This excerpt has been edited for length. Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us From Factory Farming, is available for purchase now. In the spring of 2014, I found myself sitting across from a man ...

For climate conscious eaters, beef has become the food to avoid. That’s largely thanks to the outsized climate footprint of factory farmed beef, which contributes more greenhouse gases per serving to ...

These new technologies may help mitigate some of the negative impacts of factory farming by promoting more ethical and sustainable practices. The transformation ongoing in the poultry industry is a ...

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 ...

When Tanner Faaborg was growing up in Iowa, his family was fairly self-sufficient. But his parents knew they needed to add to their income if they wanted to one day send their kids to college and ...

Animal factory farming is reducing the healthy life of the average human being by 1.8 years, according to groundbreaking global research conducted by the charity group World Animal Protection. Until ...

They were at a much higher risk of malnutrition and missed out on the joy of a fresh Sumo orange in February. By Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg The solution to pollution from industrial ...

Eastern Shore poultry factory farms are a decades-old hotspot for pollution Today, a key Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) wastewater discharge permit for animal feeding operations expires, ...

California is one of the largest factory farming states in the nation, with over 80 million animals living in factory farms, including more dairy cows than any other state. California has faced ...

Maryland’s general wastewater discharge permit for the state’s polluting poultry factory farms expires on July 7 Annapolis, MD – Today, nine national and state environmental groups sent a letter ...

Readers respond to a guest essay, “Stop Worrying, and Learn to Love Industrial Food.” They were at a much higher risk of malnutrition and missed out on the joy of a fresh Sumo orange in February. By ...