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Last week, the US Department of Agriculture announced sweeping plans to increase slaughter line speeds at pork and poultry plants — a move that...
It’s now well established that for decades, major oil companies knew that burning fossil fuels would cause global warming, and yet did everything in...
A global economic meltdown seems to be the only event that can cause people to cut back on meat. In the years that followed the 2007 Great Recession,...
Since the start of 2025, over 27 million egg-laying hens — 9 percent of the entire national flock — have died from the bird flu or have been...
This is the final story in a series of articles on how factory farming has shaped the US. Find the rest of the series and future installments here,...
H5N1, a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza known as bird flu, continues to wreak havoc on the nation’s egg farms. In just the last month,...
Some archaeologists believe that when future civilizations sort through the debris of our modern era, we won’t be defined by the skyscraper, the...
BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minnesota — In 2014, Lowell Trom hit a breaking point. For two decades, he had watched as his small farming community in...
MALCOM, IOWA — When Carolyn Bittner moved to Malcom, Iowa, in 2008 to serve as a pastor at two churches, she had no idea the town was also home to...
The hundreds of billions of pounds of waste produced by America’s dairy cows every year has long been a headache for farmers. Manure is expensive...
A Vox reader asks: Why is factory farming still around? Factory farming — the intensive confinement of chickens, pigs, and cows on a massive scale...
America’s favorite animal to eat — the chicken — has also become its most expendable: In 2021, around 556 million chickens in the US died at...