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Factory farming is a common yet controversial practice that allows for the large-scale production of meat products. However, the system often involves the inhumane raising and handling of animals.

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 ...

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 ...

Factory farms in the Bay Area are subjecting animals to unimaginable abuse and neglect. As an animal cruelty investigator, I have seen it with my own eyes. That is why I am voting yes on DD, a ballot ...