The rapid growth of industrial poultry farming over the last century has produced large densely connected flocks of poultry birds. Since the 1960s, the number of chickens has gone up sevenfold to ...

Stephane Dahirel doesn't exactly say eat chicken and save the planet, but that is what he's hinting at as he opens a shed door on his intensive farm in Brittany, western France. The 30,000 chickens ...

Effective poultry biosecurity is built on layers of protection, with each one helping to keep pathogens away from birds. Disease prevention starts long before anyone enters a chicken house and there ...

The rapid global expansion of industrial poultry farming is accelerating the spread and evolution of Campylobacter — the world’s leading bacterial cause of diarrhoeal disease, according to a new study ...

There are about 27 billion chickens in the world, a seven-fold increase since the 1960s.Photograph: David Tadevosian/Alamy Industrial chicken farming is accelerating the spread of the world’s most ...

The first time I encountered an intensive “chicken shed” up close I was taken aback by just how massive it was – the huge industrial-looking metal clad building was well over 100 metres long by 25 ...

Air pollution from intensive pig and poultry farms costs England and Wales over £131 million a year, contributing to cases of ...

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 ...

Many words we use come with hidden baggage. For instance we tend to assume that local, natural and grass-fed foods are good for our health, the environment and animal welfare, while intensive farming ...

Agriculture has a huge impact on the environment. Food production takes up more than one-third of Earth’s land, is responsible for one-third of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions and is the largest ...

Poultry farming can provide income through two main business models—raising chickens for meat and keeping hens for egg production. Both models have their own investment requirements, operating cycles ...

Many words we use come with hidden baggage. For instance we tend to assume that local, natural and grass-fed foods are good for our health, the environment and animal welfare, while intensive farming ...