Factory farming is not only taking a toll on animal welfare, it is also shortening human lifespans and inflicting irreversible damage on the environment, a new report reveals. Dubbed the Factory ...

Jonathan Birch is at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. My three-year-old son adores animals. He has a farm in his ...

Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialised farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...

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