As long as there are children going to bed hungry and arriving to school hungry, there is no such thing as a surplus.

Perhaps some things in life shouldn’t be cheaper by the dozen. A North Carolina chef takes a look at the real cost of food—and flavor.

A new piece of federal legislation has sustainable-food advocates worried that backyard gardening and farmers markets are under siege. Are they really?

A whole new approach is the subject of the third Senate hearing on school nutrition re-authorization.

The new administration is making great strides in food policy—except when it comes to the issue of genetic modification.

After 15 years of asking, a Florida farmworkers’ group has finally gotten the governor to condemn abusive practices in the state’s tomato fields.

The Humane Society plans to put the squeeze on the fast-food giant over its use of eggs from caged chickens.

A major new study links consumption of red meat to premature death. But is beef really to blame?

Roughly 70 percent of the total antibiotics used in the United States are consumed by healthy farm animals—but a new bill would restrict the drugs’ use to cases where the animal is sick....

For the first time, the EPA is going to enforce federal pollution regulations governing chicken manure—and agribusiness interests don’t seem happy about it.