TARBORO, NC (WNCT) – Advocacy groups joined together to file a lawsuit in federal court against a pig factory located near the Tar River. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Sound ...

Journalist Barry Estabrook knows how to enjoy a juicy heritage pork chop. He'll also be the first to tell you what intelligent, sensitive creatures pigs are. "I had no idea how smart they were until I ...

As my father said, repeatedly when I was devouring huge amounts of “his” food as a child, “Some people eat to live, other people live to eat.” Barry Estabrook apparently lives to eat, and eats to ...

As bad ideas go, it's difficult to beat a scheme to build a factory-type hog barn west of the city of Devils Lake, N.D., on a plot surrounded by surface waters, over an aquifer, and in the watershed ...

DNA sequencing of bacteria found in pigs and humans in rural eastern North Carolina, an area with concentrated industrial-scale pig-farming, suggests that multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...

"That's not a farm, it's a factory... a pig factory," says Antonio Escribano as he stares at a huge metal frame in the middle of a field in Spain. The 58-year-old local winemaker has for months been ...