To prevent another outbreak of swine fever, China has transformed its traditional pig farms into giant factory farms. In ...

Over 995 dairy cow herds and at least 70 humans have been affected so far, including cases of severe disease and the first reported H5N1-related death in the U.S. In a Bluesky thread accompanying her ...

Factory farming is not a fringe issue. It sits at the crossroads of animal ethics, human rights, and ecological survival. What we eat - and how it is produced - shapes not just our health, but the ...

Due to a challenge from factory farming ... space for the animals. Nothing radical. Just basic decency. The pork industry has fought to block any federal legal standards to make pigs more comfortable.

Allowing cows, pigs, and chickens to roam free requires much more land, water, food, labor, and other resources than factory farming. Roaming animals consume more in general than feedlot animals ...

It’s backbreaking labor, nine-hour days in stifling barns in Wyoming, and no training could prepare her for the sensory assault of 10,000 pigs ... family farms, moved the animals indoors to ...

It turned out he hated factory farming as much as I did ... but [it] will result in higher animal welfare and less suffering of those pigs. Same with chickens. There are three chickens every second ...

So factory farms often preemptively remove pigs’ tails, usually without anesthetic. If a teenage boy were to cut off the tails of animals and yank off their testicles, he might be arrested and ...