Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two pigs are transported to a slaughterhouse. David Inderlied/dpa Pigs have been kept in appalling conditions at a pig farm in the ...

Mercy for Animals president and CEO Leah Garcés has been an animal rights advocate fighting the factory farming system for more than two decades. But her approach to advocacy changed the day she met ...

Journalist Barry Estabrook knows how to enjoy a juicy heritage pork chop. He'll also be the first to tell you what intelligent, sensitive creatures pigs are. "I had no idea how smart they were until I ...

For decades, Danish pig farming has seemed untouchable. The country of 6 million people produces approximately 28 million pigs per year, and its pork industry is deeply embedded in the economy, ...

Chris Packham joined a woman inside a locked crate, where the vegan activist is spending three weeks living like a pig in protest against factory farming. Michelle Farnham, 28, has locked herself ...

According to the Humane Society of the United States, nearly 100 billion land animals are being slaughtered globally each year. The meat-dependent society that we live in today is causing billions of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A political campaign focused on pig welfare and polluted drinking water in Denmark shows that factory farm ...