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 ...

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.

This morning dozens of western Wisconsin farmers gathered to raise awareness about the impacts of a controversial factory farm expansion project.

Eduardo Porter and his readers on the environmental benefits of free-range beef. February 14, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. ESTToday at 1:00 p.m. EST Porter argued that pasture-raised, organic and grass-fed ...

California is one of the largest factory farming states in the nation, with over 80 million animals living in factory farms, including more dairy cows than any other state. California has faced ...

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 ...

Six months after the Coalition to End Factory Farming filed a ballot proposal to prohibit future concentrated animal feeding operations, or “factory farms,” it’s nearing its goal for signatures. The ...

A cow grazes in pastureland not far from the Buckeye Wind Energy farm near Hays, Kansas, in September 2024. (Charlie Riedel/AP) I’m a little late to the New Year’s resolutions rush for 2025. But in ...

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 ...

The measure would prohibit New York farms from owning more than 700 cows in an effort to curb factory farming. New York is the nation’s fifth-largest milk producer, with around 3,000 individual dairy ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. The first-of-its-kind map at FactoryFarmWatch.org is the most comprehensive single source of information on CA's 1300+ ...