Lynn’s pet bull has a beef with burgers!
LYNN: My pet bull’s gotabeef withburgers JUANITA: That’s simply moo-dicrous
A VEGAN animal rights campaigner has rescued a bullock from a community farm – fearing it would be “distressed” by the smell of beefburgers and bacon sandwiches.
Two- year- old black and white bullock Prince was saved from going to slaughter by 47- year- old mother- of- one Lynn Jolly, who doesn’t eat or drink animal products.
And she reckons Prince will be upset by the smell of his “brothers and sisters” being turned into burgers at a new food stall on the farm where’s been grazing happily.
So Lynn has moved Prince 100 miles north, from Mossburn Community Farm near Lockerbie, to grazing land in Renfrewshire closer to where she lives.
“I didn’t want Prince to be distressed by the smell of his brothers and sisters cooking,” said Lynn.
“Animals do sense when this is happening, and that is fact.
“There would have been a moral conflict with what I’m trying to do, it would not have been ethical.”
But the farm’s founder, Juanita Wilson, said Lynn’s claims were “ludicrous”.
Ju an i t a , 70, who started Mossburn to provide help to abused, unwanted and neglected animals in 1987 and will receive an MBE next month for services to animals, said: “It’s an incredibly mad comment.
“It shows you what she knows about animals, where’s the evidence?”
But Lynn is outraged that a craft and product fair, including some meat producer stalls, is taking place at Mossburn today.
And she’s angry that a café selling meat is to be opened at the farm in coming weeks.
Although cows can become scared and stressed by unknown smells or situations, it is not widely believed they associate the smell of cooked meat with their own mortality.
Lynn is adamant Prince could be distressed by the smell of meat being cooked and her beliefs have been backed- up by animal lovers who have inundated the farm’s Facebook page with protests.
Karris McCulloch wrote: “Makes no sense, rescuing some animals, yet eating others. Absolutely astounded at the hypocrisy.”
While Laura Appleton posted “Speechless. It’s like going to hospital and finding they are serving up humans.” Berverly Smith added: “The hypocrisy would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic for the murdered animals you seek to serve up as food.”
Prince was two days away from being turned into veal before Lynn stepped in after she came across him while walking her dog last summer.
Eventually, the bemused farmer who owned Prince agreed to sell him to Lynn rather than sending him for slaughter,
And she found a temporary home for him at Mossburn among other rescued cows, pigs, goats and chickens in November.
Prince attracted hundreds of visitors and online followers.
But when Lynn, of Houston in Renfrewshire, found the centre was planning to hold a craft fair complete with burger stall she decided Prince had to be moved.
She has now launched a £200,000 crowd-funding campaign to create what she says would be Scotland’s first-ever vegan animal sanctuary.
So far, she has raised £ 4500 through the site. A stream of offers of help have come from, Canada, Germany, Norway and the US.
“People have no connection with animals they see and the meat they purchase in supermarkets or cafes. I want to change that,” she said.
“I hope Prince will live to 20 and get millions of followers and I’m confident we’ll reach our target very soon.”
Scottish SPCA Chief Superintendent Mike Flynn said: “We have not been made aware of any research that proves animals get distressed by the smell of cooking meat.”