Before a new exhibition on factory farming opened Tuesday, an image of a piglet mid-castration — screaming, restrained — was ...

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 ...

There is a growing consensus that factory farming of animals – also known as CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations – is morally wrong. The American animal rights movement, which in its ...

Factory farming is undermining UK food security, a new report warns. Intensive farming costs the taxpayers millions in subsidies, culls when diseases erupt and environmental damage, according to the ...

Despite a heavy environmental impact, industrial animal agriculture is largely exempted from federal and state air and water pollution regulations.

Factory farming, or industrial animal agriculture, is often seen as a necessary evil to meet the world's growing demand for meat. Chickens, pigs, and cows are confined in cages, crates, or ...

Factory farming is undermining UK food security, a new report warns. Intensive farming costs the taxpayers millions in subsidies, culls when diseases erupt and environmental damage, according to ...

The rearing of farmed animals today is dominated by industrialized facilities known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs (often referred to as “factory farms”) that maximize profits by ...

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 ...

In the US, nearly all meat, milk, and eggs come from factory farms, which are prone to being overcrowded, stressful, disease-ridden environments where animals are especially susceptible to infections.

further discouraging tenant farmers from taking up sugarcane farming. During the 2024-25 crushing season, the Vuyyuru Sugar Factory processed only 2.64 lakh tonnes of sugarcane from 7,700 acres ...