Factory farming — the intensive confinement of chickens, pigs, and cows on a massive scale — developed in the second half of the 20th century to feed a growing, and increasingly prosperous ...

Communities. Generally hidden from view, but in sickness and wellness, humans are tightly bound to the lives of factory-farmed animals. The current outbreak of H5N1- already a panzootic (animal ...

Organic and free-range farming is often high maintenance and costly. Allowing cows, pigs, and chickens to roam free requires much more land, water, food, labor, and other resources than factory ...

04/05/2025 April 5, 2025. Cheese that doesn’t come from milk, but from modified yeast cells tweaked to produce milk proteins. The biotech solution could help address problems with factory farming.

Eduardo Porter’s column came to the sad conclusion that we should all be buying beef from unhappy cows raised in feedlots. As a former ecologist with more than 40 years of experience farming ...

Docking the tails belonging to cows and pigs is another form of animal cruelty that is commonly practiced in factory farming. What’s infuriating is that this practice is legal in many places in the ...

Factory farming, or industrial animal agriculture, is often seen as a necessary evil to meet the world's growing demand for ...

New York is the nation’s fifth-largest milk producer, with around 3,000 individual dairy farms and more than 600,000 dairy cows. All of those cows reside on farmland outside New York City, which ...

The measure would prohibit New York farms from owning more than 700 cows in an effort to curb factory farming. New York is the nation’s fifth-largest milk producer, with around 3,000 individual ...

THE iconic cow and calf statues located at a milk manufacturing facility in Section 13, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, will bid adieu to PJ residents on Oct 27.