There is a growing consensus that factory farming of animals – also known as CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations – is morally wrong. The American animal rights movement, which in its ...

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 ...

Despite a heavy environmental impact, industrial animal agriculture is largely exempted from federal and state air and water ...

Three years into the epidemic that has claimed the lives of nearly 170 million farmed birds and caused 70 known human ...

In natural farming systems, cows eat grass and chickens peck for insects, turning things we don’t eat into food that we can.

Factory farming is undermining UK food security, a new report warns. Intensive farming costs the taxpayers millions in ...

This week's factory quotes have seen yet another price rise of up to 15c/kg and more in some cases as the beef trade ...

I'm Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Prior to the 1800s, most of the tools and equipment farmers and ranchers used ...

Our food system is increasingly dominated by intensive animal agriculture known as factory farms, which are designed to ...