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.

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.

Food Safety and Inspection Service Labeling Guideline on Documentation Needed to Substantiate Animal Raising Claims for Label Submission; Docket ID: FSIS-2016-0021

Just like their namesake Stevie Wonder/Paul McCartney song “Ebony and Ivory,” this bovine mother and son will now remain “side by side” for 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.

Going vegan and healthy in your décor is a process and takes time. But educating ourselves, waking up to the atrocities that can so easily be hidden within a home, is the first step towards a kinder, more compassionate, purer world.

Meet Marco Borges, the trainer and nutritionist who got Beyoncé and Jay-Z hooked on a plant-based diet.