A Vox reader asks: Why is factory farming still around? Factory farming — the intensive confinement of chickens, pigs, and cows on a massive scale — developed in the second half of the 20th ...

Even if the worldwide agriculture does start adding red algae to cow feed, it would only address ... polluted water from farm runoff, the considerable water usage (about 1,800 gallons) required ...

Factory farms where cows don’t have names and are grown much faster, fattened in feedlots with no pastures in sight, are better for the environment. Grass-fed cows grow more slowly than those ...

It might actually be an old dairy cow. It's rough being a dairy cow at a factory farm. You have a nearly 50/50 chance of getting an udder infection because conditions are so unsanitary ...