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A major part of Garden Harvest's fight against hunger & poverty is the provision of food-producing animals to the rural poor in Appalachia.

All animals support rural families that need to grow vegetables, fruit, or grains for their own nutrition or for income.  They do this by eliminating weeds and fertilizing the land.  In addition, certain animals perform specialized tasks: Chickens, for example, kill mice and eat insects that are destructive to crops.  Oxen pull the plow enabling the farmer to farm 10 times more than that he could using hand tools. Beyond that, a number of animals produce a steady supply of protein foods, such as milk and eggs, or fiber such as wool, which can be a source of income.

Garden Harvest nurtures all living beings.  As such, a major part of our work is teaching  people the world over how to employ animals to produce food in ways that are good for everyone: The Earth, the people, and the animals.

 Every donated animal is placed with a family that has an environment best suited for the specific animal's needs and abilities, an environment where it can thrive & be most productive.   Garden Harvest provides only those animals that themselves produce food, either directly as in milk & eggs,  or indirectly as in oxen that clear land & pull plows so that crops can be grown.  People are trained to first recognize and then maximize the contributions these animals continuously make to the production of food for their families.  Hence, people are shown how to make it economically beneficial to let the animals live out their natural lives, euthenizing them only when they start to decline. 

We acknowledge that there are times when taking an animal's life becomes necessary, either due to old age, a physical defect, uncontrollable aggression, or simply an overabundance of males.  The proper thing to do in that case is for the family to eat the meat of the animal or give it to a needy family to eat.  While slaughtering eventually becomes necessary, animals are not raised for the primary purpose of being slaughtered.

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