Factory farming is a common yet controversial practice that allows for the large-scale production of meat products. However, the system often involves the inhumane raising and handling of animals.

We live in the era of factory farming, also referred to as ‘industrial’ or ‘intensive’ farming, characterised by high production volumes and a focus on cost minimisation. A report earlier launched by ...

Factory farms devastate our health, environment, and economy. Our legal team is winning progress and protections against these industrial facilities — here’s how. Factory farms devastate our health, ...

Mercy for Animals president and CEO Leah Garcés has been an animal rights advocate fighting the factory farming system for more than two decades. But her approach to advocacy changed the day she met ...

Bringing Western industrial animal agriculture—and its disastrous environmental and health impacts—to low-income countries will do more harm than good. This documentary wants to convince you to be a ...

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 ...

Tyler Whitley works with a group that helps farmers leave industrialized livestock agriculture, and says consumers can play a role. By Cara Buckley A few years ago, Tyler Whitley was working at a help ...

For decades, U.S. policy has promoted polluting factory farms and Big Ag megacorporations. We can change that with policies that put people over profit. For decades, U.S. policy has promoted polluting ...

In natural farming systems, cows eat grass and chickens peck for insects, turning things we don’t eat into food that we can. However in factory farms, animals are fed grain that could be used to make ...

The Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI) has delivered a letter to the World Bank Group at its Lagos office urging its executive directors to end industrial animal agriculture financing because of ...