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Jenny Brown didn’t let losing a leg hold her back from becoming a passionate advocate for animals
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-- -- everybody -- Julie Banderas and thank you very much for watching fox highlights where we bring you stories of inspiration.
Stories of encouragement and people doing.
Incredible things despite.
Limitations and many different cycles.
Of their lives including our next guest who is going to join us now to talk to us about an amazing story of inspiration.
This is a woman.
Who survived -- -- -- She -- an amazing childhood where she was given a cat after.
Jenny I want to welcome you and then we'll tell your story Jenny brown as a cancer survivor and coauthor of the lucky ones and I was reading a story and thought it was so amazing you you had a limb that was removed -- your child's.
22.
Cancer and you were given -- caps.
At that stage in your life difficult stage in your life -- that -- it seemed to transform your entire future.
And -- bring us back to that day when you got that -- and that relationship that brings you to where you are today.
Well I was -- -- little kid I am kinda lose I think that it is there.
Ten years old and underwent chemotherapy and lost -- hair and even after my education had to undergo chemotherapy for another year and a half.
And was you know just felt very alienated from.
My friends and school and a normal life but I was finally able my whole life I had wanted.
To adopt an animal if you have a -- And being able to play the cancer card allowed me to do that with my mother and so we adopted a little cat that we -- bogey I named -- bogey.
And when I wasn't at the hospital I had a tremendous amount of time at home and it was.
That time spent with her not allowed me to.
Start looking animals differently and realizing you know brought up and a southern Baptist how golden where we just.
We talked about only humans have all -- even in my young ten year old mind I started thinking when he got to -- because animals truly well.
And it would also a matter of feeling like I was out of control I wasn't making decisions on myself it was a very scary time.
And that we do that fatal to animals and that they're not control of their lives of their destiny and we moved them from.
One strange place to the other and take them away from their -- so that's really how it all beginners.
OK so then you began a sanctuary you left a promising television producing career you did a lot of work on on several different documentaries.
Including PBS's Frontline in the Discovery Channel you left the documentary -- and you moved to upstate new York and you opened up a sanctuary.
Where you are rescue wing.
Farm animals that are our miss treated and you.
Welcome the visitors there to teach them things about these farm animals that they would never know such as here you are with a pig pigs are is a Smart as a dog.
That chickens can potentially be as a -- if not more.
-- -- -- Talk about about what's your what your work is all about there.
Well Woodstock farm animal sanctuary at home to around 200 rescued -- animal -- are all animals but it comes from.
Abuse or neglect or abandonment.
And they've been given a second chance at life and here -- -- not treated as.
Commodities or as production unit so they -- an environment where -- -- and -- acted.
And treated with just -- -- compassion that most people get to their cats and dogs because when you really get to know them.
They're not any different and if so what we do here and -- charitable organization.
Comments during the summer time April through October were open to the public.
And -- and they -- happening -- would not so don't count it drove the oh tourism and -- we get hundreds of people through our doors on the weekend and we talked to them -- debate about.
-- -- -- -- And the treatment of animals and modern day animal agriculture.
And you know they're not abstractions here -- -- you know -- -- the days and we'll have the prairie where.
We.
I'll -- without water the family how to feed the family the winter.
We never see these animals so they're abstractions.
There.
And most of them 99%.
Of them Lyndon gargantuan actor in her.
And so -- good part of our mission to educate the public about.
The treatment of farm animals and then stay -- age and allow them to get up close and personal I I -- animal they've only when Jones.
-- -- -- -- And we're gonna get -- where you -- -- before you started this journey tell had a trip that you went it was sort of harrowing life changing experience for you in 2002.
Something you saw that -- sort of changed your entire.
Outlook on on animals the way they were treated and especially.
The way that that humans.
Have have accustomed themselves to depend on them at dinner time.
Right out of -- I would vegetarian full time I was eighteen I did some reading.
I you know -- Cabrera -- animal lover but.
No one day it dawned on me that there was huge variety of animals but I wasn't truly.
Including in that statement and I started looking into -- animals they're needed for medical experiment hateful content -- experimentation.
The misery -- on our armed and that you read -- -- -- circuit citizen or entertainment.
But also how we treat the animals -- And I had all grown up you know I think I'm -- -- -- without it wasn't like -- around or isn't there any farm animal.
But again I just always had this affinity for -- I'm barely -- it than just like children.
And they can be easily victimized.
And so it was.
This sort of well I had done some undercover video any early ninety's.
-- Fresh out of -- -- but it wasn't until 2000 and chill.
And I went undercover -- -- an undercover buy an animal at the organization.
And document Allen's annual.
Backyard -- -- and -- animal better.
You know week or big -- and they're non ambulatory.
And so how they're voted aren't -- to track they had the water.
Is the very worst and Stephen Curry and what I and that one week traveling from stockyards are darn -- I'm like -- Well the first thing I thought I was a whole load.
Neal Katz being unloaded from a dairy operation defense.
An order for people to drink milk.
Calgary and try to hit it every year and what your email -- email after cake and Kirk.
The -- lot of us know about the court of appeal but you know seeing them -- -- -- cord still attached.
So weak unable to stand and just taken a wait and her mother.
What what really I needed that these acts and so I've bounced off any and all animal products and they look at me I'm in my -- I looked pretty.
I'm good morning an adult you know and I.
I just thought I'd feel better my content and later it better for the environment that are better -- -- -- And that you know but most of all I just wanted to -- the gap between their animals that we know and love.
And a bit of hope that we choose not to think about which are the -- in the -- than the -- in the church yeah.
Jenny brown thank you very much for your story and we appreciate you coming on and for those who want to learn more.
I you can go to the web -- it's -- on your screen it's Woodstock sanctuary.
Dot work.
Thank you very much -- for joining us.
-- -- -- -- Thank you so much I have -- really -- -- --
