Industry

Reported

What Happens When Big Ag Comes to Town

Big Ag didn't just put small farmers out of business. They changed a way of life in rural America and made it harder to fight climate change.

Food•20 min read

Reported

Expansion of Cattle Farms Leads to Rise of Armed Conflict in Colombia

A special investigation into the expansion of cattle farming in Colombia has found a connection between illegal deforestation and the rise of armed conflict in the region.

Food•5 min read

Perspective

Not All Food Waste Is Created Equal

Wasted food is a serious problem, especially in America where landfills are overflowing with rotting food. Among that waste, especially on the consumer front? Animals.

Food•7 min read

Explainer

Inside the Dark World of Rabbit Farming

Rabbit is often celebrated as the "most sustainable" meat, but it emits more carbon per kilogram than both chicken and pork and causes millions of animals to suffer.

Food•6 min read

Explainer

U.S. Department of Agriculture: Who Does the USDA Really Serve?

Since its inception in 1861, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's primary function was to serve the interests of farmers, often at the expense of public health and the environment.

Food•9 min read

Perspective

Why Hack the World’s Largest Meat Company?

A group of hackers temporarily shut down operations at JBS, the world's largest meat company, disrupting the U.S. beef supply and leaving us with more questions than answers.

Food•3 min read

Perspective

Is Ethically Produced Dairy Even Possible?

At the UK's only slaughter-free dairy farm, calves are allowed to be with their mothers, and spent cows roam around in peace. Sound too good to be true? We took…

Food•5 min read

Feature

Animal Farmers Respond to the Rise of Plant-Based Meat

For decades, small farmers have been suffering at the hands of industrial agriculture. Now, some fear the growing popularity of plant-based foods could give big meat producers even more power.

Food•5 min read

Perspective

The Future of Food Has to Be More Sustainable—Here’s Why

Our current food system is fueled by factory farming. That needs to change—and fast—if we are going to feed 10 billion people by 2050.

Food•12 min read

Perspective

Pork Industry Veterinarian Speaks Out

Each time footage is released from pig farms, the industry manages to brush it off as an "isolated incident." But Dr. Alice Brough says these incidents are standard practice.

Food•7 min read

Feature

The Pet Food Industry Is Cutting Ties with Animal Agriculture

If cats and dogs were a country, they would be the fifth-largest meat consumer in the world, according to PLOS One. Could cultured meat help the pet food industry clean…

Food•7 min read

Reported

Farmers Face Frostbitten Cows, Dead Calves, and Harsh Financial Consequences

Over the last few weeks, severe winter storms have pelted the U.S. agriculture industry with problems, killing hundreds of thousands of animals.

Food•4 min read

Reported

Factory Farming Is on the Rise, but Communities Are Fighting Back

In the absence of political leadership, grassroots organizations and NGOs are taking on factory farms themselves, building on growing public support for less intensive animal agriculture.

Food•8 min read

Perspective

“I Remember Their Eyelashes”: Why I Chose to Stop Consuming Dairy

The ditch dairy argument can be a tough pill to swallow. This is not meant to shame anyone, simply to share my story of why I chose to stop consuming…

Food•9 min read

Reported

The Rise of an Empire: How China Achieved Global Fishing Dominance

With as many as 800,000 boats in the water, some as far afield as Argentina, China is unmatched in the size and reach of its fishing vessels. Ian Urbina reports…

Food•13 min read

Explainer

McDonald’s Animal Cruelty: Secrets of the Fast Food Industry

McDonald's animal cruelty record is far from perfect. The company has been under fire after multiple investigations exposed cruelty at its chicken suppliers.

Food•6 min read

Explainer

Live Animal Export: How Many Animals Die During Transport?

Live animal export is one of the single greatest threats to animal welfare. Every year, billions of animals are crammed into cargo holds, and many don't make it out alive.

Food•8 min read

Perspective

This $22-Billion Industry Suffers from a Serious Lack of Oversight

The live animal trade is thriving. Every day, millions of farmed animals are shipped around the world, panic-stricken and disoriented on their way to slaughter.

Food•4 min read

Perspective

Veganism in India: Goodmylk Founder Abhay Rangan Weighs In

The success of Rangan’s business lends credence to his steadfast belief that “what is good from an ethical standpoint is often what is good for [business] too.”

Food•7 min read

Reported

Activists Target Smithfield Foods—The World’s Largest Pork Producer

By rescuing animals from captivity and documenting slaughterhouse facilities, activists aim to disrupt oppressive institutions—like factory farms—that harm both human and nonhuman animals and the planet.

Food•5 min read

Perspective

Will Development Banks Finally Agree to Divest from Factory Farms?

To address the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the ongoing threat of zoonotic disease, advocates must turn their calls for divestment to the factory farming industry.

Food•4 min read

Analysis

Would Slower Growth Make Life Better for Farmed Chickens?

Animal advocates criticize the painful effects of rapid growth in chickens. But poultry producers often draw attention away from the issue, touting new innovations in their breeding methods and general…

Food•5 min read

Explainer

Outgrowing the Chicken House: A Brief History of the Modern Broiler Industry

Today, corporate agriculture raises broiler chickens by the billions, producing birds that have not only outgrown their own bodies but are capable of outgrowing the industry itself.

Food•9 min read

Analysis

Bringing Big Ag’s Right to Harm to the U.S. Supreme Court

Two couples in rural Indiana worked for decades to build the American dream—and then watched it slip away to a massive pig farm. They refuse to give up.

Food•11 min read

Reported

“A Huge Lack of Transparency”: The Problem With USDA’s $19-Billion Coronavirus Relief Program

Millions of farmed animals are being killed as the industry receives billions in COVID-19 federal aid. Advocates want to know where the money is going.

