Iowa is the U.S. state with the most factory farms: 10,830 of them, to be exact. The massive scale of animal agriculture in Iowa produces staggering amounts of manure, more than its fields of corn, ...
The baby girl had been born healthy. Eight pounds, eight ounces. Then came the vomiting and crying. She wasn’t gaining weight ...
A large-scale study of food orders at German university cafeterias suggests that climate, health and animal welfare labels ...
Decades of consolidation have pushed thousands of dairy farms out of business, as rising costs for feed, fertilizer, labor ...
Iowans will soon elect their next governor, and the state’s water quality has become a top issue in the campaign. Democrat ...
The administration’s agenda expands protections for some, but still excludes almost all of the 10 billion land animals farmed ...
Only 2 percent of the ocean appears to benefit substantially from marine conservation areas, challenging a key metric of the ...
House Republicans finally released their newest farm bill proposal, only for an East Coast blizzard to delay plans to start debating it. The House is now set to debate the bill beginning March 3. The ...
A survey taken this past spring shows a majority of Iowans say they have experienced negative environmental impacts from ...
In a new paper, University of Miami Professor Jennifer Jacquet and a team of researchers argue that the industry-funded National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) knew about the harms of beef ...
The meat industry and its proponents worked hard in 2024 — not only to increase sales, but also to rebrand and remain relevant. While overwhelming climate science continues to point out the harmful ...
Soybeans may be a simple protein-rich legume, but they continue to command outsized attention in our political and cultural discourse. The conversation around soy these days comes less from science ...