Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hens in cages (Photo via Getty Images) Factory farms in Iowa produce 109 billion pounds of waste each year, according to a new ...

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Broadcast version by Chrystal Blair for Missouri News Service reporting for the Sentient-Public News Service Collaboration An estimated 99 percent of farm animals in the U.S. live in what the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quite by accident, a neighbor said to me that the New York Times had a lengthy opinion piece in support of animal farms, which represent the worst form of modern agriculture. I checked it out and the ...

Factory farms in Iowa produce 109 billion pounds of waste each year, according to a new report from Food and Water Watch about concentrated livestock operations in the U.S. That’s 25 times more waste ...

The group Food & Water Watch bashed the continued growth of industrial livestock operations and repeated its call for a moratorium. The dominance of industrial-sized livestock operations continues to ...

Factory farming costs British taxpayers over £1.2 billion a year, according to a new report. The research found that the rise of factory farms has failed to make food cheaper or increase food security ...

A recent surge in bird flu outbreaks has raised serious concerns about the public health risks associated with live animal markets and factory farms. Experts warn that these facilities, including ...