Another batch of 900 arrived last week and some 900 more will soon make their way to the roughly 140-acre farm in Aquebogue, ...

The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year, announcing its intent Wednesday to ...

Farmers are increasingly shifting from maize and wheat to coffee, avocado and horticulture, lured by better returns.

A globally adopted system of ‘intensive animal agriculture’ or ‘factory farming’ has met the growing demand for cheap animal products. Cages, stalls, feedlots, and huge windowless barns house the 98 ...

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 ...

These farmers were asking for more regulation of the meat industry? They didn’t like factory farming and what it was doing to rural communities? And they wanted the government to stop subsidizing this ...

“Fremont is an egg factory,” Bittner told me when I visited her late last year. “It’s not a farm.” The US Environmental Protection Agency categorizes egg farms with 82,000 or more hens ...

Despite corporate narratives of jobs and prosperity, the booming factory farm industry is devastating rural economies and communities. Despite corporate narratives of jobs and prosperity, the booming ...

Her focuses as an expert writer include animal rights and veganism. Factory farming is defined as the extreme confinement of livestock for commercial use. This agricultural technique was invented ...

In the early morning mist, thousands of animals stir restlessly in overcrowded barns, packed tightly in the dim light of industrial farms across the country. Their lives, reduced to numbers on a ...

Mercy for Animals president and CEO Leah Garcés has been an animal rights advocate fighting the factory farming system for more than two decades. But her approach to advocacy changed the day she met ...