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.

Neglect literally brought Patrick to his knees. Barely able to bear weight on his deformed hooves and contorted legs, he was forced to crawl. At only a year old, he moved like an elderly goat with arthritis.

At the small dairy farm where Michael was born, the arrival of male calves is quickly followed by the arrival of a man with a truck.

The man who raised Marge abandoned her. He drove away with two of her piglets and left her in a small, squalid pen to die.

The turkey meat business keeps its operations hidden behind a series of unobtrusive facades.

When the staff of a Future Farmers of America (FFA) farm in Santa Clara, California, came to work one morning this fall, they found two sheep awaiting them.

Not all turkeys are raised for human consumption. Some become snake food.