Decades of industrial agriculture have caused environmental and social damage across the globe. Soils have deteriorated and plant and animal species are disappearing. Landscapes are degraded and small ...

Thirty years ago, Richard Nixon’s secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Earl Butz, relayed a message to farmers that transformed American agriculture: “Get big or get out.” ...

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This article originally appeared on Undark. Today's factory farms are monuments to humanity's unprecedented technological sophistication and our seemingly limitless capacity for cruelty. What's more, ...