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.

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 ...

A local environmental group of local farmers, animal lovers, and environmentalists in Davis, Open Fields, hopes to come ...

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 and a column by Nicholas Kristof about the meat industry. The Save Our Bacon Act is bad for pigs and bad for us. By Ezra Klein I once raised pigs. And factory farms ...

According to the Humane Society of the United States, nearly 100 billion land animals are being slaughtered globally each year. The meat-dependent society that we live in today is causing billions of ...

This relentless growth is quietly pushing the planet’s natural resources to their absolute limit, reports The Guardian. A ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Kateman covers ethical technology and consumer trends. On the other hand, we’re also witnessing some stunningly nonsensical ...

Picture yourself standing in the grocery store, surrounded by egg cartons whose labels are loaded with words like “natural,” ...

I once raised pigs. And factory farms raise them today in conditions that are as unconscionable as they are invisible. By Nicholas Kristof Readers respond to Eli Saslow’s front-page report about the ...