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 ...

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 ...

Factory farming is a common yet controversial practice that allows for the large-scale production of meat products. However, the system often involves the inhumane raising and handling of animals.

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. The first-of-its-kind map at FactoryFarmWatch.org is the most comprehensive single source of information on CA's 1300+ ...

Over the years Seth Watkins has won praise for the way he farms. Pinhook Farm, in southern Iowa, grows diverse crops without commercial fertilizers and with limited pesticides. It also tries to tune ...

Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death, which ...

The first was the lift in factory prices and how that had, in turn, pushed up mart prices. The second was the continuing ...

This reporting comes from episode 3 of the latest season of Marketplace’s “How We Survive,” which takes a closer look at how the climate crisis is also a food and agriculture crisis. How humanity ...

Readers respond to a guest essay and a column by Nicholas Kristof about the meat industry. The Save Our Bacon Act is bad for pigs and bad for us. By Ezra Klein I once raised pigs. And factory farms ...

These concerns have also been echoed in the mart industry, with some smaller mart outlets also fearing for their future ...