When Elena Tova rescued a sick pig on a whim nearly 15 years ago, she had never heard of the concept of an animal sanctuary. “Sanctuaries didn’t exist in Spain. The word didn’t exist,” she says, ...

Agriculture is a massive US industry that generates hundreds of billions of dollars for the economy each year. Livestock is a major player in the agriculture industry on both a domestic and global ...

The federal government mostly leaves policy about the housing and treatment of farm animals to the states, but there is increasing interest in a more active federal role, perhaps through the next farm ...