Nobody knows how long they stood inside the transport trailer, or what condition they were in when they entered. What we do know is how they looked when they emerged.

On February 24, Farm Sanctuary, Animal Place, and Harvest Home joined together to rescue hens at a factory farm in Modesto, CA, where 50,000 hens used for egg production had been abandoned and left to starve for two weeks.

Somewhere in California, a mother cow is mourning the loss of her newborn baby as a machine attached to her udders drains the milk that was to nourish him. And somewhere that baby is being auctioned for veal or some other sad end.

All of the baby turkeys were underweight and partially bald. Several were afflicted with enlarged joints and curled toes — signs of malnourishment.

One morning in November, staff at our New York Shelter arrived at the office to discover a number of large plastic containers near the door.

When this little piglet was rescued, he was suffering from a joint infection that followed a leg injury he received in the overcrowded conditions he lived in at a local farmer’s petting zoo and pumpkin patch.

Inspired by the local food movement and the novelty of do-it-yourself meat, a food writer in California bought a baby Hampshire pig.

The sight of five male dairy calves in a small dirt pen greeted Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter Field Services Manager Todd Stosuy and an accompanying veterinarian when they arrived at the property neighbors had reported.

The Elmira Six: Easter Ducklings Dumped, Then Rescued

She was lying just off the freeway, so small, thin and weary she could not raise her head.