Factory farming is the intense confinement of farmed animals raised for food, considered inhumane by some, to meet consumer demand for animal meats.

We’re talking, of course, about factory farming. In 2024, it’s hardly a secret that the billions of animals raised for food are treated abysmally. They are, to name just a few standard ...

China’s Pig High-Rises Are Horrifying. So Are America’s Factory Farms. Chinese pork facilities may seem dystopian—but the United States is where this whole trend got started.

Kenny Torrella is a senior reporter for Vox’s Future Perfect section, with a focus on animal welfare and the future of meat. A Vox reader asks: Why is factory farming still around? Factory ...

World Animal Protection, an welfare organisation, has called on heads of state gathered in Dubai for COP28 to curb factory farming to meet climate goals. Factory farming is large industrialised ...

Democrats’ dairy farming bill draws ire of upstate Republicans The measure would prohibit New York farms from owning more than 700 cows in an effort to curb factory farming.

Life After Factory Farming: ‘The Longer They’re Out, the Happier They Are.’ Tyler Whitley works with a group that helps farmers leave industrialized livestock agriculture, and says consumers ...

Restricting factory farming should play a key role in efforts to cut climate-warming greenhouse gases, an environmental charity said on Wednesday, as emissions from "food systems" emerge as a ...

What is distinct about factory farming is how it’s deployed modern agricultural, biomedical, and financial technologies to push the exploitation of animals to astonishing new extremes.

The report called ‘Your Taxes, Their Farms: Funding Factory Farming Abroad’ analysed 1,855 projects from 2018 to last year funded by development banks, which are set up and funded by ...