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Distressing news for people who like to eat chickens. Foster Farms of Farmerville, Louisiana has issued a massive recall because some of their chicken breasts are riddled with hard — and maybe even sharp — pieces of plastic.[...]

Your tax dollars at work - I read this three times and it still looks like a word salad. But there is a disturbing question - why?

Regenerative farming is the current zeitgeist in the fight for sustainable farming practices. It provides both a connection with the deep history of land management and a template for sustainable food production for the future....

Who’d a thunk it, forest management might be a good idea?~ctm Treatments may reduce loss in future droughts and bark beetle epidemics University of California – Davis Thinning forests and conducting prescribed burns may...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently unveiled label prototypes for food with genetically modified ingredients. The fight for labels was controversial, but in 2016, Congress passed a bill in favor of...

The United States Department of Agriculture has officially withdrawn an Obama-era rule that would have established basic animal welfare standards for organic meat, eggs, and dairy products...

United States government workers have been instructed to modify the terminology they use when talking about climate change, now that Donald Trump's at the helm...

Only around one percent of U.S. cropland is dedicated to organic farming even though consumer appetite for organic foods reached an estimated $13.4 billion last year. The reason more farmers haven't converted to organic farming...

A group appointed by the U.S. government tried to destroy a Silicon Valley start-up after concluding that the plant-based food company was "a crisis and major threat to the future" of the $5.5-bn-a-year egg industry in the...

When we think about climate change and sources of pollution, fossil fuels and dirty industries are the culprits that usually dominate the conversation...

Two tiny endangered monkeys died at a Louisiana zoo last week after being left out in the cold overnight, as temps dipped into the 30s F. A third monkey survived the exposure, and the zoo caretaker responsible for the deaths...

Two tiny endangered monkeys died at a Louisiana zoo last week after being left out in the cold overnight, as temps dipped into the 30s F. A third monkey survived the exposure, and the zoo caretaker responsible for the deaths...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture could finally add environmental concerns to their list of dietary recommendations. According to the Associated Press, the advisory panel in charge of dietary guidelines admits that a sustainable...

Last week, the USDA approved a genetically engineered potato, known as the Innate Potato. Created and trademarked by Simplot, the new potato "has 40% less bruise" than regular potatoes and doesn't turn brown after it's cut,...

The Netherlands is the latest country, after Russia, Tasmania and Mexico, to say no to Monsanto. Starting from the end of 2015, the sale of glyphosate-based herbicides to private parties will be prohibited due to a recent...