BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minnesota — In 2014, Lowell Trom hit a breaking point. For two decades, he had watched as his small farming ...

Factory farms in the Bay Area are subjecting animals to unimaginable abuse and neglect. As an animal cruelty investigator, I have seen it with my own eyes. That is why I am voting yes on DD, a ballot ...

The idea of cows grazing in a pasture seems idyllic. We asked experts how their emissions stack up compared to factory farms. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey And that is bad news for our planet. By Matt ...

According to the Humane Society of the United States, nearly 100 billion land animals are being slaughtered globally each year. The meat-dependent society that we live in today is causing billions of ...

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their ...

This excerpt has been edited for length. Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us From Factory Farming, is available for purchase now. In the spring of 2014, I found myself sitting across from a man ...

Twenty-five hundred cows produce as much waste as a city the size of Miami; many new, so-called "factory" farms are larger than that. Factory farms, officially called Concentrated Animal Feeding ...

We live in the era of factory farming, also referred to as 'industrial' or 'intensive' farming, characterised by high production volumes and a focus on cost minimisation. A report earlier launched by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christine Ro is a journalist covering science and development. A pig farm next to the Toachi River in northeast Ecuador. It’s hard ...