American Values Shine at This Festive Annual Event Reflecting the Greatness of a Nation

Of all the tiny piglets in a crowded pen at a busy New York stockyard, Riley was the smallest and was visibly suffering from multiple ailments.

It’s not often that you see anything too unusual while driving on a boring, busy highway, but every once in a while something will happen on a daily commute that cuts through the malaise and gives you pause.

After touring with her boyfriend’s band, Lanore Hahn was anticipating a relatively uneventful return journey back to her house in Wisconsin when fate intervened in the form of a tiny piglet now named Kim Gordon.

One winter day, a Red Bluff, California couple came home to a 20-pound pink surprise: a lone piglet was grazing contentedly in their yard.

Lucas started life in 2006 at the petting zoo of a summer day camp in Los Angeles, but even though this sweet pig got lots of attention from adoring kids, he was suffering from severe neglect.

It’s a bird … it’s a plane … no … it’s Fiona: the newest piglet at our New York Shelter!

Since 1986, Farm Sanctuary has performed hundreds of rescues. During the summer of 2008, we faced one of our most daunting.

One evening in late May of 2006, six piglets, ranging in age from two months to four months, stepped out of a transport van and into a cozy pen in our Northern California Shelter’s hospital building.

One hundred and sixty-seven pigs were the winners in a dramatic showdown between the animal rights movement and the pork industry just outside of Washington, D.C..