The rearing of farmed animals today is dominated by industrialized facilities known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs (often referred to as “factory farms”) that maximize profits by ...

Factory farms and slaughterhouses pose a tremendous threat to clean air and water ... used by the animal agricultural industry to prevent the illnesses that arise from overcrowding and confinement and ...

Half a century ago, family farms were prevalent. Animals grazed on pasture, breathing fresh air, and feeling sunshine on their backs. During inclement weather, they were sheltered in straw-bedded ...

An important first step is ending our reliance on huge factory farms and investing ... crowded facilities with intensive confinement. They say as a result, animals are able to carry out even ...

To prevent the emergence of zoonotic diseases, a 2022 paper called for reducing meat consumption to alleviate animal confinement ... in the U.S. live on factory farms, up nearly 50 percent since ...

Our fragile, consolidated factory farm system has created the perfect ... due to high-density animal confinement. Operations often cram together hundreds of thousands of animals, allowing ...

(Courtesy of the Oregon Department of Agriculture) Our fragile, consolidated factory farm ... of diversified independent farms for the perils of concentrated animal confinement.

The Animal Justice Party ... measures at a Maramarua chicken farm in New Zealand. The article, published on 8 December 2024, highlights the confinement of 360,000 chickens in sheds, described ...