Shifting the legal paradigm to recognize nature's rights can support food system reform for the common good.

Industrial animal agriculture relies heavily on pesticide-intensive field crops, making animal exploitation a surprising cause of much US pesticide consumption.

In this guest post, Farm Action examines a great contradiction at the heart of US food and agriculture policy.

Digital tools can gather and interpret data that may enhance farmed animal well-being and productivity. Are such tools beneficial or harmful to the interests of farmed animals?

Factory farm biogas further entrenches industrial animal agriculture and fossil fuel dependence.

The challenging economics of the agriculture industry disadvantage farmers, intensifying environmental and social problems in food and farming.

Keeping sight of all aspects of the common good can help plant-based foods usher in food system transformation.

Consuming animals supports an industry with a range of complex negative impacts to animals, land, water, air, and human wellbeing.

Raising animals for food at industrial scales has a range of negative impacts on animals, environments, and human wellbeing.

Slaughter-free cultivated meat holds great promise for transforming food production but faces scientific and regulatory challenges on its way to store shelves.

Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) harm animals, disrupt rural economies, and pollute the environment. Can we secure a future food system free of CAFOs?

Farmers are at the heart of the overlapping environmental, social, and animal welfare challenges facing the US food system. Statistics reveal insights into the past, present, and future of US farming.

Corporate farming has restructured US food production at the expense of farmers, animals, and the environment.

Focusing the US food system around alternative protein offers simultaneous benefits for environmental health, human health, animal welfare, and the fight against food system inequality.

Food systems nourish us each day, while shaping our impact on animals, people, and the environment.

Industrial agriculture is the dominant method of food production in the US and worldwide. But at what cost?

How can animal advocates shift public perceptions and biases, to unlock the market potential of cultivated meat?

There is fertile common ground between climate activism and food systems activism. It is now critical for both climate campaigns and food system transformation efforts to defund industrial meat.

Industrial agriculture is threatening its own future, and ours along with it. Sustainable plant-based food production can become a way of healing our earth, our communities, and our health.