Wagner Farm Rescue Fund Animal Prints

Community Gardening: An Opportunity for Collaboration Between Wagner Farm and Wagner Farm Rescue Fund

2011-12-29T12:05:00.005-06:00

In the December 24th edition of the Wagner Farm Rescue Fund Animal Prints, we noted that Wagner Farm Rescue Fund is part of the Glenview (IL) community and would like to be able to praise, rather than have to condemn, Wagner Farm programs.

While the supporters of our non-profit organization have the right and need to be informed of news related in any manner to Wagner Farm Rescue Fund, the community of Glenview, and our animal protection mission, and while inhumane programming too often causes the need for confrontation, it is preferable to Wagner Farm Rescue Fund to instead be collaborative and publicize news of a positive nature.

Just a week later we are able to do this in regard to a newspaper story containing information about the new expanded community gardening program at Wagner Farm.

While this gardening program does not address the animal welfare issues and programming at Wagner Farm that Wagner Farm Rescue Fund has been concerned with over the past ten years, the addition of a community interactive program that does not suggest any conflict with animal welfare concerns is an example of the kind of positive, humane programming that Wagner Farm Rescue Fund has been referring to and needs to be encouraged.

It has been publicized that beginning with the Spring 2012 season, residents will be able to rent garden plots at Wagner Farm by the season and will make their own growing selections. An additional publicized bonus is that the gardens will be organic.

While the mission of Wagner Farm Rescue Fund does not specifically include issues of gardening per se, such an endeavor as that of a community garden does reflect the Wagner Farm Rescue Fund mission in terms of the need for humane programs to be the kind that are developed and implemented at Wagner Farm. A community garden is such an example of humane programming.

Wagner Farm Rescue Fund has also previously and ongoing publicized its desire for collaborative and cooperative efforts between itself and Wagner Farm, as that has been the intent since the inception of Wagner Farm Rescue Fund. The protection by Wagner Farm Rescue Fund of the animals associated with Wagner Farm and a positive relationship between Wagner Farm Rescue Fund and Wagner Farm not only does not have to be mutually exclusive, but should not be and should instead be a joint effort as well.

This is also an example that it takes a spirit of cooperation between all parties involved for there to be a collaborative outcome.

The new community garden and opportunity for related programs in terms of humane food production and donation is an opportunity for Wagner Farm to take a step toward collaboration with us and work with Wagner Farm Rescue Fund on a joint program in relation to the community garden.

Therefore, this suggestion by Wagner Farm Rescue Fund for a collaborative, cooperative effort is now publicly extended to Wagner Farm, and Wagner Farm has the opportunity to respond to us in kind and have this be a positive step in another kind of positive community interaction besides the garden - that of one jointly and ongoing between Wagner Farm Rescue Fund and Wagner Farm, in a continuation of positive news and humane programs.

Information on the community garden can be found at:

http://www.glenviewlantern.com/Articles-News-c-2011-12-26-233873.114133-Community-garden-coming-to-Wagner-Farm.html

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Wagner Farm Rescue Fund is the sister organization of Have A Heart Farm

www.wagnerfarmrescuefund.org

www.haveaheartfarm.org

Wagner Farm Rescue Fund: 10 Years of Addressing Animal Welfare Issues at Wagner Farm In Glenview, IL

2011-12-24T17:15:00.000-06:00

It was ten years ago this month that the initial animal protection work began regarding the animal welfare issues at the tax payer purchased and supported Wagner Farm in Glenview, IL, which led to the founding of the non-profit Wagner Farm Rescue Fund.

Wagner Farm Rescue Fund thanks our many supporters for their ongoing support of our animal protection efforts over these past ten years, and for your continuing support and help in our ever-growing organization.

Wagner Farm Rescue Fund continues to work vigorously toward humane programming at Wagner Farm which we hope will include a spirit of cooperation and collaboration toward that goal being implemented by Wagner Farm and Glenview Park District management whose positions include the responsibility of overseeing the operation of Wagner Farm.

At a time in our country when economic challenges for many are rampant, an in-depth look by the local Journal & Topics newspaper chain demonstrates that Glenview municipal management personnel, including those of the Glenview Park District which manages Wagner Farm, are handsomely paid through both salaries and job perks by tax payer funds, and it is therefore a certain obligation of these personnel to the tax payers to ensure the optimal, humane functioning of tax payer purchased and supported facilities.

