A recent study published in the current issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspective brings a new concern to the growing number of CAFOs---concentrated animal feeding operations—dominating the nation's conventional meat and dairy industry: high blood pressure.

A New York federal court has ruled that the FDA cannot delay its regulatory proceedings on determining the safety of antibiotics including penicillin and tetracyclines routinely used in industrial farming livestock animal feed.

In just 50 years, the chicken industry has transformed itself in fantastic fashion: Skyrocketing 1,400 percent from 580 million birds to the nearly nine billion today, while the number of independent farmers has been virtually wiped out—the more than 1.6 million in the 1950s have been replaced by fewer than 30,000 farms today, most of which are large concentrated factory farms, according to a new report by the Pew Environmental Group titled Big Chicken: Pollution and Industrial Poultry Production in America.”

It's been 3 years since PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) made headlines with one of its most controversial campaigns: the animal protection organization offered $1 million to the scientist(s) that could create lab-grown meat by June 30, 2012.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he will only eat animals he actually kills himself this year in a self-imposed 'personal challenge."