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'I couldn’t be a rancher and environmentalist without being a hypocrite. I needed to walk the walk'.
Renne and Richard – Photo credit: Rowdy Girl Sanctuary
A sixth-generation cattle rancher has broken a ‘100 year family
tradition’ after pledging to shift to plant-based farming.
Richard Traylor and his wife Cindy say they’re currently researching into
sustainable agriculture, with hopes to grow plant-based products such as
broccoli and radishes instead of raising cattle for slaughter.
The couple recently featured on the Rancher Advocacy Program’s live summit
created by Renne King-Sonnen – who went vegan and ‘decided she was unwilling
to participate in her husband multi-generational cattle business’.
Kin-Sonnen is now the founder of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary, which cares for cows
who have been spared from slaughter.
A ‘180-degree turn’
“I am so honored, humbled, and grateful that the Traylor’s have gone totally
vegan,” the sanctuary wrote on Facebook. “They made the 180-degree turn and
are doing the unthinkable – they’ve become vegan!
“They’ve ended the normalized violence of animal ag and are looking for new
and innovative ways to use their land.
“I remember sitting in their kitchen and hearing Richard say that he felt
like a murderer when he took his cows to the sale barn – that he knew
something wasn’t right but he was just doing what his family before him had
always done, and of course if you are going to keep your animal ag exemption
then you gotta farm animals or grow crops to feed them – it’s really messed
up.”
‘I needed to walk the walk’
Speaking about his decision to stop raising cattle, Richard told VegNews: “I
couldn’t be a rancher and environmentalist without being a hypocrite. I
needed to walk the walk.
“You’re killing the planet and killing yourself.”
You can learn more about the
Rancher
Advocacy Program HERE.
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