“Turkeys are just as friendly, smart, and full of feeling as my dogs, and they deserve to be treated better” – Alec Baldwin

Comprehensive new guide empowers African Americans, who experience the highest rates of preventable, diet-related chronic diseases in the country, to take charge of their health

2016 Featured Animal Rescues

New Scientific White Paper Concludes that Pigs Are Behaviorally, Cognitively, and Emotionally Complex Individuals

Coalition of animal, environmental, and consumer protection organizations submit a joint comment to the USDA on its proposed rule to amend animal welfare requirements under the Certified Organic label

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to Hear Arguments on Ag-Gag Law

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.

Hand-raised as a 4-H project by a Pennsylvania dairy farmer’s grandchild, Faith was daily tended to by a young girl as a calf, primed to grow into a fertile and profitable adult dairy cow.