The Art of Living
In Hog Haven
Gandhi said
you can
measure the
civilization of a
people by how
they treat their
animals. If you
look back on our
factory farms,
it doesn’t reflect
well on us.”
—Allan Kornberg
EVEN IN med school,
Allan Kornberg was
troubled by the use of
dogs in research labs. As a
pediatrician, he refused to
use kittens to teach intubation at the Children’s
Hospital of Buffalo. Now
he’s pursuing his passion
for animals full-time,
as executive director
of Farm Sanctuary, an
organization that rescues
farm animals from abuse
and slaughterhouses.
Some 1,000 pigs, cows,
goats, turkeys, and chickens live on the sanctuary’s
475 acres in Watkins Glen,
New York, and Orland,
California. “Farm animals
are sentient beings, but
they’re treated as production units,” says Kornberg,
56, a longtime vegan.
“They’re individuals, like
your dog or your cat.”
—Margot Dougherty