This optimal functioning includes responsibility to all tax payers, not just to tax payers whose views they share, and the basic obligation to ensure that no programs contain any components of cruelty, such as the Wagner Farm/Glenview Clovers 4H children's program that includes the purchase of baby animals each year with the express purpose of selling these animals to slaughter. Humane options presented by Wagner Farm Rescue Fund to Wagner Farm have been ignored in their entirety without any collaborative discussion.

It is a basic obligation of tax payer paid representatives to discuss and consider these options with those presenting them, especially when the issues represented have already been publicly noted to be of concern over the course of many years, and those presenting these options are Glenview tax payers themselves.

Not only would these options that were available have been more profitable to Wagner Farm monetarily, but would have also have been more profitable in terms of favorable publicity of a tax payer purchased and supported facility rather than the negative publicity that is an unfortunate consequence of such extensive inhumane programming.

Additionally, many of the basic elements of these programs can still be maintained, including the education and entertainment of children, and certainly without the animal exploitation and cruel outcomes that have become basic components of much of the current Wagner Farm programming. Cows do not need to be forcibly impregnated, only to have their calves separated from them upon birth. This is a standard operating procedure that is a cruel component of the profit-seeking dairy industry. It does not need to be a cruelty-fostering component of a tax payer purchased and supported facility.

Wagner Farm has the ability to be a true gem of Glenview. Presently, this gem - and therefore the entire community of Glenview - does not shine as brightly as it could due to its reputation being increasingly tarnished by the negative publicity that is an unfortunate but natural and needed consequence of the inhumane programming of a public facility, programming that is the catalyst for many cruel animal deaths each year when these animals are sold to slaughter.

Humaneness in all programming can - and must - become a priority at the tax payer purchased and supported Wagner Farm, as must be a willing spirit of cooperation and collaboration toward such humane programming between all parties concerned.

Wagner Farm Rescue Fund is a member of the Glenview community. We would like our voice to be able to be one of praise, not the current necessary condemnation, of Wagner Farm programming.
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The mission of Wagner Farm Rescue Fund includes the protection of any and all animals associated in any capacity with Wagner Farm, regardless of any details in regard to who owns the animal(s) individually, such as the Wagner Farm / Glenview Clovers 4H group. Any animal that is used in conjunction with any Wagner Farm programs is essentially a Wagner Farm animal and is covered by the Wagner Farm Rescue Fund mission.

Wagner Farm Rescue Fund links:

www.wagnerfarmrescuefund.org

www.eyeonwagnerfarm.com

Journal & Topics newspaper links:

http://www.journal-topics.com/news/glenview/article_8daa5e98-1ba0-11e1-a6ae-001a4bcf6878.html

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www.journal-topics.com/opinion/article_913c5e1c-2618-11e1-ac91-001a4bcf6878.html

Wagner Farm Rescue Fund is the sister organization of Have A Heart Farm:

www.haveaheartfarm.org
www.haveaheartfarm.blogspot.com

Wagner Farm Rescue Fund Animal Prints..Coming Soon!

2011-12-01T14:46:00.000-06:00

Please see Eye on Wagner Farm and Wagner Farm Rescue Fund for information about the animal welfare issues regarding the tax payer purchased and supported Wagner Farm in Glenview, IL

www.EyeOnWagnerFarm.com
www.WagnerFarmRescueFund.org
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The Wagner Farm Rescue Fund Animal Prints blog will be replacing the professional newspaper column that Wagner Farm Rescue Fund / Have A Heart Farm founder Debby Rubenstein wrote for seven years between 2003 and 2010. Writing in this format will provide not only the opportunity for a larger following, but will also provide the opportunity to publish more comprehensive animal welfare and rescue information, and on a more timely basis. The Animal Prints will provide ongoing information about the animal welfare issues at the tax payer purchased and supported Wagner Farm in Glenview, IL.

The Wagner Farm Rescue Fund Animal Prints will be written in conjunction with the blog of our sister organization, Have A Heart Farm, which is the Have A Heart Farm Heart-Beat.

The Have A Heart Farm Heart-Beat will keep readers up to date on news regarding our Have A Heart Farm multi-species animal rescue and community services sanctuary plans.

Please watch for our upcoming editions!

Wagner Farm Rescue Fund and Have A Heart Farm

www.wagnerfarmrescuefund.org
www.haveaheartfarm.org