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Texas Cattle Ranch gone vegan in the heart of cattle country - leading in the space of farm transitions - @rancheradvocacyprogram

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The Veganic Transition Plan “gets it” — Vega The Veganic Transition Plan “gets it” — Vegans don’t?. The journey of 1000 steps starts with the first step, and the first to take a step into not just veganic gardening but full biocyclic standards certification in the UK is ex-dairy farmer Laurence Candy, who was our featured rancher at the recent RAP Summit. He had started to transition his farm to organic but discovered complications that kept him from pursuing organic dairy. Instead he met Rebecca Knowles of Farmers for Stock Free Farming and they decided together that the biocyclic standard was a worthy goal. Biocyclic is an important word if we’re to debunk the great last hope of “sustainable” ranching, the notion that “Regenerative Farming” involving rotation of crops also requires grazing animals in that rotation. Biocyclic is regenerative farming - WITHOUT the critters, or their poop. Laurence has some important words for vegans to understand HOW IT IS. Although he’s growing veganic, he’s neither vegan nor part of a vegan community, so he might someday be pleasantly surprised when vegans show him HOW IT COULD BE. It certainly seemed like a hopeless situation when I blocked the cow trailer lest our 30 cows be taken to the sale barn. But, when I made the rallying cry to the vegan community on the Internet they came swooping in on angel wings! Like Laurence, we have our legacy of firsts with Rowdy Girl Sanctuary. The way I see it, we’ve got a lot of firsts that RAP is destined to set! COME WITH US ON THIS LANDMARK PROJECT! BECOME A MEMBER TODAY BY FOLLOWING THE LINK 🔗IN OUR BIO! #northwoodfarm #biocyclic #biocyclicstandard #vegan #plantbased #veganlifestyle #rowdysummer2021 #rowdygirlsanctuary #veganfarmers #veganranchers #plantbasedfarming #veganinvestors #govegan #rowdygirlsanctuary #rancheradvocacyprogram #rapsummit #rapsummit2021 #meatlesseveryday #dxe #healthsave #climatesave #climatehealers #veganworld2026 #veganicfarm #veganfarm #veganicgarden #veganrancher #vegancowgirl
Y’all all know Tommy used to be a cattle rancher Y’all all know Tommy used to be a cattle rancher – he never got too close to any of the animals because they were used for breedin and sellin! Now, he gets up close and personal with most all of em, and every now and then he’s caught off guard by one of our friendly critters that wants a little bit more attention and can be quite demanding in the “ask”!   Such is the case here with Panda, one of our rescues from a backyard slaughterhouse in Florida. If there are two words that make a very bad match in ANY town, state, or country, it’s “backyard slaughterhouse.” Seriously, Florida, where are your limits?! Of course, slaughter of animals is federally regulated so big animals in particular need oversight that wouldn’t work in residential neighborhoods. I hope the neighbors weren’t traumatized, but understood enough of the nasty business to go vegan!

Especially when the slaughterhouses weren’t able to keep up during the COVID-19 pandemic there was an outcry among ranchers to open more independent abattoirs (a pretty name, like “atrium” — but nothing pretty happens there!). A recent study showed that standards actually got WORSE when relegated to small slaughter operations. Seems like size is unrelated to people’s desire to keep the Killing Machine running.

