A pig’s head arrives in front of Christopher Lopez. He knows the drill: cut into the area behind the ears, find two small ...

You may have never heard of benzoic acid. White, odorless and tasteless, it became the preservative of choice around 1900 for ...

This story was originally published by Sentient Media. On July 3rd, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced a new ...

Brazil has soared ahead in beef imports into the United States this year, while other countries scaled back amidst ongoing ...

As a federal appeals court considers whether President Trump’s tariffs over trade deficits are legally justified, the latest ...

Now we know the value the Environmental Protection Agency places on the bedrock foundation that enables the federal ...

A new study finds federal immigration raids caused a 3.1% drop in California’s workforce, as noncitizens statewide stayed ...

In 2016, Tillman County, a politically deep red area in southwest Oklahoma with a population of less than 7,000 and dropping, lost its hospital. Emergency services calls skyrocketed, and health ...

A’s major poultry providers was recently fined for repeated child labor law violations, with children as young as 13 working at an Alabama-based facility. Chick-fil-A, the nation’s largest chicken ...

Eli Hoff is a Gary Marx Journalism Fund intern. In the mid-2000s, a poultry researcher approached James MacDonald, then a branch chief for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research ...

A House of Representatives subcommittee reviewing the coronavirus pandemic found plants owned by five major meatpacking companies accounted for at least 59,000 COVID-19 cases and 269 deaths — much ...

‘We need to find out what’s going on’: Palo Alto County has the second highest cancer incidence among all US counties.