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 ...

Regenerative agriculture is proposed as a more sustainable alternative to industrial agriculture. It can include practices such as: integrating livestock into cropping systems to replenish soil and ...

Booker’s Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act aims to change that. Meat production is dangerous for animals and the people who slaughter them. Cory Booker’s new bill aims to change that.

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 ...

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.” ...