One family in Illinois found a severed pig’s head in their front yard after they complained about factory farm odors. Elsie Herring, who over time became the face of the movement against North ...

The rearing of farmed animals today is dominated by industrialized facilities known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs (often referred to as “factory farms”) that ... sheep) and pigs ...

Also in Animal Equality's report, a survey commissioned by World Animal Protection found that 80% of consumers were "concerned about the treatment of factory-farmed pigs." "There is no excuse for ...

“The way that we treat pigs in these environments ... say almost 10 billion animals are raised on what they call “factory farms” each year, and described it as crowded facilities with ...

Residents in Castletown have lodged an appeal against a proposed pig farm in the area, with odours and emissions, water contamination, increased traffic and animal welfare among their main concerns.

AWI obtained the first USDA-approved label for pork from pigs who were raised on family farms, able to roam free on pastures or in bedded pens, and lived without the routine use of antibiotics to ...

Before a new exhibition on factory farming opened Tuesday, an image of a piglet mid-castration — screaming, restrained — was ...

Factory farming, or industrial animal agriculture, is often seen as a necessary evil to meet the world's growing demand for meat. Chickens, pigs, and cows are confined in cages, crates ...

She added: "Industrial factory farms are a failing model—harming not only our small farmers but also threatening food security. "We must halt the construction and expansion of new pig and ...