VEGAN Journal of a RANCHERS WIFE

07/03/2024

Remembering Cecil.

I’ve always held my heart and the door open for animals, from the smallest critter to the very wild and free. At a very young age, I developed a fascination with how those in the wild exist. As a young girl, I remember watching Wild Kingdom for hours upon hours with my father. Watching the […]

06/19/2024

Sharing this important short video. Please watch and share.

EXPLOITED! The Myth of the Happy Cow is a short video (not graphic) inspired by the original song, Happy Cow, which depicts the plight of a dairy cow's life....

04/16/2024

Rowdy Girl Film is in Vogue - I can hardly take that in! But there it is - scroll down to the bottom and there we are along with the trailer of the documentary!

The spring and summer seasons promise a hodgepodge of insightful, scandalous, activist, or unmistakably bizarre nonfiction films. Here’s Vogue’s quick guide.

04/01/2024

PLEASE SIGN

To make peace in the Middle East.

04/01/2024

Happy Vegan Easter. So blessed.

02/24/2024

There’s no right way to do the wrong thing! As a child we would never think this is normal- we teach kids to normalize violence in order to perpetuate animal ag as king.

02/20/2024

Mothers should be honored regardless of species. Babies should be cherished regardless of species. is the reason we eat and torture mommas and babies—the only reason.

Speciesism-

Richard Ryder, who coined the term, defined it as "a prejudice or attitude of bias in favour of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species."[7] Speciesism results in the belief that humans have the right to use non-human animals, which scholars say is pervasive in the modern society.[8][9][10] Studies from 2015 and 2019 suggest that people who support animal exploitation also tend to endorse racist, sexist, and other prejudicial views, which furthers the beliefs in human supremacy and group dominance to justify systems of inequality and oppression.

01/19/2024

Tommy is my idea of a good man. Loves his cats and loves his vegan cheese (check out his hat). I am so blessed to have found a husband who will love and support me through all manner of challenges - addiction, trauma and my life-altering vegan awakening. That last challenge could have been the end of us - almost was. But Tommy, in his calm, steadfast way, said yes to co-evolving with me. He could have dug in his heels and stuck with what was familiar but he chose to grow and I am so very thankful he did. I can’t imagine this journey without him.

There is this false cultural narrative that vegan men are less manly. I can’t stand this idea. Why do we think paying for a docile animal to be abused, tortured and killed is manly? The truly brave thing to do is stand up for what’s right even in the face of great counter-pressure. I love my vegan husband - loved him before he was vegan and love him after. Let’s stop this silly idea that eating a piece of a cow’s body makes you manly. It’s propaganda plain and simple.

Rowdy Girl Sanctuary is committed to truth telling! We are former cattle ranchers who discovered the lies of animal agriculture and converted to a vegan farm animal sanctuary. We are determined to keep spreading the message that the way forward is vegan. Doesn’t matter how you feel about the word “vegan” what matters is the principles behind it. Love, compassion, fairness, conservation and just good old fashioned sense!

Join our Rowdy Club at https://buff.ly/48Okker and to gain access to our upcoming complimentary cookbook full of our favorite plant-based recipes! 🔗🧁🥕

12/30/2023

Help us raise $150,000 by Dec 31.

12/11/2023

What an honor to be included in the Million Vegan Grandmothers podcast - thank you Tami Hay and Sailesh Rao for your tireless work for the animals!

This story will inspire you to the core.....Renee King-Sonnen, Rowdy Girl Sanctuary's Founder and Exec. Director has been at the forefront of Animal Rights A...

12/01/2023

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11/02/2023

From my friend Kip Andersen! I donated and am sharing to all my platform ! Will you?
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Hey Kip Andersen here, co-creator of the documentaries Cowspiracy, Seaspiracy, and What the Health. I want you to know….

I’ve got a new documentary that will ROCK the vegan (and non-vegan) world!

Christspiracy: The Spirituality Secret is a groundbreaking investigative documentary that unearths the biggest religious cover-up in the last 2,000 years. One that will change the way you see religion, animals, and the connection between the two—forever.

BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP!

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Religion. Animals. A 2,000-year cover-up.

10/26/2023

San Francisco ! 🔔 who’s coming to see the Rowdy Girl Film on Sunday Oct 29?

Get your tickets https://roxie.com/film/rowdy-girl

10/15/2023

dear beloveds - i write this with tears in my heart.
for 33 years, deva and i have travelled the world, sharing the blessings of mantra and sacred chant, in temples, synagogues, ashrams, festivals, meditation rooms, theaters and rock stadiums...
but we have seen, now, that every song, every mantra, every voice, was nothing more than a tear in the vast ocean of human madness.
but i am not giving up.

we have a new song: who am i now.
who am i now, after yet another war?
how many wars?
how long must humanity go on like this?
what mantra will quell the tide of male violence?

after so much bloodshed ... of seeing the terrible plight of womenfolk, and their children, and the young men...in such terrible agony and fear and so lost in separation...who are we now?

what is the answer?
is there an answer?
we have heard the speeches.
we have heard the theories...
we have listened to our latest media guru’s, media 'influencers…’

and what are we left with?
who are we now?
more confusion than ever.
more separation than ever.
more conflicting opinions to separate us from our friends and families.

i have stepped back in an attempt to answer my own question - who am i now.

