Recent reports indicate that the emerging epidemic could be linked to unsanitary conditions at a factory hog farm.

In the name of food safety, California farmers have been waging a needless war against native wildlife.

The growth of the organic-food market has hit a recession-related roadblock—the downward spiral of overproduction and lower prices.

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?

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

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.

A recent EPA ruling cracks down on particulate emissions—also known as dust—from farms, and agricultural industry groups are up in arms.