For the first time, a large Florida tomato grower agrees to increase wages and eliminate worker abuse in its fields.

Hardly a week passes when the government department responsible for the safety of our meat isn't forced to issue a mea culpa.

In 2002, Congress passed a law requiring country-of-origin labeling on all seafood, meat, poultry, and produce sold in this country.

Pennsylvania's Agriculture Secretary claimed that labels for rBST-free milk were misleading because you can't test milk to see whether the fake hormone was present.

A proposed rule requires organic cows to graze outdoors, and the FDA covers up an oversight by backdating a recall on contaminated cookies.

Consumer groups and environmentalists are clearly waging a losing battle against genetically modified (GM) crops.

Concentrated animal feeding lots will be free to contaminate waterways, and a compound in plastic bottles might not be safe after all.

Sharks in the Mediterranean Sea risk extinction; the salmonella outbreak reveals the FDA’s shortcomings; and the two surprising sources of destructive gas.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist has finally agreed to meet with representatives from a farmworkers’ organization to discuss the dismal labor conditions in the state’s tomato fields....

If there's one thing the state of Maine has in abundance, it's water.