"There are no rules in place and nothing to protect the independent producer," Callicrate said. "Industrialized food is killing us. We've never had such a food safety problem as we have now.

"Anybody from a city, in my opinion, who spends a day, a week, maybe even just a few hours on a working farm is going to be quickly disabused of a lot of what they believe," Rowe told AgriTalk radio host Mike Adams last week.

The food and farming sector is not pulling its weight when it comes to tacking climate change and food shortages could be the consequence if we fail to make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 year

Americans now have another excuse for hitting the fast food establishments and getting farther out of shape by adding unwanted weight, and it's allegedly not their fault. The latest health discovery is called "recession pounds," and some researchers

Islam "Isi" Siddiqui is the Obama administration's pick for chief agricultural trade negotiator: senior farm trade official during the Clinton era, Siddiqui has been a vice president since 2001 at the chemical trade lobby CropLife America, a position that

According to the non-profit Earth Pledge, today some 8,000 synthetic chemicals are used throughout the world to turn raw materials into textiles. Domestically, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that one-quarter of all pesticides used nationwide g

This quite neatly encapsulates a whole range of important questions. What kind of diet should we be eating? Should we be raising animals for food? Could changing farming practices reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly? If so, does it matter?

Russian police have arrested three homeless men suspected of killing and eating a 25-year-old and selling parts of his body to a kebab and pie kiosk.

In the last 60 years, our food has increasingly been sourced from far-away places, where it has been grown and harvested much differently than at any time in human history.

But even if a world without roast beef was one in which we all wanted to live (please count me out), we need to think a little harder about what will really work to arrest global warming. Why are Mondays to be free of meat alone?