Decades of consolidation have pushed thousands of dairy farms out of business, as rising costs for feed, fertilizer, labor ...

Iowans will soon elect their next governor, and the state’s water quality has become a top issue in the campaign. Democrat ...

A large-scale study of food orders at German university cafeterias suggests that climate, health and animal welfare labels ...

Then came the vomiting and crying. She wasn’t gaining weight. Her parents took her to the hospital, and again a few days ...

There is a crisis growing across the U.S., leaving many farmers without the support they need, and many animals without adequate care. Amid the Trump administration’s vow to “rebuild the Great ...

A new report from the World Resources Institute on its Coolfood pledge initiative observes progress and challenges in curbing ...

The administration’s agenda expands protections for some, but still excludes almost all of the 10 billion land animals farmed ...

Iowa is the U.S. state with the most factory farms: 10,830 of them, to be exact. The massive scale of animal agriculture in Iowa produces staggering amounts of manure, more than its fields of corn, ...

The professor of political science remembers the neighbors emptying the waste from thousands of birds onto fields. She and her brother would break out into rashes. An Independent voters organization ...

A few weeks ago, after a grueling day of harvesting tobacco in eastern North Carolina, Zapata returned to the house he shared with other farmworkers and began to vomit uncontrollably. He recalls how ...

While the country’s farms tend to have high animal welfare standards, Bhutan also imports most of its meat. Phub Pem, a hazelnut farmer in Paro Valley, Bhutan, shows one of the nuts she has grown from ...