Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two pigs are transported to a slaughterhouse. David Inderlied/dpa Pigs have been kept in appalling conditions at a pig farm in the ...

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Every few months in recent years, Western news readers have been treated to a macabre tale: companies in China building massive multistory pig factory farms to feed the country’s appetite for pork.

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A political campaign focused on pig welfare and polluted drinking water in Denmark shows that factory farm ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christine Ro is a journalist covering science and development. A pig farm next to the Toachi River in northeast Ecuador. It’s hard ...

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 ...

The Forum reported on the North Dakota Sow Center seeking a $400,000 state grant to build four 5,000-pig farrowing barns in different locations in North Dakota. I have concerns regarding our tax money ...

A former hog operation in Radcliffe, Iowa, has been converted into a specialty mushroom farm and now serves as the second ...

"We thought we would have to make really complicated arguments. Suddenly, it was just about the pig." ...