- Towards the abolition of animal farming https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/towards-the-abolition-of-animal-farming 27 comments futurology
- Protien technology's to collapse animal farming within 10 years. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12274213 22 comments worldnews
- Thai junta chief gives thumbs-up to Orwell's 'Animal Farm' https://apnews.com/a60071968ba94ea08944f616e3f8490f 4 comments worldnews
- Undercover footage reveals violent animal abuse on farm owned by one of Britain’s largest pig producers http://www.itv.com/news/2018-05-23/undercover-investigation-pig-farm-animal-cruelty/ 239 comments worldnews
- Finnish animal activists' video uncovers hugely overweight farmed foxes https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finnish_animal_activists_video_uncovers_hugely_overweight_farmed_foxes/9777076?origin=rss 7 comments europe
- Microsoft Donates $50,000 to Farmed Animal Sanctuary http://news.microsoft.com/en-au/2015/12/10/a-flood-of-support-for-edgars-mission-upradeyourworldau/ 3 comments microsoft
- Book #30: Animal Farm http://101books.net/2011/11/09/book-30-animal-farm/ 6 comments books
- Hyperconsumption Society: In The Animal Farm http://newsjunkiepost.com/2012/05/10/hyperconsumption-society-in-the-animal-farm/ 3 comments business
- Man offered €300,000 to artificially 'grow' a hamburger, raising questions about the future of animal farming and welfare. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15402552 34 comments worldnews
- More than 20 million farm animals die on way to abattoir in US every year https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/more-than-20-million-farm-animals-die-on-way-to-abattoir-in-us-every-year 24 comments environment
- Free Kindle eBook deals: 1984 and Animal Farm, by George Orwell. https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/koyoze/free_kindle_ebook_deals_1984_and_animal_farm_by/ 12 comments india
- France to ban wild animals from travelling circuses, mink farms 'gradually' https://www.france24.com/en/20200929-france-to-gradually-ban-wild-animals-from-travelling-circuses 3 comments worldnews
- Chinese government reveals draft list of animals which can be farmed for meat https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/10/asia/china-wildlife-law-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html 11 comments worldnews
- EPA exempts farms from reporting pollution tied to animal waste https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/447151-epa-exempts-farms-from-reporting-pollution-tied-to-animal-waste?amp&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=iwar0a8965su7ds4zfv3ekj830qwdsfz2imnmjb9fv013wgzzbvxiokupgglg 72 comments politics
- 'Animal Farm' is an allegory for Core's takeover of Bitcoin. https://derekmagill.com/2018/03/27/bitcoin-farm/ 30 comments btc
- Revisionist History: Is George Orwell’s Animal Farm based on the work of a nineteenth-century Russian writer? by John Reed http://harpers.org/blog/2015/12/revisionist-history/ 7 comments books
- Man pimps out his dog in exchange for sex with farm animals http://www.cbs46.com/story/30355850/sheriff-man-pimped-out-dog-sought-sex-with-farm-animals#ixzz3pmh8bdrm 6 comments nottheonion
- A group that protects the welfare of animals has released an undercover video it claims shows animal abuse at a Texas farm operated by the largest egg producer in the United States. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/us/11/17/humane.society.abuse/index.html?hpt=c2 5 comments worldnews
- Natural Behaviour Is Not Enough: Farm Animal Welfare Needs Modern Answers to Tinbergen’s Four Questions https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/13/6/988 24 comments science
- Man infects pigs with swine flu on farm in Canada -- first documented case of the virus being passed from humans to animals http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6215137.ece 34 comments science
- Vast animal-feed crops to satisfy our meat needs are destroying planet | Intensive and industrial animal farming also results in less nutritious food, it reveals, highlighting that six intensively reared chickens today have the same amount of omega-3 as found in just one chicken in the 1970s. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/05/vast-animal-feed-crops-meat-needs-destroying-planet 563 comments worldnews
- UK Health Minister calls for the end of routinely feeding antibiotics to farm animals to prevent superbugs: "The routine prophylactic use of antibiotics is not acceptable practice." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2296044/superbug-risk-farming-medicines-healthy-animals-shouldnt-given-antibiotics.html 238 comments worldnews
- Till George Orwell, author of the book 1984 and Animal Farm was born in Motihari, Bihar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/george_orwell 18 comments india
- Seafood's antibiotic crisis: Fish farming is creating an animal welfare disaster https://www.salon.com/2020/07/12/seafoods-antibiotic-crisis-fish-farming-is-creating-an-animal-welfare-disaster_partner/ 4 comments worldnews
- Iowa legislature approves bill that makes it a crime for whistleblowers to get into factory farms undercover in order to record video of animal abuse http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/iowa-undercover-livestock-film_n_1312404.html?utm_campaign=030112&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert-green&utm_content=photo&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009 61 comments politics
