MILLIONS of pigs are being raised for slaughter in new high-rise buildings the size of Big Ben across cities in China. On the outskirts of Ezhou in the eastern Hubei Province, stands the ...

The groups also asked that the government agree to a request from the Mayan peoples for a moratorium on all approvals of new industrial pig farms and expansions until the issues of the rights of the ...

The groups also asked the government to agree to a request from 21 Mayan communities for a moratorium on all approvals of new industrial pig farms in the states of Yucatán, Campeche and Quintana Roo.

All over the world, conditions for the overwhelming majority of farm animals are getting worse. Intensive and industrial pig, poultry, and beef/dairy cattle production factories are getting larger, ...

The modern farms, helped by imported modern genetics as well as scientific management, are expected to greatly increase annual piglets per sow from the current 16 toward the 25 to 30 pigs produced ...

Award-winning journalist David Kirby's gripping new book, Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment, sets out to expose industrial ...

The multi-storey pig farms see the animals carted into industrial sized lifts and sent to higher floors where they reproduce and are fattened up. Each floor is dedicated to a different part of ...