The California-based animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) just published an interactive map and database of the 1300+ largest factory farms in California, sharing exactly where these ...

Colorado has strict requirements to protect water supplies from the impacts of factory farms, but a new lawsuit claims the state is failing at this important task because of a fatal flaw in its ...

Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented. Factory farms will make devastating storms and flooding even worse. Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented.

In recent years, researchers have begun using satellite imaging to detect methane plumes from factory farms — but the picture ...

Despite what the industry says, factory farm gas isn’t clean, green, or renewable. Here’s what’s at stake for our communities and the climate. Despite what the industry says, factory farm gas isn’t ...

The American food system relies heavily on industrial animal agriculture. Thousands or tens of thousands of animals packed into one place have been justified by the industry as a way to feed more ...

Aquaculture is critical for feeding a hungry planet, but it does not need to be as reckless as it is today.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hens in cages (Photo via Getty Images) Factory farms in Iowa produce 109 billion pounds of waste each year, according to a new ...

In one version of the future, we will look back in horror at how we raised animals for food and are grateful for our generation who turned the tide. But in another, we will be eating and exploiting ...

And while human consumption of animal products is naturally the core business of animal agriculture, there’s another set of individuals who pad the wallets of the meat industry: our pets. Most of the ...

Factory farms are a hot-button topic in Wisconsin, a state that was once home to thousands of small family farms. The large-scale animal operations, which can produce milk, beef, chicken, turkeys and ...

About 6.8 million. That was the number of farms in the U.S. at their peak in 1935. Today, the number is 1.9 million, a bit over a quarter of that high. Yet when it comes to farm-raised meat, the ...