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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...