Tag: factory farming

Zoonotic diseases linked to factory farming raise pandemic risks, but food tech innovations offer a safer alternative.

New evidence seen by DeSmog suggests this surge of outrage against the report was stoked by a PR firm that represents the meat and dairy sector. 

There is a bigger issue here too—one that poses an existential threat to human health. Farms like this are central to the emergence and spread of so-called “superbugs.”

Factory farming has made us think of chickens as mindless automata. But our downy friends know much more than we give them credit for.

Massive industrial livestock financing sabotages major U.S. banks’ climate goals.

There has been a 29 percent increase in cattle farms with 5,000 or more cattle since 2012, and a 17 percent increase in the largest chicken farms.

A DeSmog review of hundreds of documents identifies eight arguments fielded by the industrial farming lobby to allay concerns over livestock drugs.

EPA begins process of mandating pollution reductions.

The victory could provide a glimpse of what a policy-focused national movement against the most climate-destructive forms of animal agriculture could look like.

No food should be worth the amount of suffering experienced by sentient animals trapped in our food system.