Breeding Industrial farming strives for consistency of product and volume of output. To that end, genetic diversity and ...

Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented. Factory farms will make devastating storms and flooding even worse. Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented.

Factory farms have recently begun using mechanical anaerobic “digesters” to turn some of the animal waste they generate into “biogas.” Credit: Shutterstock In a major “greenwashing” offensive, many ...

From pollution to climate emissions, new research details how factory farms are failing Iowa. Industry “fixes” will only dig a deeper hole. From pollution to climate emissions, new research details ...

The American food system relies heavily on industrial animal agriculture. Thousands or tens of thousands of animals packed into one place have been justified by the industry as a way to feed more ...

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 ...

During the past six months I've been fortunate to go to a number of wonderful, inspirational, and highly educational meetings on topics ranging from animals in religion, to animal protection in Asia, ...

And while human consumption of animal products is naturally the core business of animal agriculture, there’s another set of individuals who pad the wallets of the meat industry: our pets. Most of the ...

In one version of the future, we will look back in horror at how we raised animals for food and are grateful for our generation who turned the tide. But in another, we will be eating and exploiting ...

Broadcast version by Chrystal Blair for Missouri News Service reporting for the Sentient-Public News Service Collaboration An estimated 99 percent of farm animals in the U.S. live in what the ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. The first-of-its-kind map at FactoryFarmWatch.org is the most comprehensive single source of information on CA's 1300+ ...

The first-of-its-kind map at FactoryFarmWatch.org is the most comprehensive single source of information on CA's 1300+ industrial animal farms By consolidating dispersed and often difficult-to-find ...