Factory farms are a hot-button topic in Wisconsin, a state that was once home to thousands of small family farms. The large-scale animal operations, which can produce milk, beef, chicken, turkeys and ...

We won a suit of national importance against EPA for its lax permitting of factory farms in Idaho, and now we’re working to implement it across the country. We won a suit of national importance ...

Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented. Factory farms will make devastating storms and flooding even worse. Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented.

The American food system relies heavily on industrial animal agriculture. Thousands or tens of thousands of animals packed into one place have been justified by the industry as a way to feed more ...

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.

Factory farms have recently begun using mechanical anaerobic “digesters” to turn some of the animal waste they generate into “biogas.” Credit: Shutterstock In a major “greenwashing” offensive, many ...

Wisconsin regulators can't legally impose environmental regulations on factory farms before they become operational, two farm advocacy groups allege in a lawsuit that could dramatically loosen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin regulators can’t legally impose environmental regulations on factory farms before they become operational, two farm advocacy groups allege in a lawsuit that could ...