Many words we use come with hidden baggage. For instance we tend to assume that local, natural and grass-fed foods are good for our health, the environment and animal welfare, while intensive farming ...

The EU aims to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050 – but has been investing four times as much money into carbon-intensive livestock farming than growing plants, research has found ...

Farm animals, especially pigs and poultry, pose a high risk of zoonotic infection. Zoonoses involve numerous types of animals. Industrialized intensive animal farming (IIAF) destroys wild animal ...