When animals need you, you answer the call.

On Tuesday, Farm Sanctuary President and Co-founder Gene Baur joined over a hundred animal activists for a nearly-day-long New York City Council hearing over Intro 1378, legislation that would prohibit the sale of foie gras in NYC.

For many East Asians, the Year of the Pig, which lasts from February 2019 through February 2020, is particularly auspicious.

It was around Valentine’s Day when we got the call to help a calf with a broken heart.

Earth Day started in 1970 in response to growing awareness and anxiety about the negative environmental impacts of human activities on the planet.

In the waning hours of 2018, sightings of a mysterious “cow in the woods” began to be reported in the town of New Britain, Conn. (or, as New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart soon dubbed it in a memorable hashtag, #MooBritain).

In the midst of a treacherous ice storm, Farm Sanctuary got a call that stopped us in our tracks: four shorthorn-breed calves were fighting for their lives on a Pennsylvania dairy farm about three hours away from our New York Shelter — and time was running out.

For the animal residents of Farm Sanctuary, love is everything.

There was great celebration at Farm Sanctuary this week as the United States Supreme Court denied a challenge by the foie gras industry and enabled California’s foie gras ban to go back into effect.

The putter of a tiny outboard motor echoes out over an eerie stillness.