Animals bred for food production constantly walk a razor-thin line between life and death that leaves them vulnerable to the most devastating abuses. The precariousness of their existence is perhaps most conspicuous when pain and loss befall a newborn in his very first moments, like the little lamb named Angelo who entered the world one fateful September day. From terror and trauma, however, hope also sometimes springs — as was the case in this story of heroic compassion in the face of cruelty. After being born on a slaughterhouse bound truck and orphaned as his mother was sent to her death, baby Angelo was rescued by a compassionate New Yorker in the nick of time and found his way to Farm Sanctuarys New York Shelter. Read more about Angelo at www.farmsanctuary.orgrescuerescues2009angelo.

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