Food•9 min read

Perspective

Taking on Canada’s Horse Meat Industry

Like the rest of animal agriculture, Canada's horse meat industry thrives in secrecy. Advocates are working tirelessly to shut it down.

Food•4 min read

Perspective

Let’s Talk About KFC’s ‘Black Power’ Drumstick

Why is it bad optics? Because the association of Black people and fried chicken is a pernicious racial stereotype that asserts itself over and over again.

Food•5 min read

Perspective

Leather: Cruel, Not Cool

Leather production poses a triple threat—it inflicts unimaginable cruelty on animals, harms and kills tannery workers, and destroys vital ecosystems.

Food•6 min read

Perspective

Let’s Forge a New Normal for Farmed Animals

Millions of farmed animals were needlessly put to death during the pandemic. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Food•8 min read

Perspective

Gassed, Shot, and Suffocated: How Meat Companies Are Killing Farmed Animals During COVID-19

When slaughterhouses shut down, producers had nowhere to send their animals. As a result, tens of millions of animals were killed and disposed of, posing a serious threat to humans…

Food•4 min read

Perspective

Tyson Foods Kills 2.4 Billion Animals Every Year. Can It Do Good, Too?

As a leading meat producer, Tyson has the potential to do much harm but also much good. It could annually end the exploitation of billions of animals by expanding its…

Food•6 min read

Perspective

Pork Industry’s COVID-19 Response Demonstrates Innate Brutality of Factory Farming

The culling of pigs during COVID-19 hardly compares in scale to the misery of the 75 million pigs currently held on U.S. factory farms, or the anguish of the more…

Food•5 min read

Perspective

The New York Times Swapped an Image of Animal Carcasses for an Abstract Illustration. But Why?

Mainstream media refuses to document the food system truthfully and accurately. It’s our responsibility to hold them accountable.

Food•8 min read

Perspective

COVID-19 Revealing Inherent Cruelty of Agribusiness

During the coronavirus crisis, agribusiness’s callous treatment of its workers and blatant disregard for animal welfare has reached a new low.

Food•4 min read

Perspective

Marketing Masculinity: The Meat of the Matter

The connection between meat consumption and masculinity is not new. What is new is the increasing influence of prominent vegan men who speak up about the benefits of their diets.

Food•7 min read

Perspective

Suffocating Healthy Farmed Animals During Pandemic Is Not “Euthanasia”

Using the term “euthanasia,” which literally means "a good death," to describe the mass killing of overpopulated farmed animals is a misnomer. They suffer horrific deaths.

Food•4 min read

Reported

PETA Buys Shares In Slaughterhouses

PETA plans to use its shareholder position to influence Tyson, Smithfield, and others to switch to packing only plant-based meats.

Food•2 min read

Explainer

Farmed Animals: The Exploitation of Animals on Factory Farms

Farmed animals represent an ever-growing number of animals that are raised, exploited, and slaughtered for fashion and food. These are animals who have few rights and zero freedom.

Food•23 min read

Reported

Farmed Animals Culled En Masse as COVID-19 Outbreaks Halt Meat and Dairy Production

With COVID-19 closures impacting meat and dairy supply chains, the industry faces a choice: stay open and risk the lives of its employees, or shut down and force farmers to…

Food•3 min read

Reported

Family Farms and the Rise of Industrial Agriculture

Industrial farming practices are making it increasingly more difficult for independent farmers to sustain on their own.

Food•8 min read

Reported

Dairy Industry Spends Millions on “Education Programs” for Children

In Australia, children as young as age five—who are naturally inclined to love and care about animals—are being "educated" by the dairy industry.

Food•8 min read

Reported

Big Ag Has Almost Every Advantage. Animal Outlook Is Taking It Back.

Animal Outlook, formerly Compassion Over Killing, has revolutionized animal cruelty investigations, going deep undercover to bring the truth to light.

Food•6 min read

Reported

The USDA Is Gutting Pig Slaughterhouse Rules. These Groups Are Fighting Back.

Pig slaughterhouses are now allowed to operate slaughter lines at any speed they choose. But how can an industry responsible for so much suffering be expected to regulate itself?

Food•4 min read

Reported

Cooked Alive: Transport Animals Face Deadliest Temperatures Yet

Heat waves aren’t just a people problem. When food, water, shade, and safe transport are scarce, farm animals are often the first ones to suffer.

Food•8 min read

Perspective

Hypocrisy on the Highway: Where Are Those Animal Transport Trucks Heading and Why Don’t We Talk About It?

Most people consider themselves animal lovers and take any opportunity to admire them, including as they pass by in transport trucks on the highway. Not many people, though, question where…

Food•8 min read

Reported

Calf Life: A Story of Opioids, Export, and Abuse

Journalist Sophie Kevany reports from the front lines of the dairy industry, where there are suggestions cows might need opioids to cope with the stress of calf separations.

Food•7 min read

Perspective

We Now Know Fish Feel Pain. Why Continue Harming Them In The Billions?

The science is clear: fish can feel pain and want to avoid it. Can we continue to ignore the facts in the face of killing as many as one trillion…

Food•4 min read

Reported

Animal Rebels Occupy Cargill-Backed London Hedge Fund

Activists with Animal Rebellion risked arrest storming CarVal offices to expose companies profiting the most from climate change.

Big Meat•3 min read

Reported

Advocates Agree: Increasing Kill Line Speeds Puts Animals and Workers at Risk

In the name of efficiency and productivity, kill line speeds are increasing in North American slaughterhouses. This is very bad for the animals, and bad for the people, too.

Food•4 min read

Feature

The True Cost of Producing the World’s Most Expensive Coffee

New investigation from Moving Animals reveals the terrifying conditions of caged civets, whose feces are used to produce the world’s most expensive cup of coffee.

Food•4 min read