A day after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor—and subsequently making a headlining acceptance speech in which he spoke to the plight of mother cows and their babies used in animal agriculture—Joaquin Phoenix helped to liberate a cow and her newborn calf from a Los Angeles slaughterhouse and bring them to Farm Sanctuary.

Mirroring his Oscars acceptance speech in which he spoke to the plight of mother cows and their babies, Phoenix helps to liberate a cow and her newborn calf from a Los Angeles slaughterhouse and bring them to Farm Sanctuary

When it comes to love, sometimes opposites really do attract.

Eleven days. It had been eleven days since strangers mosied into the yard, netted Pete, and whisked her away.

Our rescued residents have a lot of heart. Before coming to Farm Sanctuary, these animals faced the very worst of humanity.

Rita was just a few months old when an accident claimed part of her foot—and very nearly, her life.

According to market research company NPD Group, 12 percent of millennials (ages 23-38) identify as vegan or vegetarian, along with 11 percent of baby boomers, comprising perhaps one of the largest population blocks of herbivores since the Paleolithic era.

Most farm animals never get to know their families. In today’s animal agricultural systems, farmers instead profit on keeping them apart.

Farm Sanctuary’s biggest “bachelor herd” has a new leading lady!

At Farm Sanctuary, Thanksgiving is a celebration FOR the turkeys.