i can honestly say, i don't know.
the only spark of light i see is when i sit with myself, going fearlessly, deeper into my own being...where i have discovered a place free of the endless chatter of the mind - it is a place where i don't exist as a person...so no government can touch me there…no religion can persuade me there.
it is a place where the madness dissolves into the periphery of my experience.
and inside - using the mantras as avatars...if i am diligent and attentive, i can experience a place of deep safety - deep peace.
i am safe.
in that sacred realm, 'i' am home.

and i give thanks, once again, for these sacred sounds - happening in plain sight - that so many of us have experienced as light bearers, and spirit guides...that lead us gently and fiercely, into our inner sanctuary.
i pray for peace on earth, but, sadly, i feel it is an empty plea.

humanity has existed for millions of years and yet we still continue to resolve our conflicts with aggression and violence.
how much longer must humanity fight and struggle with itself.?
what hope can there possibly be?

but wait.
there is something pure within reach.
it is the state of hopefulness.
i urge you all to meet your friends and family in a state of hopefulness.

meet everyone, as you go through your day-to-day chores, in a state of hopefulness.

our sangha is a gathering of gratitude, forgiveness, and compassion.
these qualities contain intrinsically within them, the powerful state of hopefulness.

and please don't give up.
no matter if world war three is upon us.
even if the madness escalates even further...keep giving thanks and keep singing - keep chanting your prayers.
don’t get lost in separation
and continue to sing your prayers that will lead humanity home to where we belong - in peace within our safe and sacred sanctuary.

with love and every blessing, from us both,
namaste
miten

10/14/2023

Our story was featured in the prestigious !

We are so thrilled that our awakening on a Texas Cattle Ranch is getting mainstream attention!

Bon Appetit has 7 million unique viewers on their online platform! Y’all share everywhere- let’s turn it up for the animals!

My greatest desire is for people to see, hear and feel the impact of our story so that they live our awakening in such a way that it inspires change in them too!

Let’s keep on keeping on 📖 Read the Story by going to the 🔗 in our bio! 📖 ❤️and join the Rowdy Club ❤️ if you haven’t already so we can keep advancing confidently into the world for animal liberation! Your participation means everything to us!

Our legacy is and we want to be here for future generations!

🐄🐄🐄Join the herd🐄🐄🐄

In the heart of Texan cattle country, Renee King-Sonnen and Tommy Sonnen turned their ranch into an animal sanctuary. It changed everything for them.

10/01/2023

When I think back on my pre vegan days I remember explicitly how disconnected I was to food. I thought I was connected. I did yoga, meditated, was a spiritual girl that believed in God, Jesus and all things holy; yet my consciousness was sealed shut when it came to being able to see “who” I was eating.

It took me having a spiritual awakening on a cattle ranch to finally be able to break through the generations of conditioning that had literally been shoved down my throat, one broken and bloody body at a time.

Our story is immensely complicated and difficult to comprehend for many but I’m here to tell you—that what’s on the other side of animal agriculture is darker than any imaginable hell you might imagine.

When I went vegan on Oct 31, 2014 it was as if a whole other world existed in parallel with my programming. The other world was always vegan. I now see that I was taught to fit into the program of animal ag. It is the ultimate wolf in sheep’s clothing. Why couldn’t I see that eating babies, eating suffering, eating death warmed over was wrong?

“Nothing tastes as good as vegan feels yall!”

As I approach my 9 year Veganniversary I’m so grateful to be living my best life as an ethical vegan! There’s no way to really explain it other than to call it a spiritual awakening. One day I was living on a cattle ranch where everyone living there was bought and sold to become chopped up bodies in a package; and the next day when I woke up I was walking through paradise—where everyone I used to love to eat was my family.

Living in parallel universes where slaughter houses exist to murder an estimated *92.2 Billion land animals annually in the global food system* is staggering. There’s a vegan world inside all of us. I pray anyone reading this will wake up on the other side of the bed and hug a cow today.

*According to the Food and Agriculture Organization.*

Love,
Renee

P.S. the single biggest thing you can do today to take action is to *Become a Member* and join the *Rowdy Club* ❤️We 🫶 our Members ❤️

www.rowdygirlsanctuary.org/membership

08/31/2023

It’s official Rowdy Girl Film makes its U.S. debut

We are beyond thrilled to announce the US premiere of ROWDY GIRL at the prestigious Hamptons International Film Festival!
If that wasn't exciting enough, we'll be featured in their signature program "Compassion, Justice, & Animal Rights" alongside such historic films such as Oscar Nominee Virunga: The Movie, Cow, The Cat Rescuers, Earth: One Amazing Day and EO.
🎬Ticket packages for the fest will be available in early September with individual ticket sales mid-month. As soon as screening times for ROWDY GIRL are available, we will let you know.
Check! Back! Here!
🌱For more information, link in bio.

Many thanks to our collaborators: Moby, The Bindery, and of course Renee King-Sonnen of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary

08/22/2023

If you can help please do! This drought is deadly and we are in need of extra resources to feed the herd. www.rowdygirlsanctuary.org/donate

08/20/2023

One of our amazing rescue stores. Learn more at www.rowdygirlsanctuary. Org

07/23/2023

How I wish humanity would create a worldwide ethical vegan network to restore balance to our planet! I wish our vegsn movement could move this mountain without being so completely overwhelmed by infighting and controversy. We need to come together now more than ever to save our precious planet and all her inhabitants. Who’s with me? Can we do it?

Love, Reneé