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 ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Brian Kateman covers ethical technology and consumer trends. Raising animals for food is a major contributor to global warming, air and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...