Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable,” reveals how the animal agriculture industry shielded itself from scrutiny.

Trade unions and progressive movements rightly demand better wages and working conditions for employees to improve society.

Will Potter’s “Little Red Barns” is an impassioned and thoroughly researched examination of factory farming and how it harms animals, the planet and us.

Making Factory Farming Smarter. Large-scale farms might be impersonal and industrial, but they aren’t particularly technologically advanced. New software could help them manage their chickens ...

Before "factory farming" became a pejorative, agricultural scholars of the mid-20th century were calling for farmers to do just that — become more factorylike and businesslike.

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, ...

Factory farming is killing the planet: Why the meat industry's future needs to look more like its past Sonia Faruqi visited 60 farms in eight countries. Here's what she learned.

“Factory farms … are places of immense and avoidable suffering,” wrote GOP speechwriter Matthew Scully, in his 2013 National Review story titled “Pro-Life, Pro-Animal.” “Large-scale ...

The cruelty of factory farming drove me to replace animal products in my diet with plant-based meat and dairy items. I have since learned that my cruelty-free diet is also great for my health and ...

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