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 ...

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 ...

As Barbara Dozhier prepared a ham before the arrival of her great-grandchildren and the rest of her family last Christmas Eve, she prayed for a weather forecast with wind out of the south. A breeze in ...

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.

A year ago, the owner of an excavation company proposed building the largest factory chicken farm in the state on a rural farm between Scio and Mill City on the banks of Thomas Creek. Jason Peters ...

After a quiet summer, the virus is hitting poultry flocks hard in the run-up to the holidays — and in the midst of a federal government shutdown. By Emily Anthes and Apoorva Mandavilli There’s a ...

An application for a chicken factory farm in Lincolnshire has prompted more than 1,000 objections from people across the UK. Six poultry houses would be built at Newton Grange Farm in Newton, near ...

Maryland’s general wastewater discharge permit for the state’s polluting poultry factory farms expires on July 7 Annapolis, MD – Today, nine national and state environmental groups sent a letter ...

The global appetite for factory farmed chicken was deliberately engineered by an industry searching for ‘efficiency’.

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, ...

Two new settlements could change how the beef industry markets its products and require that it provide proof for its pledges to lower emissions. By Claire Brown Zoe Rosenberg, a California animal ...