No Downers Org

Farm Sanctuary was established with the rescue of a lone sheep who was left for dead on a pile of dead animals. Through more than 20 years of rescues, investigations, public education, and policy change, we have made great strides toward ending the suffering of downers, including successfully lobbying to enact the first state law in the country on downed animals in California in 1994. Still much work needs to be done to ban the abuse of downed animals and now is the time to act.