{"id":781171,"date":"2026-05-18T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=781171"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:48:20","slug":"cow-trip-new-documentary-of-baby-cow-saved-from-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=781171","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cow Trip&#8217;: New documentary of a baby cow saved from slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><em>Mickey the baby cow was given weeks to live &#8211; until this farmer&#8217;s girlfriend decided to save him. Nothing went as planned when a freshly-retired doctor and his filmmaker daughter set out to drive Mickey 600 miles to his new home. &#8220;Cow Trip&#8221; is a funny, heartfelt story about the people who will do anything to give one calf a real home.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>JOANNA ZELMAN:<\/strong> A calf in Vermont hits the lottery when a farmer decides to save him. But someone has to drive the baby cow 600 miles to his new home. A freshly retired doctor and his filmmaker daughter (Joanna Zelman) volunteer for the job, but nothing goes as planned. What emerges is an unlikely story of a community of people who will do anything to give one calf a real home&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Joanna Zelman is a Washington, DC-based filmmaker and writer who has spent her career telling stories about animals, climate, and social justice. She spent 10 years as Executive Producer of The Dodo, the world\u2019s #1 animal brand, where she helped grow the team to garner over 1 billion views per month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joannazelman.com\/cow-trip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HFlibYYrvuQ?si=LFnpMS00NzHOSUWY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey the baby cow was given weeks to live &#8211; until this farmer&#8217;s girlfriend decided to save him. Nothing went as planned when a freshly-retired doctor and his filmmaker daughter set out to drive Mickey 600 miles to his new home. &#8220;Cow Trip&#8221; is a funny, heartfelt story about the people who will do anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,21,23,25],"tags":[26,27,30,31,35,38],"class_list":["post-781171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-kisnship","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781177,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781171\/revisions\/781177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/781176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}