Deriving nearly all of our meat, dairy, and eggs from factory farms wasn’t inevitable, but rather the end result of thousands of choices made by thousands of policymakers, farmers, and corporate ...

Fig 2. Up until the late 20th century, most hogs were raised on smaller, diversified operations. But significant changes in U.S. farm policy and growing corporate power transformed the way we grow ...

Factory farming is the intense confinement of farmed animals raised for food, ... Dairy, And Plant Protein Intake Of US Adults In 2007–2010." Nutrients, vol. 7, no. 8, 2015, pp. 7058-7069., ...

How We Win to Stop Polluting Factory Farms. Fights like this are popping up across the country as the factory farm industry expands. In just the past twenty years, the number of CAFOs has grown by 50% ...

Measure J, put forward by the Coalition to End Factory Farming, a group of animal advocacy groups, would force Sonoma County farms with 700 or more dairy cattle or at least 82,000 laying hens ...

Across the country, factory farms have led to extreme water and air pollution that cause environmental and health problems and harm the communities they enter. ... and “regenerative” dairy, Alexandre ...

The bill also cites Food & Water Watch’s finding that the statewide increase in factory farming correlates with the closure of 43.5% of dairy farms in the last five years.

Peck said Wisconsin lost half of its dairy farms since the turn of the century and that large, corporate-contracted factory farms currently control 25% of the market, despite accounting for less than ...

It would prevent dairy farms from owning more than 700 cows. The sponsors say the legislation aims to reduce the environmental impacts of factory farming and protect family-operated dairy businesses.

The lefty lawmakers argue large-scale factory farms, ... Dairy farms with 500 or more cows accounted for roughly 11% of all such farms across the state, the USDA’s 2022 census found.

The measure would prohibit New York farms from owning more than 700 cows in an effort to curb factory farming. New York is the nation’s fifth-largest milk producer, with around 3,000 individual ...