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 ...

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.

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 ...

Two new settlements could change how the beef industry markets its products and require that it provide proof for its pledges to lower emissions. By Claire Brown Zoe Rosenberg, a California animal ...

An application for a chicken factory farm in Lincolnshire has prompted more than 1,000 objections from people across the UK. Six poultry houses would be built at Newton Grange Farm in Newton, near ...

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 ...

Sometime this year, an initiative aiming to curtail factory farming will appear on local ballots. Its authors frame it as a ban on cruel and unsanitary industrial farms. The local agricultural ...