Rescue Stories

Early in the morning of September 5th, 17 Farm Sanctuary staff members and volunteers waited anxiously at Elmira Corning Regional Airport for a cargo plane to land.

In the traditional practice of Kapparot, observed in conjunction with Yom Kippur, a participant holds a chicken by the wings or the legs and circles the bird nine times above his head as he recites a prayer.

On October 16, Gothamist, a popular New York City news blog, published a headline declaring, “Activist Rescues Sheep From Brooklyn Butcher, But It’s The Wrong Sheep.”

When Abigail arrived at the Baldwin Park Animal Control shelter, she was in terrible health.

Autumn couldn’t move his legs. He couldn’t even open his mouth. But he could still scream.

Cruelty to farm animals is not only rampant on factory farms, it can be found anywhere that animals are viewed as mere commodities.

Farm Sanctuary President and Co-founder Gene Baur found Safran in a pen with other calves at a dairy farm on the day the little calf was born.

Every year, young 4-H participants across the country travel to state and county fairs to show the farm animals they have raised and cared for over the preceding months.

With the skyrocketing popularity of the backyard chicken coops, more people are raising chickens for meat at home — some as a hobby and others, with good intentions, hoping to circumvent the ills of the factory farm system.

A calf enters the world in an incredibly vulnerable state.