Living Free: A Farmed Animal Sanctuary In Kerala, India

- So many people claim themselves as "animal lovers" but their animal love is limited to dogs and cats only. But all animals are the same. We don't have any right to kill for us or rescued (pet) animals. My name is Jayaseelan TD I am from Trivandrum, Kerala. I turned vegan during my teenage years. I turned vegan because I don't want to be part of animal suffering. Animals feel pain like us, and they all have the same right to live here. So I don't want to be part of animal abuse, so I turned veg

an. (light-hearted music) There were lot of millipedes in my place. People used to throw them or they used to kill by pouring kerosene on their head, even my family members also. So when they were busy, they will ask me to do it, but I couldn't do. I saved the millipedes. That time, in that moment, I thought that fish and hens are also like these millipedes. So I stopped eating fish and eggs that moment. And after some years when I saw that the cows are tied up in trees and the babies are separa

ted from mothers, I understood the cruelty behind the milk. So I stopped using milk and milk products. But I knew the term "vegan" after many years. I started the Ahimsa Farm Animal Sanctuary in 2011 or 2012. I had two roosters, rescued roosters actually I rescued them from my home. They bought five chicks for taking eggs. When they grew up, three were females and two were males. So they decided to sell the two roosters. I opposed it, and from that moment onwards, I started to take care of them.

After some years, a situation arose, and I couldn't keep them at my house. So I started to find some rescue places in Kerala, but I couldn't find any place for the roosters. Their name was Gary and Watson. Actually, they are the first rescued babies. See broiler babies have a special place in my heart because they're one of the most abused animals all over the world. Humans kill them when they are just five, six weeks old. From the birth till the time they are killed they are going through a lo

t of torture and pain, they never get even one second of a happy life. We rescued a lot of broiler hens. Personally, I feel very satisfied rescuing. At least we could rescue around 150 broiler hens' lives till now. The broiler hens we have rescued from "animal lovers" also because animal lovers kill these broiler hens for feeding dogs and cats. Slowly, slowly, we started to rescue new farm animals. In 2020, we bought land. We all together pooled up the money and we bought this land, and we start

ed to take in more and more animals, especially large animals. Right now we have around 250 animals. Half of them are goats. 25 large sized animals, bulls, buffalo, cows, and around a hundred small animals, so broiler hens and broiler roosters, ducks, goose, turkeys, rabbits, bat. This is how I started the sanctuary when I realized that there is no place for farmed animals, rescued farmed animals. So many people claim themselves as "animal lovers" but their animal love is limited to dog and cat

only. But all animals are the same. We don't have any right to kill for us or rescued (pet) animals. My most memorable rescue is when we rescued 115 broiler hens from a farm. One vegan from Trivandrum informed me that they are going to sell these broiler hens, both hens and roosters, broiler babies. So she was planning to rescue these babies by paying money, but I opposed that. I told her that I will talk with that person. Initially, he asked for money, but I talked with him repeatedly and I cou

ld convince him to give all of them for free. I will talk with them in such a way that they see that the humans and animals are same. They have same feelings like us. They have same emotions, they have same pain like us. And I will tell them that if you spare these animals, because of you, these animals will get a new life. My message to everyone watching this video is leave all animal products, choose compassion, go vegan. They also deserve to live happily like us. (light-hearted music continue

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