I don’t need to ask Tommy how much he would have wanted his own slaughterhouse to make his ranch a one-stop shop.  The long, sad trip to and from the sale barn was bad enough! The weight of sorrow that has been lifted from our lives is profound. Rowdy Girl Sanctuary is now a happy place for us, the animals, and our visitors! FOLLOW THE LINK 🔗 TO FIND OUT HOW! #rowdysummer2021 #rowdygirlsanctuary #vegan #plantbased #veganlifestyle #friendsnotfood #compassion #speciesism #veganfarmers #veganranchers #plantbasedfarming #veganinvestors #govegan #rowdygirlsanctuary #rancheradvocacyprogram #rapsummit #rapsummit2021 #meatlesseveryday #babystepsR4babies #dxe #healthsave #climatesave #climatehealers #veganworld2026 #veganicfarm #veganfarm #veganicgarden #veganrancher #vegancowgirl
Newest additions to the Rowdy Girl Family. It’s Newest additions to the Rowdy Girl Family. It’s a rancher’s job is to grow food to feed the world, and every things got a place on the dinner plate, whether it’s corn, potatoes or carrots ’n’ peas on the side or the entree in the center. No doubt the swagger in the marketing catchphrase “Beef - it’s what’s for dinner” comes from pride in the tradition and culture of cattle ranching as an honorable way of life.   When Mary contacted me a couple months ago, it was because her daughter follows us on Facebook and knew that we have a real soft spot for cattle ranchers that fall in love with their cows. Mary was so distraught when I spoke to her because she found Grace as a calf on their land, all cut up on her underside by barbed wire. Mary loves Grace and the tenderness between them is palpable.   Generational farmers are raised to believe that they are doing a good thing by cattle ranching and providing food for people. But underneath there are unspoken taboo subjects that are very difficult to honestly face and still do “their job”— Ranchers in the business of making money for their families “get rid of their problems” by selling them to the beef industry. Mary could never apply the word “beef” to Grace, who she raised from a bottle. She knows that if a breeder cow becomes a burden then they go to slaughter, but talking about it is another story—it hurts too much. You can imagine her relief to find Grace a home on a sanctuary! When we met her husband, Vernis, it was obvious that he was just as softhearted as Mary.   Already, ranchers are needed less and less to “feed the world.” I dream of a vegan world where cattle ranchers and animal farmers grow plants for the booming plant-based food sector. Whether its food, fashion, or plastics – plants are needed, and when ranchers are given a choice, it is my greatest wish to help them make connections to grow food that is grown, not born.   Now let’s gush over this gorgeous little boy Randy, and her sweet, gentle mother, so appropriately named Grace. 
 Now let’s gush over this gorgeous little boy Randy, and her sweet, gentle mother, so appropriately named Grace. YOU CAN VIRTUALLY ADOPT THEM AS OF TODAY -- TWO FOR THE FEE OF ONE!
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Just wanted y’all all to know that I’m getting Just wanted y’all all to know that I’m getting better every day! I can eat whatever I want now. (Scroll right to see some of the good food we’ve been enjoying by @hungryplanetfoods I go back to see the surgeon next month and at that time I’ll get the all clear to get my bone grafts and implants. One foot in front of the other! Y’all have no idea how much I appreciate it that you kept the rowdy spirit thriving when I couldn’t and needed to lay my head down every 30 minutes! So blessed to have new arrivals Jan, Dusty, Grace and Randy. We gotta newsletter coming out tomorrow all about Grace and Randy’s story, so if you’re not SUBSCRIBED yet click on our bio to get our rowdy news! Much love, Reneé
Linda Middlesworth supports #RallyForRowdy. Thank Linda Middlesworth supports #RallyForRowdy. Thank you, Linda Middlesworth, for your sweet comments that you recorded to cheer and support me while I recovered from my jaw surgery. I’d say I’m speechless, but I’ve found my words again and my recovery, although measured across the calendar, has been remarkable. I managed to co-host a RAP Summit that went over two hours, holding my own amongst a panel in spirited discussion! It is fitting that Linda’s is the last of the well-wishing recordings of the #RallyForRowdy campaign, as she has been such a good friend for so long — the worry in her voice that my setbacks could reflect on Rowdy Girl Sanctuary is sincere! But I’m happy to declare the campaign a success, due in no small part to the donors and other extended family who stepped up and made some noise while I couldn’t!

You may know Linda as the cofounder of V-dog, but her credentials stand out beyond the nutritional expertise that goes into the average bag of dog chow. She’s a Food For Life instructor who mentors her clients with fluid knowledge of the vegan docs y’all know — Barnard, McDougall, Esselstyn, Campbell and Greger. To her, health goes beyond your diet to exercise, self-esteem, community, and resilience as we advocate for animals. (She helped PETA fight Ringling Bros. Circus for 20 years — that’s endurance!) And Linda’s everywhere, so if you haven’t encountered her, chances are you soon will!

IF THE LADY MAKES SENSE AND SUPPORTING ROWDY GIRL FITS YOUR PRIORITIES AND POCKETBOOK, FOLLOW THE LINK 🔗TO OUR DONATIONS PAGE! 

