In the United States, factory farms—also known as “concentrated animal feeding operations,” or CAFOs—have been around for decades. While they enable the cheap meat that many Americans take for granted ...

Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialised farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...

Alison Caffyn received grant funding from the Economic Social Research Council. The first time I encountered an intensive “chicken shed” up close I was taken aback by just how massive it was – the ...

The use of antibiotics in intensive poultry farming should not be cut but minimised and carefully planned to safeguard animal welfare, the American Association of Avian Pathologists (AAAP) has said.

A recent report has identified the eating and farming of animals as the single most risky human behaviour in relation to pandemics. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, however, is ...

Pollution from the pig and poultry farming sectors is harming the environment, a report has warned. The findings from the report from the Wildlife Trusts into the environmental impact of the sectors ...

Emma Garnett does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Agriculture has helped make the Netherlands rich, but experts warn that the density of farms and the increasing number of animals in one of the most intensive agricultural ...

Poultry farming is now considered one of the most profitable businesses in livestock production systems. More commercial poultry farmers are investing heavily in building and managing large and ...