BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minnesota — In 2014, Lowell Trom hit a breaking point. For two decades, he had watched as his small farming ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. Livestock farming has repeatedly come under the microscope in ...

A local initiative that would limit the size of livestock and poultry farms in Sonoma County has qualified for the ballot, setting up what is likely to be a heated and expensive political fight this ...

Factory farms in Iowa produce 109 billion pounds of waste each year, according to a new report from Food and Water Watch about concentrated livestock operations in the U.S. That’s 25 times more waste ...