To many, a small backyard chicken flock conveys the image of an idyllic urban homestead — the very antithesis of the factory egg farm. But for nearly all backyard hens, life begins the same way it does for factory farmed birds, and it often ends much the same way as well.

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A trail of blood marked the path from the rescuer’s car to our Melrose Small Animal Hospital.

As Farm Sanctuary rescue workers entered the western New York property where Lila and dozens of others languished, they were nearly overwhelmed by the smell of death.

Just a few days before July 4th, Farm Sanctuary’s Emergency Rescue Team arrived at a factory pig farm where we were alerted to the flagrant abuse of a pregnant breeding sow.

Annual summer celebration brings activism, animals, vegan food & fun together Aug. 4 and 5 in the Finger Lakes region of New York

Farm Sanctuary applauds lawmakers for making Rhode Island the ninth state to pass farm animal protection legislation

When he was just two weeks old, Harold was abandoned at a stockyard in New York.

When Olivia arrived at our New York Shelter, half her face was missing. While swimming in a pond on the property of her caregivers, she had been attacked by a snapping turtle, who tore into one side of her head, taking out the sinus, the eye and part of the skull.

An individual inquired about adopting young Norman from Livingston Animal Control.