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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Democratic lawmakers are renewing the effort to end what they call “factory farming.” What the group calls as a broad coalition comprised of animal welfare, public health and sustainable agriculture, ...

Five years after they allegedly snuck into a Utah pig farm and recorded video of themselves smuggling two piglets away from what they said were inhumane living conditions, two animal rights activists ...