The Food and Drug Administration revealed last week that it had found traces of the bird flu virus in 20% of a nationally representative sample of commercially sold pasteurized milk. That announcement ...

Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...

Analysis finds Oregon’s concentrated mega-dairies produce as much waste as more than two-thirds of the state’s human population Analysis finds Oregon’s concentrated mega-dairies produce as much waste ...

CAFOs are producing record amounts of waste, endangering water and public health A new interactive map, released today by the national environmental group Food & Water Watch, paints a comprehensive ...

Eduardo Porter and his readers on the environmental benefits of free-range beef. February 14, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. ESTToday at 1:00 p.m. EST Porter argued that pasture-raised, organic and grass-fed ...

A recent essay in The New York Times by Andrew Jacobs called "Is Dairy Farming Cruel to Cows?" has generated a lot of interest because more and more people in the general public—not only pro-animal ...

Mychal Wilmes recalls the personalities and problems he encountered with milk cows at his own farm and his neighbors', as well as the now known to be false tale of the cow that started the Chicago ...

This is an interesting set of interviews about the possibility of pain-free factory farming and what it might mean that will be of interest to many people (Show 67) "This weeks programme is devoted to ...