The soil, air and water are poisoned with pesticides and other chemicals used in conventional, industrial agriculture. Animals raised for food are given drugs that harm them -- and consumers ...

Factory-farmed products are not just ethically troubling-they also come with health risks. Diets high in animal products have ...

They found that, of the $3.3 billion spent on animal agriculture, $2.27 billion — or 68 percent — was put towards projects that support industrial animal agriculture, or factory farming.

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 ...

But we do need to change how we grow food. In addition to driving deforestation, agriculture contributes about 40 percent of human-caused methane emissions and almost 70 percent of human-caused ...

Congressional agriculture committees are pushing for a budget reconciliation plan that would cut SNAP benefits to support large-scale industrial agriculture operations, while also introducing the ...

A spokesperson for the Iowa Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship says that “allegations of animal mistreatment at a farm or by a livestock hauler are handled by local law enforcement.” ...