Kenny Torrella

Many people, when they learn about the horrors of factory farming, become vegetarian or vegan. I’m one of those people, and it stuck — I haven’t eaten meat in 20 years. For most, it doesn’t stick. ...

Russ Kremer is a longtime hog farmer in the Missouri Ozarks, where his 2,000 pigs have plenty of space to roam on his 150 acres. He doesn’t feed them antibiotics, and you won’t find a single animal...

More than 90,000 wild horses and burros make their homes on public lands in the Western US, and each year, the federal government rounds up thousands of them. It typically holds them in large pens ...

Mollie, a 10-month-old pet hamster in the Netherlands, probably runs a lot more than you.  We know this because, a few weeks ago, a Dutch physicist named Thijs — who owns Mollie — rigged up the res...

In February, an animal rights group flew a drone over a farm in California that raises calves destined for dairies and cattle ranches. Double D Dairies, the company that owns the farm, is linked to...

Organic chicken costs on average more than twice as much as conventional chicken, and people buy it in part because they believe that the animals are given a much better life.  If you’re one of tho...

“This is demonic stuff.” “It’s downright abusive.”  “That sounds like torture to me.”  “It’s inhumane.” It causes “physical problems and psychological anguish.” These are quotes describing the pork...

In mid-June, a giraffe named Gracie escaped from a ranch in Texas located about 100 miles west of San Antonio. An intensive search — including helicopters and drones —  is still underway in Texas H...