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, another one ...

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 ...

Factory farming, or industrial animal agriculture, is often seen as a necessary evil to meet the world's growing demand for meat. Chickens, pigs, and cows are confined in cages, crates, or ...

The odor footprint tool would be used to reduce or extend the setback distance of factory farm locations, based on the results of the tool developed by the agriculture commissioner. Imagine if a ...

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

According to World Animal Protection, more than 95 percent of these hens live in factory farming conditions. Chickens hatched on factory egg farms lead horrifying lives. Male chicks are nearly ...

When a celestial collapse sends shards of the earth hurtling into the skies and seas and leaves behind a foreign object, odd ...