Ninth Circuit Rules Audio, Visual Recording of Factory Farms is Protected by First Amendment

As Farm Sanctuary’s 2017 Adopt a Turkey Spokesperson, the “Gifted” star speaks out for the more than 46 million turkeys who are killed each year for Thanksgiving.

Farm Sanctuary’s New Humane Education Program Uses Virtual Reality Technology to Bring Farm Animals into New York and Philadelphia Metro Area Classrooms

In new video, Hollywood father-daughter duo chat about eating compassionately, whether or not animals have souls, and the only time a dad wants to hear his daughter say “there’s no sense in not going all the way”

In 1993, Farm Sanctuary began welcoming animals to our then-new Sanctuary location in Orland, California. Waylon was the 86th of 94 animals rescued that year.

In early March, we received a call about a couple of chickens roaming around a rest stop. Knowing how dangerous it is for chickens to be loose and unprotected, we immediately set out to see if we could locate them. After a long and thorough search of the area where they were spotted, we still hadn’t located the birds. We were close to giving up, fearing the worst, when we noticed a small, white ball of fluff in a dense patch of trees and brush.

In September our New York Shelter welcomed cows Tink, Peter, and Rufio; chickens Mary, Jo, Beth, and Amy; and duck Ping. The animals were skinny and crawling with parasites, and the birds were terrified.

Called to the scene of a neglect case in New York’s Hudson Valley last week, we walked onto a property that was essentially part garbage dump, part graveyard.

Bessie, Satchmo, and Bird spent the first four months of their lives in an aquarium on a third-floor apartment balcony in Los Angeles County.

Born into the farm-animal equivalent of a puppy mill, Avery had been taken from his mother, painfully castrated, and sold off as a pet before he was even five days old.