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 ...

For decades, the industry has recruited immigrants and refugees to perform the dangerous job of cutting America’s meat. Now, a small but growing number of plants are employing visa workers.

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

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 ...

This story was originally published by Sentient Media. When Brent Hershey entered the hog business, he was told that every pork producer in America uses gestation crates on their farm. Gestation ...

Articles in this project are edited by Carey Gillam, managing editor of The New Lede. Faced with a startlingly high cancer rate in the key U.S. farm state of Iowa, public health leaders are taking the ...