For consumers, humane animal care is increasingly tied to broader questions about food transparency, environmental impact and ...

Explore the history of Farm Sanctuary, a pioneering organization celebrating 40 years of advocacy for farm animals.

They’re not clucking around. Animal activists blasted a plan to open an organic egg farm with 6,000 chicken on Long Island — calling it a “factory’ that could be a legitimate public health risk. The ...

A fifth grader, assigned to read "Animal Farm" years ago, was asked by his teacher what he thought it was "about." "The American revolution," replied the 11-year-old promptly. "No, no, no." The ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Today's factory farms are monuments to humanity's unprecedented technological sophistication and our seemingly limitless capacity for cruelty. What's more, ...