Factory farming is defined as the extreme confinement of livestock for commercial use. This agricultural technique was invented by scientists in the 1960s in an effort to maximize efficiency and ...

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 ...

Factory farming is large industrialised farming and involves raising livestock in confined spaces indoors where they are intensively fed to increase profits for as little cost as possible.

This week, Future Perfect is publishing How Factory Farming Ends, a package of stories on the past and future of the movement against factory farming; its struggle to change our culture, ...

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.

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 ...

In factory farming, risks and liability are mostly externalized by the industry, and most often to the most vulnerable among us. This damage, this harm, is borne by many—from the workers to the ...

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They’ll hate what factory farming has done to their community. Plus, none of the next generation wants to go through that. The ones that have very, very positive experiences are, ...

But as factory farming became America’s dominant form of livestock production, awareness about its problems grew. Starting in the 1990s, undercover investigations by animal rights activists ...