Some cruelty hides in the open. Tourists snap photos. Shoppers swipe credit cards. People scroll past without thinking twice.

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 ...

Factory farms and slaughterhouses pose a tremendous threat to clean air and water, communities, wildlife, workers, our climate and a healthy environment. Over the past 40 years, animal agriculture in ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In natural farming systems, cows eat grass and chickens peck for insects, turning things we don’t eat into food that we can. However in factory farms, animals are fed grain that could be used to ...

If the government wishes to act responsibly, it must shift its support away from factory farming, an industry that facilitates the spread of dangerous pathogens. To truly protect animals and ...