Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year ...

Intensive animal farming may increase the risk of future pandemics, a new study has found. The findings go against the conventional wisdom that industrialized farming reduces the risk of disease ...

Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialised farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...

Emma Garnett does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Alison Caffyn received grant funding from the Economic Social Research Council. The first time I encountered an intensive “chicken shed” up close I was taken aback by just how massive it was – the ...