Recently, Farm Sanctuary National Shelter Director Susie Coston attended the New York City premiere of The Ghosts in Our Machine, a documentary that illuminates the lives of animals suffering within the global industries of food, fashion, entertainment, and research.

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.

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

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.

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.