I was grateful to read Nicholas Kristof's article about industrial pig farming in the Feb. 23 edition. It is becoming increasingly clear how interconnected the web of life is on our fragile planet and ...

In the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia, locals have been contending with foul smells, dangerous drinking water and a deteriorating natural environment for years. The alleged culprit: industrial ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The 2009 swine flu strain didn’t turn out to be as deadly as originally feared.

DNA sequencing of bacteria found in pigs and humans in rural eastern North Carolina, an area with concentrated industrial-scale pig-farming, suggests that multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...

Factory farming is a particularly wicked problem to solve. It’s a moral atrocity, involving the confinement and slaughter of hundreds of billions of animals globally each year. It’s a blight on the ...

LA PAZ, Mexico— The Center for Biological Diversity and Greenpeace Mexico submitted a formal request today urging the Mexican government to respect the sovereign right of Indigenous communities under ...

Thomas Fleischman has been obsessed with pigs for the better part of the last decade. Tracing the history of East Germany’s birth in the immediate aftermath of World War II to its sudden collapse in ...