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Have you ever just hung out with a herd? One of th Have you ever just hung out with a herd? One of the perks of my job as the Rowdy Momma of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary is to make my rounds, make eye contact, give a nod (“’sup?”) and sprawl on the grass with the residents. You can see their posture and attitude change, just like someone with whom you’ve engaged in small talk. Psychologists call it “keeping the channel open,” and vets say the same thing about cats when they purr, they’re saying, “I see you, I acknowledge you, I appreciate you.”  Can you imagine these animals, with social customs and rituals as complex as our own, living out their existence in factory farms? I shudder at the thought of how families are disrupted EVERY moment of EVERY DAY for the sake of “animal husbandry.” Let’s all get together and decide it’s time to DIVORCE ANIMAL HUSBANDRY! And we can start the divorce without any papers — just go vegan, get your family to go vegan. If they won’t, bring ‘em to a farm sanctuary.  If they still won’t, bring ‘em to a slaughterhouse! (See if there’s an Animal Save chapter in your town — they’ll show you where and how, and give you support while you bear witness together.) Farm sanctuaries are where animals are treated right, so we can see that the other way is wrong. To help Rowdy Girl Sanctuary with our mission, FOLLOW THE LINK 🔗 IN OUR BIO TO DONATE, BECOME A MEMBER, OR VIRTUALLY ADOPT ONE OF OUR RESIDENT ANIMALS! #divorceanimalhusbandry #vegan #plantbased #veganlifestyle #rowdysummer2021 #rowdygirlsanctuary #veganfarmers #veganranchers #plantbasedfarming #veganinvestors #govegan #rowdygirlsanctuary #rancheradvocacyprogram #rapsummit #rapsummit2021 #meatlesseveryday #babystepsR4babies #dxe #healthsave #climatesave #climatehealers #veganworld2026 #veganicfarm #veganfarm #veganicgarden #veganrancher #vegancowgirl
In the Western world people are shocked by the new In the Western world people are shocked by the news of dog-eating festivals (while we have our pig-eating festivals) and the hot topic of wet markets make us think that other cultures are outrageous in their bush meat (monkeys) and wet markets (bats and pangolins…well, some in Texas will eat armadillo, which gotta be a pangolin’s cousin!).   But global animal agriculture is pretty familiar all around — chickens, pigs, dairy, eggs, cows, turkeys, ducks, sheep and goats. If you think about it, most of us draw the line somewhere, like lots of omnivores who won’t eat lamb or veal because they know it’s a baby, or foie gras because they’ve heard about the horrible practice of force-feeding geese with a tube.   There are THOUSANDS of species we regularly go without eating, animals like elephants or pandas or starfish or lemur. It would be considered extreme to your neighbors if you should offer up a plate of orangutan, right? Or how about your next door neighbor’s pet turtle? Yet there is a stigma that follows veganism that BEING VEGAN IS EXTREME because we don’t eat animals…seriously!!! How is it extreme to NOT KILL AN ANIMAL to eat when we don’t have to? And whether you personally slaughter an animal or order their hit through your dietary choices, you are responsible and have blood on your hands.  Look at that photo and tell me which one of those animals you think wants to have their throat slit so you can feel satisfied?   Meatless Monday probably seemed pretty crazy back when it started in 2003. John Hopkins University found enough evidence to prove that eating a plant based diet the global burden of chronic preventable diseases.   Since then the World Health Organization has declared processed meat a carcinogen and red meat a probable carcinogen, and despite the rising mercury levels in fish their population is being depleted by a growing fleet. This cowgirl thinks that it’s radical to NOT go vegan, from this day forward! Go #MeatlessEveryDay, y’all!   To help support Rowdy Girl’s Meatless Every Day campaign please donate or BECOME A MEMBER of the sanctuary — you can make it fun by virtually adopting one of our resident animals! FOLLOW THE LINK🔗IN OUR BIO
That's because Animal Agriculture IS a crime! Anim That's because Animal Agriculture IS a crime! Animals are brutalized for their flesh and bodily secretions. They're slaughtered at a fraction of their lifetime. The process of growing their food and raising them is destroying the planet. And we are making ourselves sick in the process. Don't be an accessory to crime--Please leave animals off your plate! . . . #animalrights #veganmeme #veganmemes #quotes #animalliberation #friendsnotfood #savemovement #DXE #animalslover #animallover #pigs #sheep #cows #goats #chickens #turkeys #ducks #animalsanctuary #animalrescue #FFA #4H #food #bacon #foodie #recipes #vegan #veganaf
National Day of the Cowboy is celebrated on the 4t National Day of the Cowboy is celebrated on the 4th Saturday of July. It recognizes the stoic, hardworking symbol of the American West. The era of the cowboy began after the Civil War in the heart of TEXAS. Cattle were herded long before this time, but in Texas they grew wild and unchecked.  In fact, TOMMY often tells the story of his great Grandfather rounding up cows on an open range in San Antonio in the late 1800’s and driving em all the way to Houston where he had a slaughter house. Tommy still has the spurs and the SON brands of his forefathers.   Tommy’s been living the cowboy culture for a long time…and that didn’t end when he took a hard left and went vegan.  In fact, I often say that at Rowdy Girl Sanctuary, there’s always a vegan rodeo going on around here, but there ain’t no roping, branding, pushing or prodding—just good ole fashioned country livin’ and lovin’ for the 100+farm animals that call Rowdy Girl home—and 67 of them critters are bovine!   To go from a cattle ranching Texas cowboy that used to take animals to the sale barn, to caring for the cows he used to make money off of is indeed a new twist on what it means to be a cowboy! In my books, he’s more of a cowboy now than he ever was—the old cowboy stereotypes were brutal towards cows. I get to watch Tommy be the most gentle, kind hearted man ever towards these cows and he loves them with his whole heart for their whole life. Their lives are never cut short for profit anymore. They are no longer units of production – they are our friends—they are our family. 
Let’s celebrate the ultimate modern cowboy — the vegan cowboy — the sanctuary man, instead of the Marlboro man. Let’s sing songs of animal liberation and deliverance from slaughter!

