Animal Welfare

Andrew Abrahams

At This Small, Family-Run Dairy, Animal Welfare Comes First

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02.25.19
Marc Mousseau of Island Creek Plantation and his Ossabaw gilt “Keira”. (Photo © Jeannette Beranger/The Livestock Conservancy)

Can Heritage Pork Scale Up?

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02.05.19
Gorazd Trušnovec, a professional beekeeper in Ljubljana, tends to the beehives on the balcony of the offices of the prime minister of Slovenia

What the U.S. Could Learn From Slovenia About Protecting Bees

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02.04.19

Costco’s 100 Million Chickens Will Change the Face of Nebraska

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12.11.18

While Small Dairy Farms Shut Down, This Mega-Dairy Is Shipping Milk to China

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11.27.18
A chicken processing plant worker on the line. (Photo credit: Earl Dotter for the Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center.)

Workers Fear Injury as Administration Clears Way for Faster Chicken Slaughter

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11.07.18
Dairy farm photo by Darinburt on Istockphoto.

What’s Behind the Crippling Dairy Crisis? Family Farmers Speak Out.

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11.05.18
Lagoons outside a factory farm in North Carolina. Photo CC-licensed by Waterkeeper Alliance.

A New EPA Rule Would Allow Factory Farms to Avoid Reporting Air Pollution

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11.02.18

A Decade Later, Another ‘Cage-Free’ Measure is on the California Ballot

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10.25.18
Elwood and Nora Pahi. (Photo © Thosh Collins)

Navajo Beef Brings Traditional Practices and Modern Business to Ranching

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10.08.18
pigs being transported by truck

Why Are Sows in Factory Farms Dying in Surprising Numbers?

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10.01.18
Hogs inside an Iowa concentrated feedlot operation. (Photo credit: U.S. EPA)

Iowans Unite to Stop Hog Farms From Polluting Their Community

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09.27.18
dairy farmer

Is the Second Farm Crisis Upon Us?

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09.10.18

Building the Mecca of Heritage Poultry in Kansas

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08.23.18
Cowhands drive the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas. (Photo by Carol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress)

Everything’s Bigger in Texas—Except Its Support for Small Farmers

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07.23.18
fish labeling

Fish Fraud is Real. What Should We Eat?

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06.29.18
A North Carolina hog CAFO and its waste lagoons. (Photo courtesy of Waterkeeper Alliance)

In North Carolina, New Pollution Allegations Add to Residents’ Woes Over Factory Farms

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06.26.18
Sarah Flack. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Flack)

The Grazing Expert Helping Farmers Build Resilient Ecosystems

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06.18.18