In the United States, factory farms—also known as “concentrated animal feeding operations,” or CAFOs—have been around for decades. While they enable the cheap meat that many Americans take for granted ...

Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialised farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...

Alison Caffyn received grant funding from the Economic Social Research Council. The first time I encountered an intensive “chicken shed” up close I was taken aback by just how massive it was – the ...

Guinea fowl in a poultry house in western France - Copyright AFP/File INA FASSBENDER Guinea fowl in a poultry house in western France - Copyright AFP/File INA ...

Raising chickens is rapidly becoming a lucrative farming enterprise that provides affordable protein to households across the country.However, there are critical factors that farmers must understand ...

A recent report has identified the eating and farming of animals as the single most risky human behaviour in relation to pandemics. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, however, is ...

Residents in a Northumberland hamlet are campaigning against plans for new intensive chicken shed at a nearby farm. Well House Farm, in Colwell, has applied for planning permission to build four ...

Poultry farming is now considered one of the most profitable businesses in livestock production systems. More commercial poultry farmers are investing heavily in building and managing large and ...

Residents are opposing plans for a new factory farm in their village, which would bring another 1.3 million chickens a year to East Lindsey is approved. An application for a poultry unit on Fenside ...