Now click on the link 🔗 in our bio to get on down to our website to REGISTER for TODAY’S SUMMIT — it starts at HIGH NOON, Texas time (Central)!
This nose right here makes me so happy- the cows a This nose right here makes me so happy- the cows are so chill that when we’re in the Kawasaki mule they come over and stick there heads all the way in to get treats - they are our family just like our dogs and cats - no difference except there upwards of 1200-1500 pounds but so gentle—most of the time. The ones that have never known violence are very independent- they are individuals with distinct personalities and sometimes their personalities border on intensely playful and when a 1500 pound steer wants to play it can get interesting. Always gotta have your wits about ya for sure….keeps life interesting! Hope y’all can make it to the Summit tomorrow- still time to get registered!’ LINK 🔗IN BIO
Tommy with Grace and Randy- the two that were resc Tommy with Grace and Randy- the two that were rescued from a ranchers wife named Mary. Grace had a bad case of mastitis and was destined for an unhappy ending and Randy would’ve wound up an orphan who’s fate would’ve been tragic. Now they are both free to be themselves- they will be bonded for life and cherished. It’s so beautiful to watch them adjusting to life at Rowdy Girl. They are at peace and adapting to the rowdy rhythm. SUPPORT OUR LIFESAVING WORK AND BECOME A MEMBER 🔗 IN MY BIO.
3 DAYS til the RAP SUMMIT! Members and the Media a 3 DAYS til the RAP SUMMIT! Members and the Media are FREE! And if you wanna come and are experiencing a financial hardship—no problem—WE GOT YOU COVERED! Are you ready to join the conversation? “What can farmers do on their land to thrive without using animals?” My co-host, Jane Velez Mitchell and I will be talking to an expert line up of panelists about: veganic farming, transitioning farms, legislation to help farmers grow plants, food deserts, land grants, climate change, bringing farming back to urban communities, the horrors of being a dairy farmer, the spiritual repercussions of eating animals and why animal agriculture is the leading cause of climate change! CHECK OUT THE LINK 🔗 IN MY BIO to LEARN MORE, BECOME A SPONSOR & TO GET REGISTERED! Join us for the RAP Summit this Saturday
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