Factory farms could raise the risk of a new pandemic due to contact with humans and wildlife such as rats, a new study has warned. Intensive farming – also known as industrialised or ‘factory’ farming ...

By Seth Millstein for Sentient. 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 ...

A globally adopted system of ‘intensive animal agriculture’ or ‘factory farming’ has met the growing demand for cheap animal products. Cages, stalls, feedlots, and huge windowless barns house the 98 ...

Factory farming, also known as intensive animal farming, is a rapid form of breeding farm animals in order to maximize production at the lowest cost possible. Pigs, cows, chickens, and many other ...

Democratic lawmakers are renewing the effort to end what they call “factory farming,” while livestock groups like NCBA call the legislation a jumbled mess. By Tyne Morgan Updated October 30 ...

These conditions – and the attendant risks – are not unique to this farm. Factory farming practices have been in operation around the world for decades. To compensate, there’s been an easy fix: ...

Some people think that factory farming is necessary to feed the growing population of our planet. The truth, however, is the opposite. No matter how efficient intensive pork, beef, chicken, egg and ...

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, ...

Intensive agriculture itself is driving mutations. A study found that 95% of documented cases of mild avian influenza evolving into severe strains occurred in commercial poultry operations.

That means an immediate ban on new intensive poultry units across all the UK. This Author. Cathy Cliff is campaigns advisor at the Soil Association charity. She has authored reports around sustainable ...

Intensive agriculture itself is driving mutations. A study found that 95% of documented cases of mild avian influenza evolving into severe strains occurred in commercial poultry operations.