Factory Farms Are Inherently Polluting and Vulnerable to Flooding In 2018, Hurricane Florence slammed into the North Carolina coast, flooding tens of thousands of homes — and dozens of factory farms.

The waste produced by livestock in the St. Croix River watershed is equivalent to 3.25 million more people living in the region, according to a study conducted by a retired University of Iowa ...

The Eastern Shore can be home to as many as 36 million chickens at a time, which produce a lot of waste that can threaten the ...

Plans for a new poultry farm which could house 180,000 birds have attracted more than two hundred objections. RH-J Farms has ...

Food & Water Watch Research Director Amanda Starbuck issued the following statement: “Factory farm waste poses a serious threat to public health — especially when it’s flooding your living room.

Virtually all chickens raised for meat in the US are confined in these sprawling warehouses, which bear no resemblance to the small barns of America’s agricultural past. These factory farm ...

They never traveled too far from the farm, knowing that 30 minutes without water, 30 minutes without air circulation or high temperatures can be a life-or-death situation for an animal like the ...

Ever since a six-building poultry farm opened across the street in 2018 — where 336, 000 birds are raised at a time — family gatherings at the Dozhier home have been forced inside.

A Food & Water Watch analysis of USDA and EPA data found that Iowa’s factory farms produce 108 billion pounds of manure every year — that’s 25 times as much as Iowa’s human residents.

Factory farms in Iowa produce 109 billion pounds of waste each year, according to a new report from Food and Water Watch about concentrated livestock operations in the U.S.

Simon proposed building 11 large barns on farm land less than 500 yards from the North Santiam River. The barns would house 580,000 chickens at a time and about 3.5 million per year.