For two decades, he had watched as his small farming community in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, was taken over by hog factory farms. The first one was built in 1993. Five years later, another one went ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, pastoral livestock farming – where cattle, goats and sheep roam freely across grasslands, grazing at will – has been the main form of livestock production. It has been a source ...

Factory farms devastate our health, environment, and economy. Our legal team is winning progress and protections against ...

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 ...

Is our national habit of eating dead animals dragging us closer and closer to a flu pandemic that could kill tens of millions of Americans? Dr. Michael Greger believes so. He’s the author of the new ...

Recent data analysis conducted by a human rights advocacy organization found that nearly a dozen international finance institutions directed over $3 billion to animal agriculture in 2023. The majority ...

We won a suit of national importance against EPA for its lax permitting of factory farms in Idaho, and now we’re working to implement it across the country. We won a suit of national importance ...

As a lifelong Sonoma County resident and ethical farming advocate, I support Measure J, an initiative on the Nov. 5 ballot to prohibit factory farming. I grew up on my grandfather’s dairy, and today I ...

The Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI) has delivered a letter to the World Bank Group at its Lagos office urging its executive directors to end industrial animal agriculture financing because of ...

But now, industrialized, mass livestock farming —factory farming—is being increasingly funded by development banks. This is a problem because factory farming is a high-emissions method of producing ...