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Good news for teachers!

Watkins Glen -January 22 , 2002 - Farm Sanctuary's Cultivating Compassion program makes it even easier for caring teachers to bring compassion to their classrooms. In an increasingly violent world in which making profits often takes precedence over seeking peace, Farm Sanctuary's Cultivating Compassion program offers materials designed to encourage respect and kindness toward all living beings and the environment. Farm Sanctuary is pleased to provide these resources FREE to teachers.

Cultivating Compassion: Teachers' Guide and Student Activities
Guides offers lesson plans, hand-outs, and activities for teaching that farmed animals have feelings, too. Elementary (grades 3-5), Intermediate (grades 6-8), and Secondary (grades 9-12) Levels available.

My Friends at the Farm
Narrated by Casey Affleck, this video provides an introduction into the realities of factory farming for children in elementary school. Designed for grades 3-8.

Life Behind Bars
Narrated by Mary Tyler Moore, this documentary compares a natural, humane life of farm animals with the cruel methods currently used on factory farms. Suitable for high school and college levels.

Bring Cultivating Compassion Into Your Classroom
Change the future for farm animals by bringing Cultivating Compassion into your classroom. Farm Sanctuary offers humane education presentations to New York City area schools.

Farm Animal Sponsorship Program for the Classroom
Cultivate respect for all animals by participating in a Classroom Sponsorship through our Adopt-A-Farm Animal Project.

Promote compassion with literature and books for kids, available from Farm Sanctuary.

Explore the world of vegetarian resources for kids at VegforLife.org.

If, as Margaret Mead said, a small group of concerned individuals can change the world, just imagine what a lot of caring children could do!

Help support Farm Sanctuary's humane education efforts and sponsor Cultivating Compassion lessons and free guides and videos for the classroom.

About Farm Sanctuary
Farm Sanctuary is the nation's leading farm animal protection organization. Since incorporating in 1986, Farm Sanctuary has worked to expose and stop cruel practices of the "food animal" industry through research and investigations, legal and institutional reforms, public awareness projects, youth education, and direct rescue and refuge efforts. Farm Sanctuary shelters in Watkins Glen, N.Y., and Orland, Calif., provide lifelong care for hundreds of rescued animals, who have become ambassadors for farm animals everywhere by educating visitors about the realities of factory farming. Additional information can be found at www.farmsanctuary.org or by calling 607-583-2225.