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Coffee Break: Animal farm

Piglets settle in for a nap after nursing inside their pen at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley, Minn. on Friday, March 24, 2017.
Piglets settle in for a nap after nursing inside their pen at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley, Minn. on Friday, March 24, 2017.Evan Frost | MPR News

by Anna Reed

April 10, 2017

April 10th is National Farm Animals Day.

It's a day to raise awareness about the plight of slaughter animals, as well as to empower animal lovers to to find homes for abandoned and abused farm animals.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention farm animals?

Submit your own idea for a Coffee Break and browse past Coffee Breaks in our archive.

Songs played

The Go-Betweens - Cattle And Cane
Joey Ryan And The Inks - Blind Goat
Howlin' Wolf - Little Red Rooster
Doomtree - Gray Duck
Sonic Youth - Bull in the Heather
The Beatles - Piggies
The Suburbs - Cows
Nine Inch Nails - March Of The Pigs
Frankie Laine - Rawhide