The rearing of farmed animals today is dominated by industrialized facilities known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs (often referred to as “factory farms”) that maximize profits by ...

Typically, the people who operate these factory farms raise animals as contractors, also known as contract growers, for a regional company, like the Minnesota-based pork and turkey producer Holden ...

The warning from the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization came on March 17, the same day the a new U.S. outbreak of ...

PETA said the labels are affixed to meat, eggs and dairy sourced from factory farms. The animal rights group urged consumers not to trust that the labels actually certify humane animal treatment.

There is a growing consensus that factory farming of animals – also known as CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations – is morally wrong. The American animal rights movement, which in its ...

NEW YORK— Hundreds of millions of pounds of toxic pesticides used in the United States are applied to corn and soy crops that are grown to feed factory farmed animals, according to a new report, ...

Ridglan Farms was founded in 1966 and for nearly 60 years it has engaged in the controversial field of breeding beagles for ...

According to World Animal Protection, more than 95 percent of these hens live in factory farming conditions. Chickens hatched on factory egg farms lead horrifying lives. Male chicks are nearly ...