A Vox reader asks: Why is factory farming still around? Factory farming — the intensive confinement of chickens, pigs, and cows on a massive scale — developed in the second half of the 20th ...

There is a growing consensus that factory farming of animals – also known as CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations – is morally wrong. The American animal rights movement, which in its ...

Importantly, all of these proposals for reducing methane fail to address any of the other negative impacts of animal agriculture: polluted water from farm runoff, the considerable water usage ...

Readers disagree with an essay about factory farms. To the Editor: Re “Factory Farms Are Our Best Hope for Feeding the Planet,” by Michael Grunwald (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 15): As executive ...

By Sophie Kevany for Sentient. Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for Kentucky News Connection reporting for the ...

The editor of the effort, Eliza Barclay, is confident that the future of our food may rest “in vast, sustainably managed factory farms [relying on] water… pumped across the country ...