The Grumpy Vegan believes it’s important to remember how the campaign against downers, which culminated in Obama’s recent decision, was started with the rescue of Hilda by Farm Sanctuary.
After Farm Sanctuary’s rescue of Hilda, a downed sheep who was left on the “dead pile” behind Lancaster Stockyards in 1986, media exposés about downed animal abuses in the 80s and 90s led the U.S.D.A. to start a surveillance program to monitor stockyards.
