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 ...

This story was originally published by The New Lede. DES MOINES, Iowa — Several hundred Iowa residents gathered in the state ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...