Pick Me Up!

HIP HOP HOORAY!

Hauling a shovel out of storage, I got straight to work. Holding my nose, I scooped animal mess into the bucket and swept the floor clean.

Job done, I thought, rubbing my hands together.

It was 2018, and I had joined a volunteering programme at Woodstock Farm Sanctuary in High Falls, New York.

A rescue centre to provide farmed animals with a safe place to live.

Pigs, cows, chickens, goats, ducks, and any animals in the food system had been given a second lease

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