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 ...

Animals built to move should be allowed to move. That’s the fundamental principle behind Massachusetts’ Question 3, approved by voters in 2016 to protect farm animals and halt the use of extreme ...

Mette Frederiksen’s new government promises overhaul for people – and animals – in home of ultra-intensive farming ...

An investigator with Animal Outlook worked undercover at Holden Farms' Utica facility for five months and saw, among other things, dead and rotting piglets in hallways, workers cutting body parts off ...

Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death, which ...

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 ...

Intensive livestock farms such as those found across the US are spreading across the continent, according to new data American-style intensive livestock farms are spreading across Europe, with new ...

I once raised pigs. And factory farms raise them today in conditions that are as unconscionable as they are invisible. By Nicholas Kristof Readers respond to Eli Saslow’s front-page report about the ...