West Michigan organic farmer Mike O'Brien walks through snowy fields, envisioning the spring day when green grass will sprout for his animals to eat. O'Brien describes watching the chicks delight and ...

Last year, James McWilliams made the inflammatory argument in the New York Times that keeping livestock outdoors can be unsafe for animals and humans, a thesis he now reprises here . Raising animals ...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. – Cedar Hawk Farm’s cows and pigs may be raised as free- range animals, but the terrain they are on seems better suited for mountain goats. The 103-year-old revived family business is ...

British animal welfare body the RSPCA has introduced new requirements for all free-range poultry farmers, sparking a row over ethical standards. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ...

Eggs are back on supermarket shelves in abundance after shortages caused by bird flu. But do you know what labels like caged and barn-laid mean?

Most livestock farmers in Nyandarua County use the free range style where cows are tethered at open farm paddocks during the day and fed in troughs in the evening. At Ndemi in Kipipiri along River ...

I volunteer at a farm sanctuary, where our rescued animals get to live exactly as author Martha Nussbaum would like them to, in what she calls the Capabilities Approach (“People for the enlightened ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - When visiting Zoo Knoxville, you may come across Joe the Sloth right above your head. Joe is considered a free-range animal. “So this is Joe. He is our six-year-old Linnaeus ...

Navigating the grocery aisle is overwhelming, especially when trying to make sense of food labels. Nutrition claims like “sugar-free” or “reduced fat” are hard enough to parse, even when they are ...

I was happy when I read that animal crackers were changing their packaging in a significant way. The old packages showed cookie lions and tigers and bears (oh, my!) in circus cages with bars that kept ...

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