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Viewfinder: Installing a Fence to Keep Wild Boar Out of Denmark

A worker installs a portion of a fence along the Danish border with Germany that is meant to stop wild boar from entering Denmark, on January 31st, 2019, near Tonder, Denmark.

Pacific Standard Staff

Hogs are raised on the farm of Ted Fox on July 25th, 2018, near Osage, Iowa.

News in Brief

Iowa Just Struck Down Its Ag-Gag Law. Where Do These Laws Stand in the Rest of the Country?

Ag-gag laws effectively criminalized undercover investigations for three decades, but now, the courts are turning the tide in favor of animal rights activists.

Emily Moon

A man and his daughters drag their tree off the Snicker's Gap Christmas Tree Farm in Bluemont, Virginia.

Economics

How Buying a Christmas Tree From a Farm Helps Small Farmers Fight Bankruptcy

The millions of Americans who buy a Christmas tree at a farm this year are agritourists too.

Emily Moon

Hogs are enclosed in a barn at a concentrated animal feeding operation.

North Carolinians Want to Hold Companies and Regulators Accountable for Toxic Hog Waste

Hog farms in North Carolina produce 10 billion gallons of untreated, toxic waste each year—and much of it ends up in the state's waterways.

Emily Moon

Paulina Cortes, a community activist from San Jose, gives a protective particulate mask to a farmworker in Stockton, California, on November 16th, 2018.

Though Wildfire Smoke Threatens Farmworkers’ Health, Volunteers Are Being Blocked From Distributing Protective Masks

Amid hazardous air conditions in California, farm management is turning away volunteers attempting to hand out masks to farmworkers.

Jack Herrera

Farmworkers in the south of Oxnard, California, continue to labor underneath dark smoke from the Hill and Woolsey fires burning to the south.

Environment

As Wildfire Smoke Fills the Air, Farmworkers Continue to Labor in the Fields

As fires clogged the air in Southern California, farmworkers continued to work, even as public-school students and others were told to stay home and indoors.

Jack Herrera

Pilots for Waterkeeper Alliance document the effects of Hurricane Florence's flooding on concentrated animal feeding operations in North Carolina on September 17th, 2018.

Environment

Hurricane Florence Has Already Flooded Pits of Toxic Waste in North Carolina

State agencies and environmental groups have recorded several breached or overflowing hog-waste pits and coal ash ponds—and the floodwaters are still rising.

Emily Moon