Factory farming has become the dominant system for food production worldwide, yet many consumers remain unaware of the realities behind their meals. The industrialization of animal agriculture has ...

New research out this week underscores what many environmental justice advocates in the U.S. have long argued: Animal feeding operations — another term for factory farming — pollute the air, and these ...

New research out this week underscores what many environmental justice advocates in the U.S. have long argued: Animal feeding operations — another term for factory farming — pollute the air, and these ...

Every day, millions of animals live their entire lives in industrial farming facilities that most people will never see. These factory farms, or concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), produce ...

Factory farming takes a big, hidden toll on human health and the environment, is undermining rural America's economic stability and fails to provide the humane treatment of livestock increasingly ...

Abstract: This article presents a novel path planning approach for robotic manipulators operating in complex factory farming environments, where traditional methods struggle with strict obstacle ...

While the world’s leading finance institutions significantly divested from industrial animal agriculture last year, factory farming still received five times more funding than sustainable systems.

This article was produced for the Observatory by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Alex Crisp is a freelance journalist focusing on environment, animal welfare, and ...

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 dairy ...