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Woodstock Farm Sanctuary is advocating for the end of the “Dairy Cow Birthing Center” at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, NY. We are asking for signers to show public support for ending this exploitative exhibition and seek to have 20,000 signees to make a difference. 

Every year at the New York State Fair, heavily pregnant cows are transported from dairy farms across the State to give birth in an exhibition called the “Birthing Center.” Below is footage from the 2022 Dairy Cow Birthing Center recorded by our staff. 

In 2022, Woodstock Sanctuary launched a national coalition of farmed animal sanctuaries across United States doing general agricultural fair advocacy and specific campaigns intended to educate the public, encourage boycotts of state and county fairs, and stop some harmful practices. As a coalition of sanctuaries, we have decades of intensive hands-on farmed animal care experience and rescue animals directly from animal farming including dairy farms. 

The Birthing Center's purpose is to present dairy farming in a positive light and provide palatable explanations for common practices in the dairy industry, such as the separation of moms and babies, the discarding of baby boys, forced impregnation, and confinement of cows.  

The New York Animal Agriculture Coalition has run the Dairy Cow Birthing Center for the past ten years. It is sponsored by large industry groups such as the Dairy Farmers of America, New York Beef Producers Association, and Cargill. The State Fair is subsidized by New York State tax payers.

We are asking you to add your name to this petition so we can show the public demand to stop the Birthing Center exhibition at the New York State Fair. Help us make 2024 the last year that this harmful and exploitative practice happens. 

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