Industrial Livestock

Feeding Climate Change: A scoring of major meat and dairy companies’ climate-related risk and emissions reporting

In this report, IATP introduces the Meat and Dairy Climate Reporting Scorecard, which confirms that the world’s major meat and dairy companies are falling short on transparent and reliable reporting of their climate risk and GHG emissions — a prerequisite for credible climate action — despite growing investor and regulatory pressure.

Big meat and dairy companies rival major oil companies as sources of climate pollution

In 2018, IATP worked with GRAIN to analyze some of the biggest meat and dairy company’s climate pollution for the first time. Collecting emission and production data from the companies was a challenge, with many not reporting emissions at all, and others not reporting on their full supply chain.

Emissions from major global meat and dairy companies rival those of Saudi Arabia

NEW YORK — The world’s major meat and dairy companies are generating combined greenhouse gas emissions on par with some of the biggest fossil fuel producers, according to new estimates from environmental and food policy experts issued ahead of the COP30 climate talks in Belém, Brazil.

Roasting the Planet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Big Emissions

Roasting the Planet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Big Emissions, a new report co-authored by Foodrise, Friends of the Earth U.S., Greenpeace Nordic, and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, reveals the colossal, yet often overlooked, climate footprint of Big Meat and Dairy.

IATP Comments on Minnesota Animal Feedlot Rule

IATP submitted the following comments on July 21, 2025 to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on its proposed amendment to Minnesota Rules Chapter 7020 governing animal feedlots.

Three questions for nominated EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin

This article is part of a series that poses questions for key Trump Administration nominees for government agencies that intersect with farmers, rural communities and our food system.

Bad climate policy is locking in the factory farm system

Despite a range of climate policies backing factory farm gas, the emerging sector is highly controversial, particularly in rural communities where the highly polluting operations are located.

How to Fight a Factory Farm Episode Four: Cleaning up the CAFO Mess

The rise of factory farms in the U.S. didn't happen by accident. Corporate influence over our political system has created policies that subsidize and incentivize the industrial model. But our food system does not have to be this way.

How to Fight a Factory Farm Episode Three: Communities Fight Back

In South Dakota, Iowa and all across factory farm country, everyday people are stepping up and organizing their neighbors to prevent factory farms from being built in their communities. How to fight a factory farm? People power.

Speaking on Factory Farms

The Congressional staffer moved up in their chair and looked up from the notepad with a quizzical expression. These farmers were asking for more regulation of the meat industry? They didn’t like factory farming and what it was doing to rural communities? And they wanted the government to stop subsidizing this factory farm system for livestock and dairy?