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.

And while human consumption of animal products is naturally the core business of animal agriculture, there’s another set of individuals who pad the wallets of the meat industry: our pets. Most of the ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation and community groups today appealed a federal court decision upholding a Trump Environmental Protection Agency rule that exempts factory farms from having to publicly report ...

This excerpt has been edited for length. Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us From Factory Farming, is available for purchase now. In the spring of 2014, I found myself sitting across from a man ...

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Factory farming is one of the most polluting and least regulated industries in the country. Our legal team details how they’re using the courts to change this. Factory farming is one of the most ...

A federal judge approved FWW intervention in a lawsuit challenging an inadequate cleanup plan for Lake Erie while denying industry groups’ attempt to do the same. A federal judge approved FWW ...

Sometime this year, an initiative aiming to curtail factory farming will appear on local ballots. Its authors frame it as a ban on cruel and unsanitary industrial farms. The local agricultural ...