Factory Farming is the term used to describe an area that raises livestock in confinement for mass production and is basically operated like a factory. The point of these so-called farms is to produce ...

BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minnesota — In 2014, Lowell Trom hit a breaking point. For two decades, he had watched as his small farming ...

Factory farms are booming, but farmers and rural communities are helming some of the fiercest and most successful opposition. You can learn more about the harms of the factory farm system, winning ...

The Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI) has delivered a letter to the World Bank Group at its Lagos office urging its executive directors to end industrial animal agriculture financing because of ...

A group of 105 climate change and animal welfare organizations has sent an open letter to the heads of sustainable finance at JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citi, urging them to stop making loans ...

Civil society organizations have started campaigns such as Stop Financing Factory Farming. They're urging multilateral development banks to stop funding high-emission systems. The G20 Sustainable ...

This excerpt has been edited for length. Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us From Factory Farming, is available for purchase now. In the spring of 2014, I found myself sitting across from a man ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christine Ro is a journalist covering science and development. A pig farm next to the Toachi River in northeast Ecuador. It’s hard ...

Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented. Factory farms will make devastating storms and flooding even worse. Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented.

A new report traces how international finance and development institutions are accelerating factory farming in low- and ...

Factory farms are destroying the environment and harming animals on a massive scale. Their waste pollutes our water, harms sea life and creates awful conditions for people living nearby. And now, ...

During the past six months I've been fortunate to go to a number of wonderful, inspirational, and highly educational meetings on topics ranging from animals in religion, to animal protection in Asia, ...