Calvin Student Off to Farm Sanctuary Internship

July 20, 2006 == MEDIA ADVISORY

A Calvin junior and co-chair of the college's animal advocacy organization
Students for Compassionate Living (SCL) will soon depart for a summer
internship at the Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York.

Bethany Bertapelle, 21, a Calvin social work and political science major from
Midland, Michigan, will spend July 31 through September 1 at the sanctuary
doing basic animal care and learning about animal rights advocacy. The
organization rescues farm animals and educates about unjust animal husbandry
practices.

"I think she'll be an excellent representative of the Calvin community," says
Matt Halteman, the faculty liaison for SCL, which educates Calvin and the
wider community about animal advocacy issues. "Farm Sanctuary is on the
vanguard of these issues, and it is exciting that someone from our corner of
the universe will have the opportunity to see how it works from the inside."

Bertapelle is looking forward to the chores: feeding the animals, cleaning
the stalls and standing evening watches at the barns. Mainly, though she's
looking forward to the education Farm Sanctuary provides its interns.

"They have weekly meetings on how to start a farm sanctuary and about animal
advocacy and the history of the movement," she says. "I'm hoping to learn more
about how a sanctuary is run, including the educational methods. I've talked
to tons of different groups about their approaches to the advocacy
perspective. It's a big question."

For the full story see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2005_06/farm_sanctuary.htm

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Received on Thu Jul 20 11:13:02 2006