As the COVID-19 pandemic draws new attention to industrial-scale livestock agriculture, animal welfare groups are criticizing the way healthy farm animals are killed. The COVID-19 pandemic is drawing ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan— A new analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity and World Animal Protection found that a just transition away from industrial animal agriculture is a critical part of achieving ...

A new study of animals raised on industrial farms raises serious questions about public health and the effects of those farms on rural communities and on soil productivity. The study was conducted by ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released standards for animal products to use the “organic label,” a move applauded by Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy. After two ...

These days, the mention of a carthorse or mule plowing a field would transport many people back in time to an era of ...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has unveiled new legislation targeting America’s large livestock “corporations and industrial operators,” seeking to hold such entities accountable for disaster mitigation ...

More and more consumers are seeking to avoid products from “factory farms”—where animals are kept in abysmal conditions. Such consumers often look for animal-raising claims on packaging labels that ...

The legislature considered bills this session on (clockwisde from top left) the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores, neonicotinoid pesticides, animal welfare and independent repairs for farm and ...

Although the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, in Glasgow is fast approaching, it’s already clear that the scope of proposed solutions is far outweighed by the scale of the ...

Volunteers with the American Society for the Prevention of cruelty to Animals removed 170 dogs from a breeder in Manly, Iowa in 2018. The dogs were found in “appalling and overcrowded conditions,” ...