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.

Industrialized farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from animals to humans) because of better control, biosecurity and separation of livestock. It finds ...

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 ...

Many words we use come with hidden baggage. For instance we tend to assume that local, natural and grass-fed foods are good for our health, the environment and animal welfare, while intensive farming ...

Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death, which ...

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 ...

Our food system is increasingly dominated by intensive animal agriculture known as factory farms, which are designed to produce as much meat as possible, cheaply and quickly. Nearly all animals farmed ...

GENEVA, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposal to ban factory farming in a referendum on whether the wealthy country's strict animal welfare laws need to be tightened yet ...

Anger is mounting over a controversial plan to create a ‘factory farm’ in an East Lindsey village to raise up to two million ...

Many words we use come with hidden baggage. For instance we tend to assume that local, natural and grass-fed foods are good for our health, the environment and animal welfare, while intensive farming ...