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.
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 ...
There are some 90 million dogs in the US alone, and their protein needs are rattling the human food chain. Humans are worried about what’s in dog food, not to mention what dog food is in––way too much ...
When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their ...
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 ...
Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented. Factory farms will make devastating storms and flooding even worse. Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented.
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 ...
Iowa’s factory farms produce 109 billion pounds of waste annually, a 78% increase over 20 years, and more than 25 times the state’s human population A Food & Water Watch analysis of USDA’s 2022 Census ...