Kenny Torrella

Obesity will go down, electric cars will go up, and a nuclear bomb might just fall.

For more than two years, the US poultry industry has been battling a highly virulent strain of avian influenza, or bird flu. The virus has driven up egg and turkey prices and crossed over from infecting just birds to numerous mammalian species, including sea lions, mice, cats, dairy cows, and, increasingly, humans.

Factory farming is terrible for the environment. Environmentalists are sharply divided over what to do about it.

Advocates for more plants and less meat, like Oatly and the Good Food Institute, are lobbying Congress. Here’s what they want.

Cruelty is built into the pork industry — but it could at least try to prevent fires. On Tuesday in Shine, North Carolina, a barn holding over 1,000 pigs caught on fire.

The VP candidate loves to snuggle baby animals. He’s giving factory farming a progressive sheen.

Factory farming makes hurricanes more dangerous, disgusting, and expensive.

It’s a big deal for the climate — and for the coffee industry at large.

Regulators had a chance to fix the meat industry’s false advertising problem. They failed.

How Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl got the country to launch an impressive vegetarian experiment.