According to the Humane Society of the United States, nearly 100 billion land animals are being slaughtered globally each year. The meat-dependent society that we live in today is causing billions of ...

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.

I’ve been reporting on factory-farmed cattle for over a decade. The government may finally be ready to take action ...

Not an easy prospect given that the thick end of what cattle were in sheds are gone or, in the words of one farmer I spoke ...

Readers respond to a guest essay and a column by Nicholas Kristof about the meat industry. The Save Our Bacon Act is bad for pigs and bad for us. By Ezra Klein I once raised pigs. And factory farms ...

This reporting comes from episode 3 of the latest season of Marketplace’s “How We Survive,” which takes a closer look at how the climate crisis is also a food and agriculture crisis. How humanity ...