Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The crisis sparked by the Trump administration’s tariff policy has forced the world to consider which industries will be hardest ...

Thanks to this victory, USDA must again consider environmental impacts and public input before financing polluting factory farms. Thanks to this victory, USDA must again consider environmental impacts ...

Investigation finds number of dairy farms where cows cannot go outside has more than doubled since 2015 ...

Eastern Shore poultry factory farms are a decades-old hotspot for pollution Today, a key Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) wastewater discharge permit for animal feeding operations expires, ...

When artificial intelligence companies began buying up plots of land to build data centers on, there was a loud and swift backlash to this intrusion. A litany of voices claimed data centers require ...

Factory farming is a common yet controversial practice that allows for the large-scale production of meat products. However, the system often involves the inhumane raising and handling of animals.

Recent data analysis conducted by a human rights advocacy organization found that nearly a dozen international finance institutions directed over $3 billion to animal agriculture in 2023. The majority ...

Fish farming, a form of aquaculture, is now the fastest-growing form of factory farming worldwide. This rapid expansion can be attributed to the industry’s emphasis on buzzwords such as “climate,” ...

Last year, with the support of a broad coalition of farm and environmental advocacy groups, Oregon. Gov Tina Kotek signed into law a bill that significantly reformed how large animal farms operate in ...

The group Food & Water Watch bashed the continued growth of industrial livestock operations and repeated its call for a moratorium. The dominance of industrial-sized livestock operations continues to ...

According to the Humane Society of the United States, nearly 100 billion land animals are being slaughtered globally each year. The meat-dependent society that we live in today is causing billions of ...

A cow grazes in pastureland not far from the Buckeye Wind Energy farm near Hays, Kansas, in September 2024. (Charlie Riedel/AP) I’m a little late to the New Year’s resolutions rush for 2025. But in ...