A new global assessment has found that factory farming is shortening human lifespans, inflicting severe animal suffering, and ...

Our food system is increasingly dominated by intensive animal agriculture known as factory farms, which are designed to produce as much meat as possible, cheaply and quickly. Nearly all animals farmed ...

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 ...

A recent report has identified the eating and farming of animals as the single most risky human behaviour in relation to pandemics. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, however, is ...

By Milliam Murigi Factory farming is not only taking a toll on animal welfare, it is also shortening human lifespans and ...

Factory farming is a troubling system that produces high quantities of meat at a low cost, often causing profound animal ...

U.S. Rep. Alma Adams’s bill to help farmers convert to more climate-friendly crops will likely help patients too. I support public health officials who are trying to increase testing for H5N1 and ...

The Nebraska Department of Agriculture is asking farmers and others to keep an eye on their flocks as avian influenza spreads. (Stock photo by Gins Wang/Getty Images) As a nursing instructor in ...

Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialised farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...

As a physician, I am closely following a bird flu outbreak that is hitting our Central Valley dairy farms hard, especially since the California Department of Health reports at least 26 human cases.

As early as the Neolithic period (circa 3900 BC), the domestication of animals likely led to the development of diseases including measles and smallpox. Since then, zoonotic disease has led to other ...