Journalist Barry Estabrook knows how to enjoy a juicy heritage pork chop. He'll also be the first to tell you what intelligent, sensitive creatures pigs are. "I had no idea how smart they were until I ...

For two decades, he had watched as his small farming community in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, was taken over by hog factory farms. The first one was built in 1993. Five years later, another one went ...

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According to the Humane Society of the United States, nearly 100 billion land animals are being slaughtered globally each year. The meat-dependent society that we live in today is causing billions of ...

The idea of cows grazing in a pasture seems idyllic. We asked experts how their emissions stack up compared to factory farms. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey And that is bad news for our planet. By Matt ...

Twenty-five hundred cows produce as much waste as a city the size of Miami; many new, so-called "factory" farms are larger than that. Factory farms, officially called Concentrated Animal Feeding ...

In 2018, the African swine fever swept through China. It resulted in the loss of approximately 10 million pigs, leading to a significant decline in meat production. The country felt the effects of ...

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their ...

Factory farms in the Bay Area are subjecting animals to unimaginable abuse and neglect. As an animal cruelty investigator, I have seen it with my own eyes. That is why I am voting yes on DD, a ballot ...

The Environmental Protection Agency says America's pigs, cattle, poultry and other livestock create three times more waste than the nation's entire human population. The Department of Agriculture says ...