Most farm animals never get to know their families. In today’s animal agricultural systems, farmers instead profit on keeping them apart.

It’s been close to a decade since they first roamed our pastures, but Cowboy and Cassidy are back and calling Farm Sanctuary home again.

Most people see their pets as part of the family. At Farm Sanctuary, this rings true for the 1,000+ rescued farm animals our staff care for at our sanctuaries, as well as the companion animals we care for at home.

Five animals' lives have been saved thanks to a group of courageous Fullerton Union High Future Farmers of America students who made an unlikely decision: To let them live.

For many East Asians, the Year of the Pig, which lasts from February 2019 through February 2020, is particularly auspicious.

Emily Deschanel on new program that brings students face-to-face with animals rescued from the abuses of our modern food system: “Teaching kids compassion is one of the best things we can do to create a kinder, more just world.”

Earth Day started in 1970 in response to growing awareness and anxiety about the negative environmental impacts of human activities on the planet.

As climate change makes its way into classrooms, teachers need resources. Farm Sanctuary offers free in-classroom presentations and an online curriculum that explore animal agriculture’s effects on our planet and climate change.

A new peer-reviewed scientific article concludes they have a number of complex psychological capacities on a par with humans and other primates