Jon and Tracey Stewart announced their plan Saturday while being honored by the animal advocacy group Farm Sanctuary. The Stewarts bought a farm of their own to start a sanctuary but have decided to make it officially the New Jersey branch of the Farm Sanctuary organization. She has advised her husband not to worry or overanalyze his journey toward a plant-based lifestyle, but to focus instead on learning how to see animals as individuals with rights, desires, and personalities of their own.
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Farm Sanctuary, a stalwart for animal rights for decades, is partnering with the Stewarts to turn their 12-acre farm in Middletown, New Jersey, into a haven for downtrodden creatures.
Farm Sanctuary was founded in 1986 and now operates animal refuges in upstate New York, Los Angeles, and Orland, California.
It’s hard to think of a job that could follow Jon Stewart’s role as the host of The Daily Show. While the hope is that the Stewarts’ animal sanctuary will eventually be open to the public, it’s now available by reservation only. Now they are turning that land into Bufflehead Farm, with the aim of not only homing former farm animals but also providing children with empathy for its residents through education. Tracey’s website moomah.com is all about improving the lives of animals and she even parlayed that into a book titled Do Unto Animals.
Besides, when you’ve got a live-in human like Tracey Stewart, what other humans do you need? “If everyone did a bit more, if they fell in love a little bit more, so much could happen”.
I know many in the vegan community will run out and buy this book for their vegan/AR book collection, and it’s hard not to with a portion of the proceeds going to Farm Sanctuary (and why not). You can show tenderness.
He cracked, “I didn’t know you could find so many compassionate people to fill a room”.
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And Bufflehead, the farm the Stewarts bought in 2013, will make four.
