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We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.

Here’s what the data reveal about the country’s factory farm hotbed. The post We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned. appeared first on The Goo...

Inside the Egg Industry: Mercy For Animals Investigation Documents the Killing of Newly Hatched Male Chicks

The post Inside the Egg Industry: Mercy For Animals Investigation Documents the Killing of Newly Hatched Male Chicks appeared first on Mercy For Animals.

Is Farmed Fish Really Sustainable? New Investigation Reveals the Hidden Cost

Industrial fish farming, also known as aquaculture, can contribute to overfishing, pollution, and human rights abuses. The post Is Farmed Fish Really Sustainable? New Investigation...

The hidden cost of farmed fish: Pollution, forced labor and the depletion of wild fish

Fish farming has been marketed as a sustainable answer to overfishing. But an investigation found that the feed behind much of modern aquaculture is driving ocean depletion, labor...

We Asked 1,000 Iowans About Factory Farming. Here’s What We Learned

A survey taken this past spring shows a majority of Iowans say they have experienced negative environmental impacts from industrial animal operations. But plenty are also ambivalen...

A Great Moral Blind Spot of Our Age

An undercover video offers a grim tableau of where our meat comes from.

A Hidden Practice Inside the Egg Industry

The post A Hidden Practice Inside the Egg Industry appeared first on Mercy For Animals.

Controversial Pierce Co. factory farm appeals groundwater decision

A factory farm in Pierce County filed a lawsuit late last month appealing an administrative law judge’s decision that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources didn’t include e...

Gargantuan feedlot telegraphs woes for cattle and the environment

I was just reading about a feedlot in Nebraska, near where that state meets Kansas and Colorado. It is set to become the largest in the country, holding in one square mile up to 15...

Too few vets, too many animals: Inside the farm veterinarian shortage

There is a crisis growing across the U.S., leaving many farmers without the support they need, and many animals without adequate care. Amid the Trump administration’s vow to “rebui...

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Former M&S supplier dairy farm owner ‘appalled’ after undercover cruelty footage

The undercover videos were filmed when the farm was part of the RSPCA Assured certificate scheme

Why Big Meat Has an Ugly Human Rights Problem 

The meat industry is associated with animal rights violations, environmental damage, and health risks. But it’s also rife with human rights issues. 

Country Life: Taranaki pig farmer goes whole hog to stay ahead

Faced with tough competition, tightening welfare rules and increasing costs, a Taranaki pig farmer is going whole hog to stay ahead.

Watch: Animals Locked in 50 Warehouses Before Being Sold to Laboratories

Drone footage obtained by PETA and We Animals reveals Marshall BioResources’ sprawling compound, where dogs and ferrets remain trapped indoors—never feeling the sun, wind, or grass...

Farmers in North Carolina, U.S. tinker with sustainability

The post Farmers in North Carolina, U.S. tinker with sustainability appeared first on Mercy For Animals.

Concrete Farming

So-called “educated”,...

This Family Farm Raises Dogs for Meat—and We’re Kind of Obsessed

Meet Elwood’s Organic Dog Meat, the viral fake farm using satire, outrage, and “humanely raised” dogs to expose the marketing behind ethical meat.

Pig farms urged to heed rules about feed

Investigation Reveals Baby Animals Ground Up Alive

A Mercy For Animals investigation has exposed how fully conscious, newly hatched chicks are ground up alive by the egg industry. The post Investigation Reveals Baby Animals Ground...

Country Life: Technograzing and virtual fences on a Taranaki farm

Introducing virtual fencing and other technology has helped the Hardwick-Smith family double the profitability of some parts of their sheep and beef business.

Chicken farm 80,000 bird expansion can move forward without eco check

A proposal to expand an Oxfordshire chicken farm to hold 320,000 birds is set to avoid an environmental check as it moves forward.

Gargantuan feedlot telegraphs woes for cattle and the environment

I was just reading about a feedlot in Nebraska, near where that state meets Kansas and Colorado. It is set to become the largest in the country, holding in one square mile up to 15...

Food Foundations: Livestock & Poultry Slaughter and Processing

Elizabeth Rumley, Senior Staff Attorney Mary Grace Winfrey, Research Fellow   The terms “slaughter” and “processing” describe different, although closely related,...