For livestock owners, the work is never finished. Before daylight breaks and long after it fades, there are always calves to ...

On November 5, 2002, voters in Florida approved the first US law prohibiting the use of small “gestation crates” to house pregnant sows. Such crates are but one example of the extreme animal ...

Farmed animals undergo breeding, raising, transport & slaughter. Each phase offers the opportunity for cruelty or compassion. AWI analyzes livestock practices and works to inform policymaking in a ...

South Carolina has a host of regulations governing the production of farm animals. These rules protect the people of the Palmetto State by, for example, prohibiting the importation of cattle and ...

Scientists have come up with a system of measuring animal welfare that enables reliable comparison across different types of pig farming. Cambridge University scientists have come up with a system of ...

As a teenager in the 1970s, I worked on a typical dairy farm in England. Fifty cows grazed on lush pastures for most of their long lives, each producing about 12 liters of milk daily. They were loved ...

The Farm Bill passed by the U.S. House last month includes a section that undermines a Massachusetts law aimed at preventing ...