PETA AU Global 2021 Issue 2

Harvey’s Road to Recovery One morning, Harvey was able to eat without Helga’s help. After that, he improved every day. She started teaching him how to walk – strolling with him during her lunch breaks, holding his head up, and talking to him. At first, he turned in circles so small that one of his back legs just stayed put. Without Helga’s guiding hand, he always ended up banging into a wall. Then one afternoon, while they were walking along as usual, Harvey suddenly became very excited, lifting his head high and running in circles. The circles grew bigger and bigger until he was racing around the pasture. Exhausted, he plopped down and fell asleep. When he woke up, he’d regained his sight. The Calves’ Uncertain Future Was Looming Although Helga was elated over Harvey’s recovery, she knew that the calves

Rescued! Annabelle and Sophie share a secret.

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All photos of Helga Tacreiter and cows: © The Cow Sanctuary

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would be fully grown by the next year and would then be sent to the slaughterhouse. She kept feeding them, hugging them, and singing to them, but one day, she cried so hard that she couldn’t sing anymore. Finally, she decided that she could either sit around crying – or she could do something. So she started a “cow saving(s) account,” putting half her wages into a wooden box and sewing life-size cow shaped beanbag “ cow ches” to sell. Finally, she had saved enough money to buy all the calves and rent a patch of land – and The Cow Sanctuary was born. Take Action Now If you know anyone who isn’t vegan yet, take them to a farmed

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Harvey: sight restored!

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Helga’s newest resident, Daisy, settles in for a beautiful life.

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O ver the years, many animals rescued by PETA have found their way to The Cow Sanctuary – including Beatrice, a “4-H project” whose young human caretaker ran away with her to save her from slaughter; Jerry, a disabled calf rescued by a PETA investigator from a filthy dairy farm; and the “Doughnut Boys,” two starving cows who subsisted on stale doughnuts when the farmer who owned themwent bankrupt. Here’s how the whole thing began: Helga Tacreiter stopped eating animals when she was 21, but it wasn’t until she settled in rural New Jersey in 1988 that she did something truly extraordinary and unexpected. She founded The Cow Sanctuary, one of the first sanctuaries for farmed animals in the US.

thunderstorm, the mother cows were all found dead under a tree where they

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had sought shelter, every one of them killed by lightning. Miraculously, all six of their calves had survived. Helga named them Apple, Buffalo Bill, Burr-Head, Crooked Ear, Harvey, and Mary. Harvey had been temporarily blinded and could only walk in circles, repeatedly banging into the barn walls, so Helga started affectionately calling him “Harvey Wallbanger.” Every day, she picked fresh grass and patiently fed it to him one handful at a time. He was so debilitated that it sometimes took him all day to go through a bucket of grass. Cows are social animals, and Harvey craved companionship, so Helga stayed with him after her work was done, leaning against him as she read a book or ate a sandwich.

animal sanctuary to visit with the animals. There are vegan options for everything from milk to cheese to ice cream. ‘De calf’ your coffee by ordering plant milk at Philz Coffee, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Panera Bread, and other cafés and coffee shops, including Costa Coffee and Pret a Manger in the UK. And support the care of animals like Harvey by making a monthly pledge to PETA’s Investigations & Rescue Fund at PETA.org/RescueFund .

It Started With a Storm Helga took a job on a farm, caring for a small herd of “beef cattle.” One morning, after a severe

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BLINDED BY THE LIGHT(NING)