Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ana Maria Rodriguez shows the results of a nitrate test on a water sample brought from Umatilla County to the state Capitol in ...

The American food system relies heavily on industrial animal agriculture. Thousands or tens of thousands of animals packed into one place have been justified by the industry as a way to feed more ...

New Mexico already has some of the largest mega-dairies in the country. CTFP, a so-called “clean fuel” program, could entrench and enrich these polluting facilities. New Mexico already has some of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hens in cages (Photo via Getty Images) Factory farms in Iowa produce 109 billion pounds of waste each year, according to a new ...

The group Food & Water Watch bashed the continued growth of industrial livestock operations and repeated its call for a moratorium. The dominance of industrial-sized livestock operations continues to ...

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 ...

A contested case hearing against the DNR's permit to allow the Ridge Breeze Dairy in Pierce County to expand was held Tuesday ...

Lawsuit challenges Colorado’s failure to protect water, public health from unchecked factory farm pollution Food & Water Watch and the Center for Biological Diversity have filed an opening brief in ...

About 6.8 million. That was the number of farms in the U.S. at their peak in 1935. Today, the number is 1.9 million, a bit over a quarter of that high. Yet when it comes to farm-raised meat, the ...