As long as we're scrutinizing our health care system, we also need to look at the way modern agribusiness madly overuses antibiotics.

A plan to identify animals and track them in case of a disease outbreak was widely opposed by farmers and ranchers.

Links between climate change and food policy are an important element in the debate over what to do about the rising levels of greenhouse gases.

A group in Rhode Island has created a fertility bank for heritage livestock, freezing embryos in preparation for an outbreak of disease or the next food trend.

Jonathan Safran Foer uses his literary gifts to give the reader some very visceral, very gruesome descriptions of factory farming and the slaughterhouse.

The World Trade Organization will investigate U.S. labeling rules on cattle and swine and European poultry restrictions.

Singling out meat-eating as harmful to the environment is overly simplistic. Encouraging judicious choices for all types of food is a better approach.