Hog farmers are being warned of dangerous fires and explosions that can start from highly concentrated methane gas in the form of bubbling foam oozing out of pig manure. Methane gas in the excrement ...

It is said that nature abhors a vacuum. Well, according to this report from the Minnesota Daily, nature also abhors factory farms. Large midwestern hog farms have for the last few years been battling ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A specter haunts the Midwest’s factory-scale hog farms: the specter of explosive ...

In what may be the most spectacularly disgusting story of the month, Grist reports on a phenomenon that has killed thousands of pigs on giant industrial hog farms. Farms (OK, “farms”) throughout the ...

North American pig farmers have reported several occurrences in the past year of large volumes of black foam rising from under slatted floors which can produce hazardous gases. As the gases are ...

As if anyone needed another reason to stay away from pig pens, pig farms have been exploding. The culprit is a highly-explosive form of gray mush that turns up, from time to time, in ditches full of ...