- An award has been given for a Sciense-based App that helps animal welfare inspectors and inexperienced farm workers to learn the signs of animal emotional wellbeing. https://waitrose.pressarea.com/pressrelease/details/78/NEWS_13/13572 30 comments upliftingnews
- Russia has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N2 bird flu on a farm in the central region of Kostromskaya Oblast that led to the death of more than 660,000 birds, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Friday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-birdflu-russia/russia-reports-virulent-h5n2-bird-flu-at-660000-bird-farm-oie-iduskbn1en1cd 42 comments worldnews
- New Technologies Make Factory Farming More Palatable. That’s Not Good Enough. | The obvious solution to all the environmental damage caused by industrial animal agriculture is to reduce the scale of animal agriculture. We have to feed the world less meat and more plants https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankateman/2023/03/08/new-technologies-make-factory-farming-more-palatable-thats-not-good-enough/?sh=8e6c68a31f25 2 comments environment
- Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, says study. Cutting meat consumption is one of three strategies that an international team of scientists recommends to tackle the rising problem of antibiotic resistance stemming from abundant use in animal farming. http://www.scidev.net/global/livestock/news/eat-less-meat-to-cut-drug-resistance-says-study.html 42 comments science
- MRSA in pork: farming leaders join calls for clampdown on illegal antibiotics use - National Pig Association to raise issue with govt agency in charge of farm animal health following Guardian investigation http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/20/mrsa-in-pork-farming-leaders-join-calls-for-clampdown-on-illegal-antibiotics-use 3 comments worldnews
- Minks 'driven mad by captivity' attack and eat each other in footage from Lithuanian fur farms branded 'appalling' by animal rights activists https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7987245/amp/distressing-video-shows-mink-ripping-fur-farms-lithuania.html?__twitter_impression=true 7 comments worldnews
- Mummified bodies, cannibalism and living in faeces: Shocking footage exposes a French fur farm as animal rights campaigners call for it to be closed down https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7209617/shocking-video-exposes-french-fur-farm-cruelty-animal-rights-campaigners-call-closure.html 51 comments worldnews
- Ecological animalism: eating animals isn't morally wrong because they're sentient beings, it's wrong because industrial factory farming is cruel and exploitative. https://kinder.world/articles/solutions/go-vegan-because-of-mass-exploitation-not-because-eating-animals-is-wrong-20347 1338 comments philosophy
- World's largest amphibian in "catastrophic" decline, with possibly only handful left in wild. Field surveys carried out suggest Chinese giant salamander has all but disappeared from natural habitat. In contrast, millions of animals live in commercial farms, where they're sold to luxury restaurants. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44190126 6 comments worldnews
- France Cracks Down on Factory Farms - A viral video campaign has moved the govt to act. In footage shared widely online, animals writhe in pain as they bleed to death or are dismembered, in violation of rules requiring they be rendered unconscious before slaughter. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-01/france-cracks-down-on-factory-farms 570 comments worldnews
- Game conservation in Africa: Horns, claws and the bottom line - Northern white rhino down to last eight animals. Lions may vanish by 2020. Governments have failed to protect. Can private initiatives—such as tourism, farming, charity—do any better? http://www.economist.com/node/16941705?story_id=16941705 38 comments worldnews
- TIL that George Orwell, writer of "1984" and "Animal Farm," was born in Bihar, India. Later in life he headed the BBC India radio service, designed by Britain to counter Nazi German propaganda, but soon became disgusted by its Imperialistic agenda, which contributed to his anti-establishment books. https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/cwqfv9/til_that_george_orwell_writer_of_1984_and_animal/ 36 comments india
- Animals are developing cancer due to 'significant' changes in the environment caused by humans, scientists claim. Pollution in oceans, radiation from power plants and pesticides from farms may be causing wild animals to develop tumours, according to experts from Arizona State University. https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2018/05/23/humans-causing-cancer-in-animals-through-plastic-waste-scientists_c1762344 11 comments science
- FDA requires antibiotics sales data by species: FDA intends to use the data to examine the link between use of antibiotics in farm animals and the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i20/fda-requires-antibiotics-sales-data.html 3 comments politics
- The Rise in the Number of Farm Animals Being Slaughtered by Having Their Throats Cut While Fully Conscious is "Unacceptable", says former president of the British Veterinary Association - Calls for action to curb throat-cutting without prior stunning, as it can cause unnecessary suffering http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/05/vet-condemns-slaughter-farm-animals 172 comments worldnews