Rescue Stories

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.

When animals are raised for profit, the bottom line is often more important than their health.

When park rangers found Winston, he was wandering alone down College Point Boulevard in Queens, New York. Farm animal sightings are more common in Queens than you might expect. Every year hundreds of animals are shipped to the area’s live markets.

New York City is known for culture more than agriculture, but countless farm animals come into the city every day.

For most jungle fowl, as for most other animals exploited for human entertainment or consumption, life is nasty, brutish, and short.

Demeter, named after the Greek goddess of agriculture, was found in a setting befitting a divine creature: near the Greek antiquities and Roman gardens of Malibu’s Getty Villa.

While walking home with a friend, Manuel, a 9-year-old boy, saw some adults dumping a bag of goslings into a yard for a dog to eat — and the dog was quickly devouring them!

Every year, businesses across the country cash in on Easter by selling baby rabbits, chicks, and ducklings as novelties.