The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Factory farms are destroying the environment and harming animals on a massive scale. Their waste ...

I am not a purist. I eat meat. But our reliance upon factory farms for meat products must change. Society does not have the right to inflict misery upon animals to produce cheap meat. Corporations ...

Recent data analysis conducted by a human rights advocacy organization found that nearly a dozen international finance institutions directed over $3 billion to animal agriculture in 2023. The majority ...

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 ...

As more concentrated animal feeding operations in Wisconsin look to expand, researchers are raising concerns about how such expansion could harm drinking water and air quality for nearby communities.

Readers respond to a guest essay, “Stop Worrying, and Learn to Love Industrial Food.” They were at a much higher risk of malnutrition and missed out on the joy of a fresh Sumo orange in February. By ...

Last year, with the support of a broad coalition of farm and environmental advocacy groups, Oregon. Gov Tina Kotek signed into law a bill that significantly reformed how large animal farms operate in ...

About 6.8 million. That was the number of farms in the U.S. at their peak in 1935. Today, the number is 1.9 million, a bit over a quarter of that high. Yet when it comes to farm-raised meat, the ...