In the traditional practice of Kapparot, observed in conjunction with Yom Kippur, a participant holds a chicken by the wings or the legs and circles the bird nine times above his head as he recites a prayer.

On October 16, Gothamist, a popular New York City news blog, published a headline declaring, “Activist Rescues Sheep From Brooklyn Butcher, But It’s The Wrong Sheep.”

Farm Sanctuary President and Co-founder Gene Baur found Safran in a pen with other calves at a dairy farm on the day the little calf was born.

With the skyrocketing popularity of the backyard chicken coops, more people are raising chickens for meat at home — some as a hobby and others, with good intentions, hoping to circumvent the ills of the factory farm system.

A calf enters the world in an incredibly vulnerable state.

When park rangers found Winston, he was wandering alone down College Point Boulevard in Queens, New York. Farm animal sightings are more common in Queens than you might expect. Every year hundreds of animals are shipped to the area’s live markets.

New York City is known for culture more than agriculture, but countless farm animals come into the city every day.

Demeter, named after the Greek goddess of agriculture, was found in a setting befitting a divine creature: near the Greek antiquities and Roman gardens of Malibu’s Getty Villa.

Farm Sanctuary announces a call for grant proposals on observational research on farm animal emotions, behavior, and cognitive abilities.

In early 2013, our New York Shelter took in 23 baby turkeys who had fallen out of a transport truck in North Carolina.