In sub-Saharan Africa, pastoral livestock farming – where cattle, goats and sheep roam freely across grasslands, grazing at will – has been the main form of livestock production. It has been a source ...

Factory Farming is the term used to describe an area that raises livestock in confinement for mass production and is basically operated like a factory. The point of these so-called farms is to produce ...

Recent data analysis conducted by a human rights advocacy organization found that nearly a dozen international finance institutions directed over $3 billion to animal agriculture in 2023. The majority ...

Twenty-five hundred cows produce as much waste as a city the size of Miami; many new, so-called "factory" farms are larger than that. Factory farms, officially called Concentrated Animal Feeding ...

Extreme heatwaves are increasing stress for Europe’s cattle, forcing farmers to rethink housing, herd size, and land use.

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 ...

A local initiative that would limit the size of livestock and poultry farms in Sonoma County has qualified for the ballot, setting up what is likely to be a heated and expensive political fight this ...

Last year, with the support of a broad coalition of farm and environmental advocacy groups, Oregon. Gov Tina Kotek signed into law a bill that significantly reformed how large animal farms operate in ...