Washingtonians for Humane Farms submitted language to the Secretary of State to place a statewide measure on November’s ballot.

Sirens, flashing lights and feelings of terror set the scene on an Indiana interstate early last month when a transport truck holding 34 cows collided into another vehicle and burst into flames.

When the Hillside SPCA in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania received a call about a situation of cruelty at a Pottsville farm, Humane Officer Denise Turkavage went to investigate. What she found was profoundly disturbing.

Andre, Albert and 18 other chickens once lived in misery at a high school in Canandaigua, New York.

Two large bi-coastal rescues carried out in December recently saw more than 200 layer hens once destined for slaughter to safe homes at Farm Sanctuary’s New York and California Shelters.

The small oval-shaped sticker had few things printed on it. A series of numbers. A date. And two bar codes.

Before Hurricane Katrina made landfall in late August 2005, businesses in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi were raising an estimated 635 million farm animals for food.

Thanks to the compassionate decision of one man and his wife, Punky and her friends are living the good life at Farm Sanctuary's New York Shelter.

Though every step pained him, Sprout seemed to know that each one also brought him closer to sanctuary.

In the fall of 2002, a caring citizen reported that he found a goat hanging dead in the fence of a Wisconsin farm.