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.

"I know that pesticides are very dangerous for my son. Not only to his health, but they can also can affect my son's capacity to learn. In Kern county we have a lot of schools near agricultural operations.

An ambitious plan to map the genomes of 10,000 species of vertebrates - animals with backbones - has been announced by scientists.

OTTAWA -- A top-to-bottom scrubbing after a deadly listeriosis outbreak apparently didn't fully cleanse a Maple Leaf Foods plant of mould, slime and meat debris, newly released documents show.

MORRISON, Wis. - All it took was an early thaw for the drinking water here to become unsafe. There are 41,000 dairy cows in Brown County, which includes Morrison, and they produce more than 260 million gallons of manure each year, much of which is spr

Entangling anti-choice politics with health care reform, an amendment was added at the last minute to the health care reform bill that passed the House of Representatives. The Stupak-Pitts amendment takes the incredibly audacious step of prohibiting priv

The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA), H.R. 1549/S. 619 would phase out, within two years of enactment, the common practice of continually feeding antibiotics important in human medicine to non-sick food animals.

Burger King tells its customers, "Have it your way." For a Connecticut breast cancer survivor, having it her way would mean the fast-food chain would post warnings in all its restaurants about the carcinogen in its grilled chicken.

Most doctors commonly warn their patients never to take antibiotics if they are not actually sick. Yet that is exactly what is happening on industrial farms where food animals often are given low doses of antibiotics over long

The Health Care for America Now (HCAN) "Sick of It" anti-insurance campaign focuses on rich health insurance CEOs making millions and living in luxury while middle class families are struggling to pay medical bills, going bankrupt, and losing their homes.