Comments on: Tender-hearted in Tehama County: a weekend at Farm Sanctuary

By: Hugo Schwyzer

Hugo Schwyzer — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:07:01 +0000

The place on the Farm was booked. Besides, we like, uh, something a bit more luxurious from time to time.

Someday, we’ll need to go visit Animal Acres, definitely…

Love the story.

By: Funt Of A Thousand Faces

Funt Of A Thousand Faces — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:22:16 +0000

Don’t they have a place on the actual farm for visitors to stay?

I haven’t been but I look forward to when I do get to go. I have been to Animal Acres which was started by Gene’s former wife and is closer to L.A.

BTW, when I was gathering signatures for this initiative I got a signature from this delightful older black woman who’d never really thought about this issue before but was totally down with it. I was saying to her that the point wasn’t so much about eating meat or not but rather about basic decent treatment of animals. And she replied with absolute conviction, ‘You better treat me right even if you gonna kill me’. I will use that line for the rest of my life(although I’m not sure it translates as well in print).

By: Hugo Schwyzer

Hugo Schwyzer — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:58:15 +0000

Lester, and Central California means many things. When I use it sometimes to describe my family home in Carmel, folks say “Oh, Central California means the valley — you ought to say ‘central coast’”. And I’ve heard folks as far south as Santa Barbara call themselves “central coast” residents. It’s all weird.

I know that for many state functions, the line between north and south is drawn at the San Luis Obispo/Monterey county border, and inland, the Kern/Kings county border(who knows what the hell they do with Inyo.)

By: Lester Hunt

Lester Hunt — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:42:55 +0000

When I was growing up in Stockton during the fifties, we would talk of Norther California, Southern California, and Central California. Like many useful distinction, it seems to have fallen into disuse.

By: Noumena

Noumena — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:29:48 +0000

Like most southlanders, I tend to refer to the Bay Area as “Northern” California when that region is, clearly, closer to the center.

The way I learned it, growing up near Tahoe: Northerners want San Francisco (false in general, but pretend), Southerners want LA, and no-one wants Bakersfield, so that’s where the boundary is. (With apologies to anyone who happens to live in Bakersfield!)

I’ll definitely lean heavily on my family to support this initiative. I’m the only vegetarian, but most of them generally like animals. It really shouldn’t (in theory) be too hard to convince them. Well, most of them.