Gathered around the table in the kitchen of their family's Andover Township home — on a 117-acre property known as Blind Brook Farm — Cece Pattison and her children Kathy and David, as well as Jack ...

The cows don’t have to produce milk. The pigs sleep late. No animal on this former dairy farm serves a human need. Their only purpose is to live peacefully — and provoke questions about how we eat.

Some honor their loved ones by planting a tree. Laurie Zaleski went a lot further: She founded an entire animal sanctuary, just as she’d once promised her mother. Her mom, Annie McNulty, was a ...

The federal government mostly leaves policy about the housing and treatment of farm animals to the states, but there is increasing interest in a more active federal role, perhaps through the next farm ...