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.

This reporting comes from episode 3 of the latest season of Marketplace’s “How We Survive,” which takes a closer look at how the climate crisis is also a food and agriculture crisis. How humanity ...

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 ...

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WASHINGTON— Conservation and community groups today appealed a federal court decision upholding a Trump Environmental Protection Agency rule that exempts factory farms from having to publicly report ...

This excerpt has been edited for length. Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us From Factory Farming, is available for purchase now. In the spring of 2014, I found myself sitting across from a man ...

A federal judge approved FWW intervention in a lawsuit challenging an inadequate cleanup plan for Lake Erie while denying industry groups’ attempt to do the same. A federal judge approved FWW ...

Sometime this year, an initiative aiming to curtail factory farming will appear on local ballots. Its authors frame it as a ban on cruel and unsanitary industrial farms. The local agricultural ...