BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minnesota — In 2014, Lowell Trom hit a breaking point. For two decades, he had watched as his small farming community in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, was taken over by hog ...

The warning from the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization came on March 17, the same day the a new U.S. outbreak of ...

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 ...

The odor footprint tool that is in Senate Bill 2174 was designed for the betterment of the livestock industry and not for the people. The odor footprint tool would be used to reduce or extend the ...

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 ...

Fifteen development banks and a fund tasked with supporting sustainable economic growth are investing billions of dollars to ...

In natural farming systems, cows eat grass and chickens peck for insects, turning things we don’t eat into food that we can. However in factory farms, animals are fed grain that could be used to ...

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

Three years into the epidemic that has claimed the lives of nearly 170 million farmed birds and caused 70 known human infections nationwide, Trump's newly appointed Secretary of Agriculture Brooke ...

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 ...