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.

Factory farms, also called “concentrated animal feeding operations” (CAFOs), enable meat companies to pump out enormous ...

Factory farming is the intense confinement of farmed animals raised for food, considered inhumane by some, to meet consumer demand for animal meats.

What she didn’t realize was that he was also against the factory farm system, having experienced first-hand the way it abuses farmers. What unfolded in the years after their first meeting was an ...

Factory farms generate greenhouse gasses and other pollution, and require vast amounts of freshwater. To combat global warming, the United Nations has urged people to consume less meat.

Factory farming, overwhelmingly dominated by huge corporations like Tyson, Smithfield, ConAgra and Seaboard, has contributed to rural depopulation and the decline of the family farm. It has nothing ...

The measure would prohibit New York farms from owning more than 700 cows in an effort to curb factory farming. New York is the nation’s fifth-largest milk producer, with around 3,000 individual ...