Journalist Barry Estabrook knows how to enjoy a juicy heritage pork chop. He'll also be the first to tell you what intelligent, sensitive creatures pigs are. "I had no idea how smart they were until I ...

What is the most fundamental right for all living creatures? Most would agree that it is the right to life – the basic ability to exist without being caused harm. Every living thing on Earth has a ...

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely. Opponents of factory farms and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Environmental Protection Agency says America's pigs, cattle, poultry and other livestock create three times more waste than the nation's entire human population. The Department of Agriculture says ...

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 ...

In 2018, the African swine fever swept through China. It resulted in the loss of approximately 10 million pigs, leading to a significant decline in meat production. The country felt the effects of ...

Pig farming and wastewater were among the factors that consistently contributed to river pollution between 2020 and 2024, ...