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 ...

Industrial animal farming stands in direct opposition to the basic American values of compassion, kindness and ethical living.

For most pregnant pigs on big factory farms in the U.S., each four-month gestation is spent in a tiny crate. The sows can stand up but can’t turn around or take more than a couple of steps. Slats in ...

Mette Frederiksen’s new government promises overhaul for people – and animals – in home of ultra-intensive farming ...

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.

An investigator with Animal Outlook worked undercover at Holden Farms' Utica facility for five months and saw, among other things, dead and rotting piglets in hallways, workers cutting body parts off ...

Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death, which ...

I once raised pigs. And factory farms raise them today in conditions that are as unconscionable as they are invisible. By Nicholas Kristof Readers respond to Eli Saslow’s front-page report about the ...

Intensive livestock farms such as those found across the US are spreading across the continent, according to new data American-style intensive livestock farms are spreading across Europe, with new ...

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 ...