When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their ...

As Barbara Dozhier prepared a ham before the arrival of her great-grandchildren and the rest of her family last Christmas Eve, she prayed for a weather forecast with wind out of the south. A breeze in ...

These new technologies may help mitigate some of the negative impacts of factory farming by promoting more ethical and sustainable practices. The transformation ongoing in the poultry industry is a ...

For climate conscious eaters, beef has become the food to avoid. That’s largely thanks to the outsized climate footprint of factory farmed beef, which contributes more greenhouse gases per serving to ...

Josh Tetrick swears he’d have another job if only all poultry producers farmed thoughtfully and could keep up with the appetite of a growing global population. However, of the more than 230,000 ...

Eastern Shore poultry factory farms are a decades-old hotspot for pollution Today, a key Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) wastewater discharge permit for animal feeding operations expires, ...

EASTERN SHORE, MD - An environmental group is calling on Governor Wes Moore to halt new permits for factory poultry farms in Maryland, claiming the waste produced by the Eastern Shore’s robust poultry ...

The idea of cows grazing in a pasture seems idyllic. We asked experts how their emissions stack up compared to factory farms. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey And that is bad news for our planet. By Matt ...

Maryland’s general wastewater discharge permit for the state’s polluting poultry factory farms expires on July 7 Annapolis, MD – Today, nine national and state environmental groups sent a letter ...