Animal factory farming is reducing the healthy life of the average human being by 1.8 years, according to groundbreaking global research conducted by the charity group World Animal Protection. Until ...

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.

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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 ...

The Environmental Protection Agency says America's pigs, cattle, poultry and other livestock create three times more waste than the nation's entire human population. The Department of Agriculture says ...

There are some 90 million dogs in the US alone, and their protein needs are rattling the human food chain. Humans are worried about what’s in dog food, not to mention what dog food is in––way too much ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation and community groups today appealed a federal court decision upholding a Trump Environmental Protection Agency rule that exempts factory farms from having to publicly report ...

Iowa’s factory farms produce 109 billion pounds of waste annually, a 78% increase over 20 years, and more than 25 times the state’s human population A Food & Water Watch analysis of USDA’s 2022 Census ...

Aquaculture is critical for feeding a hungry planet, but it does not need to be as reckless as it is today.

Michaelyn Mankel is an Iowa organizer with the national advocacy group Food & Water Watch. She lives in Des Moines. Cancer rates are through the roof. Well over half our tested waterways are polluted.