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In 'Loud and Clear' Rebuke of Factory Farming, California Passes World's 'Strongest Animal Welfare Law'

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'Hugely Important Breakthrough for Human and Animal Health' as EU Approves Antibiotic Restrictions for Livestock to Battle Superbugs

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"Antibiotic resistance is a real sword of Damocles, threatening to send our health care system back to the Middle Ages."

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3 Women Charged With Grand Theft Felony For Saving Thrown Away Baby Cow

Michael Sainato, Chelsea Skojec

"Factory farming is inherently cruel, but even from a factory farm perspective...

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Emissions Impossible: How Big Meat and Dairy Are Heating Up the Planet

GRAIN and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)

"Most of the top 35 global meat and dairy giants either do not report or underreport their emissions. Only four of them provide complete, credible emissions estimates." (Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

Together, the world’s top five meat and dairy corporations are now responsible...

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50+ Groups Back Landmark Effort to Halt 'Out of Control' Factory Farming in Iowa

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To Fight Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance, WHO Issues First-Ever Guidelines to Curb Use

Global Demand for Meat Amounts to 'Appetite for Destruction,' Says New Study

With New Leadership on the Way, Public Health Experts Demand WHO Take on Factory Farms

Has Last Shoe Dropped in Fight Against Superbugs?

'Climate Tax' on Meat and Dairy Would Sink Emissions and Diseases: Study

Millions Face Hunger by 2030 Without 'Deep Transformation' of Agriculture: UN

Global Investors to Big Food: Cut Meat to Avoid 'Protein Bubble'

Antibiotics Expert Warns It's 'Almost Too Late' to Stop Global Superbug

Farm Sanctuary Gets Lift from Celebrity Couple Jon and Tracey Stewart

As McDonald's Signals Major Shift, A Reminder That 'Cage-Free' ≠ 'Cruelty-Free'

'Apologies... But the Farmers Are Coming'

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Environmental Working Group (EWG)

Map: Florence Drenched Thousands of North Carolina CAFOs and Animal Waste Pits

National Employment Law Project

Trump USDA to Allow Faster Poultry Line Speeds, Ignoring Danger to Workers and Consumers

The Cornucopia Institute

USDA-Backed “Factory Farm” Takeover of Organic Milk Production Crushing Family-Scale Farmers and Forcing Them Out of Business

Food & Water Watch

FDA Investigating Possible Link Between Factory Farms and Tainted Lettuce

Food & Water Watch

USDA Inspectors Pressured to Keep Line Speeds Up Under Privatized Inspection System

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Big Meat and Dairy Companies are Heating up the Planet: New Report

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Christopher D. Cook

To Address the Climate Crisis, We Must Completely Rethink How We Produce and Consume Food

Michael Sainato, Chelsea Skojec

Police Arrest 58 Activists After Factory Conditions Exposed at 'Free Range' Perdue Supplier

Patty Lovera

Trump’s Farmer "Bailout," Explained

Lee Camp

The No. 1 Cause of Climate Change the Media Don’t Mention

Wenonah Hauter

What Fossil Fuels and Factory Farms Have in Common

Glenn Greenwald

Six Animal Rights Activists Charged With Felonies for Investigation and Rescue That Led to Punishment of a Utah Turkey Farm

Elizabeth Enochs

Steve King Wants to Force States to Hurt Animals—and People

Kenny Torrella

McDonald's Once Made Progress on Animal Welfare, But Has Now Fallen to the Back of the Pack

Glenn Greenwald

The FBI’s Hunt for Two Missing Piglets Reveals the Federal Cover-Up of Barbaric Factory Farms

Mark Devries

New Drone Footage Exposes the Scale of Factory Animal Farming Like Never Before

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