatment Facility's operator previously suspected in animal cases
The Antelope Valley Press • January 2008ANTELOPE ACRES - Volunteers withstood blustery winds and rain Monday as they cared for the remaining 108 dogs abandoned at a ranch used as an alleged "puppy mill" for breeding large numbers of dogs...
In Some Households, Every Day Is Turkey Day
The New York Times • November 2007It is one thing for the president of the United States to pardon a pair of turkeys every year and then send them off to live out their days in Florida. It's quite another to save a turkey from the Thanksgiving table by inviting it to live with you...
Kucinich Farms for Votes in Acton
The Signal • November 2007Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich admires some sheep at Animal Acres with Lorri Bauston, the farm's founder, on Saturday during the farm animal sanctuary's second annual "Thankful Turkeys" celebration...
Charity unleashed
Daily Pilot • November 2007The CIA Club made it on the front page of the Daily Pilot today. In the newspaper world, the Sunday paper is like the Rolls Royce, so it was rather exciting to lug home an L.A. Times this morning and flip in just one section to see The CIA Club on the front page of the Daily Pilot. (The article can be seen for a limited time online.)
MEAT IS MURDER
Santa Monica College Corsair Newspaper • MAY 2007On a recent visit to Animal Acres, a non-profit farm animal sanctuary in Acton, a 45-minutes drive from L.A., I began to question my eating lifestyle...
Celebrities Dine with the Animals
The Signal • January 2007Thanksgiving is grim season for millions of turkeys each year but for 17 fine feathered friends lucky enough to live at Animal Acres, a farm sanctuary and compassionate living center in Acton, it was a great holiday season that allowed them to show up at the table as guests rather than entrees - with actresses Daryl Hannah, Thora Birch and Mariana Tosca on hand to serve them...
Out of Farm's Way
Variety Magazine • August 2006Unlike this weekend's kiddie pic, "Barnyard", Animal Acres doesn't offer much in the way of musical numbers. However, founder Lorri Bauston says she does have a pig named Jamie who like belly rubs...
Farm Critters Live in Acton Animal Oasis
The Signal • July 2006It was a Fourth of July bash for all creatures great and small at Animal Acres in Acton for the annual "Pignic." Roosters strutted their stuff, turkeys gobbled and called out to passersby, chickens scratched and squeaked, a lamb frolicked on the lawn to the delight of small children, and a dog watched hopefully for a fallen morsel as guests dined on "veggie" hot dogs...
Paws Up! to Animal Acres
The Pet Gazette • April 2006Animal Acres, a unique paradise for farmed animals and the people who love them, will give any carnivore a run for their money! Located just 45 minutes north of Los Angeles on a beautiful 26-acre farm in Acton, California, here "cows, pigs, chickens and other farmed animals reach out and touch the human heart."...
The Menu? Food for Thought
The Los Angeles Times • March 2006It's a typical day at the animal sanctuary - Bagel is getting a good belly rub. Roscoe and Kirby are receiving pats and scratches on their heads. And Sophia and Precious Moment are being softly stroked as they nestle closer to humans...
Barnyard Dream
L.A. Daily News • October 2005When Lorri Bauston was 16, she announced to her family that she would no longer eat meat - the first step to a lifelong passion of protecting "food with a face" from the slaughterhouse...
Sanctuary and the City
U.S. Newswire • October 2005Farm animals have a new home in Los Angeles. On Saturday, Oct. 22, the Animal Acres farm animal sanctuary will open its barn doors. With Grand Opening Honorary Chairperson James Cromwell and other noted friends of farm animals, the new sanctuary hopes to put a "face on food..."
