Breeding Industrial farming strives for consistency of product and volume of output. To that end, genetic diversity and ...
No one likes how animals are treated on factory farms. But no one wants to stop eating them.
I am not a purist. I eat meat. But our reliance upon factory farms for meat products must change. Society does not have the right to inflict misery upon animals to produce cheap meat. Corporations ...
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 ...
Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death, which ...
Readers respond to a guest essay, “Stop Worrying, and Learn to Love Industrial Food.” They were at a much higher risk of malnutrition and missed out on the joy of a fresh Sumo orange in February. By ...
I once raised pigs. And factory farms raise them today in conditions that are as unconscionable as they are invisible.
The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. The first-of-its-kind map at FactoryFarmWatch.org is the most comprehensive single source of information on CA's 1300+ ...
About 6.8 million. That was the number of farms in the U.S. at their peak in 1935. Today, the number is 1.9 million, a bit over a quarter of that high. Yet when it comes to farm-raised meat, the ...