In sub-Saharan Africa, pastoral livestock farming – where cattle, goats and sheep roam freely across grasslands, grazing at will – has been the main form of livestock production. It has been a source ...

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 ...

Sebastopol’s city council on Tuesday night narrowly adopted a resolution opposing Measure J, joining other Sonoma County communities in taking a stand against the countywide ballot measure that ...

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 ...

Factory Farming is the term used to describe an area that raises livestock in confinement for mass production and is basically operated like a factory. The point of these so-called farms is to produce ...

WASHINGTON — Today, conservation and community groups appealed a federal court decision upholding a Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that exempts factory farms from their duty to make ...

The crisis sparked by the Trump administration’s tariff policy has forced the world to consider which industries will be hardest hit by future levies on imports and exports. Soy and corn are two of ...

During the past six months I've been fortunate to go to a number of wonderful, inspirational, and highly educational meetings on topics ranging from animals in religion, to animal protection in Asia, ...

Lawsuit challenges key California climate program incentivizing factory farm pollution nationwide A new interactive map, released today by the national environmental group Food & Water Watch, paints a ...

While the U.S. relies on mass culling, other nations have developed more effective, humane strategies. Canada also culls but avoids extreme supply disruptions by not cramming as many animals into ...

But now, industrialized, mass livestock farming —factory farming—is being increasingly funded by development banks. This is a problem because factory farming is a high-emissions method of producing ...