Factory Farming is the term used to describe an area that raises livestock in confinement for mass production and is basically operated like a factory. The point of these so-called farms is to produce ...

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

Factory farming is a common yet controversial practice that allows for the large-scale production of meat products. However, the system often involves the inhumane raising and handling of animals.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Factory farms in Iowa produce 109 billion pounds of waste each year, according to a new report from Food and Water Watch about concentrated livestock operations in the U.S. That’s 25 times more waste ...

During the past six months I've been fortunate to go to a number of wonderful, inspirational, and highly educational meetings on topics ranging from animals in religion, to animal protection in Asia, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...