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According to the Humane Society of the United States, nearly 100 billion land animals are being slaughtered globally each year. The meat-dependent society that we live in today is causing billions of ...

For most pregnant pigs on big factory farms in the U.S., each four-month gestation is spent in a tiny crate. The sows can stand up but can’t turn around or take more than a couple of steps. Slats in ...

Twenty-five hundred cows produce as much waste as a city the size of Miami; many new, so-called "factory" farms are larger than that. Factory farms, officially called Concentrated Animal Feeding ...

Portrait of cute breeder pig with dirty snout, Close-up of Pig's snout.Big pig on a farm in a pigsty, young big domestic pig in stable© Narong Khueankaew/Shutterstock.com In 2018, the African swine ...

Pigs have been kept in appalling conditions at a pig farm in the eastern Spanish province of Teruel, said activists who ...