BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minnesota — In 2014, Lowell Trom hit a breaking point. For two decades, he had watched as his small farming ...

This excerpt has been edited for length. Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us From Factory Farming, is available for purchase now. In the spring of 2014, I found myself sitting across from a man ...

The pig operation proposed near Buffalo, N.D., in Cass County should not get automatic approval simply because it falls under the broad classification of “agriculture.” It’s not a mom-and-pop family ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christine Ro is a journalist covering science and development. A pig farm next to the Toachi River in northeast Ecuador. It’s hard ...

Factory farms in the Bay Area are subjecting animals to unimaginable abuse and neglect. As an animal cruelty investigator, I have seen it with my own eyes. That is why I am voting yes on DD, a ballot ...

For over 30 years, I’ve campaigned tirelessly for animals, founding Viva in 1994 to reveal the horrors of factory farming to the public and try to end it for good. I’ve visited dozens of factory farms ...

Mark Essig is the author of “Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig.” In a little discussed pending Supreme Court case, National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, the conditions of ...

Wisconsin's pristine Driftless Area will soon be home to a new industrial farm capable of producing thousands of pigs, after the Department of Natural Resources approved its pollutant discharge permit ...