Having spent several years working to raise awareness about the problems created by factory farms, I’ve fielded a whole lot of questions about industrial livestock production–so many, in fact, that ...

The Food & Water Watch factory farm map illustrates that confined animal feeding operations, the dominant form of livestock production in the United States, also known as CAFOs or factory farms ...

Des Moines, IA — In the past decade, Iowa factory farms have paid less than $750,000 in punitive penalties for 179 reported illegal manure spills into state waterways, finds a new analysis of Iowa ...

Maps of North Carolina clearly show higher clusters of factory farms surrounding historically Black and low-income rural communities. Studies indicate that in some communities in North Carolina, for ...

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 ...

Dover, DE — Despite an outpouring of public opposition, the Sussex County Planning & Zoning Commission voted yesterday to recommend approval of Bioenergy DevCo’s proposed factory farm biogas facility ...

Sonoma County supervisors send ‘factory farm’ Measure J to ballot, reluctantly. The controversial initiative, which would make Sonoma County the first county in the nation to outlaw so-called ...

While the map doesn’t pinpoint the exact address of each factory farm, its county-by-county analysis provides an outstanding visual representation of national and state distribution trends. It’s also ...