Before sunrise one day in December, thieves sneaked into Anshu Pathak’s exotic meat farm in Riverside County and pulled off a singular heist.
Someone cut away a section of fence. The evidence, Pathak said, suggests that they backed a trailer into the gap and lured up to 30 llamas and 160 ostriches inside. Also, emus, lambs, goats, alpacas and geese.
Elizabeth Ovando of Redlands picks up a baby goat at the animal farm for Exotic Meat Market in Perris. Animal control officers say they’ve seen no signs of neglect at the farm after weeks of daily visits. Groups such as Direct Action Everywhere openly publicize their rescues, often livestreaming them on Facebook, and make no effort to conceal participants’ identities.
“There are well over a hundred animals. Geese, emus, donkeys, goats, alpacas, ostriches, dogs with no access to running water, dying and starving,” the post read. “In addition to needing trailers and volunteers, we will need a place to take some of the animals.”Pathak is reluctant to attribute blame to an animal rights organization; he thinks it’s more likely that the spotlight it turned on his operation attracted other, more criminally-minded opportunists.
Pathak says that any farm of a comparable size is bound to have livestock deaths, adding that male llamas and ostriches tend to fight with each other during breeding season and that his animals live with minimal human interference.But he strongly denies the allegations of neglect.
Anshu Pathak checks his phone as a curious ostrich peers. No one has claimed responsibility for the burglary on Pathak’s farm. But 10 days before the incident, the Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation put out a call for volunteers for a “mass rescue” in Riverside. About a week later, the Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation posted the video with a call for volunteers. The well-known animal rescue nonprofit counts celebrities as supporters and reported nearly $2.1 million in gross receipts on its 2017 federal tax return, the most recent year for which a filing was available.“Seven hundred and eighty-five shares,” Pathak said, shaking his head. “So how many people think I am a bad guy?”Then he made the unlikely transition to a carnivore, moved to the U.S.
“If those weeds are here and if there’s a fire, I don’t want my animals to get burned like Australia,” he said.
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