Polish horse meat-contaminated beef patties produced in Ireland and consumed in the UK? Just the tip of the horseberg. The news that Burger King has been selling horsemeat-contaminated Whoppers in the UK comes just before Oklahoma debates making horse slaughter legal.

* Corn industry fires back at sugar industry * Accuses sugar industry of false advertising * Legal tussle dates back to ...

UPDATE: Here's a list of supermarkets that received Cargill meat that is now being recalled: Hannaford, Stores in ME, MA, NH, NY and VT Country Ma...

The meat industry, like much else in U.S. agriculture, has consolidated rapidly over the last half-century. Four giant companies produced 83.5 percent of U.S. beef as of 2007. It is in this context that the mobile slaughterhouse makes local slaughter available and affordable to small farmers.

When our food is at risk we are all at risk. Over the last thirty years, we have witnessed a massive consolidation of our food system, leading to the loss of millions of family farmers, the destruction of soil fertility, the pollution of our water, and health epidemics.

This duality of sustainable food advocates on one end and industrial food giants on the other shows the growing power of each of the poles of our food system.

SPRINGDALE, Ark. -- An Arkansas meat processing plant that was linked to a salmonella outbreak this year is producing ground turkey again, meat Giant ...

Mercy For Animals, known for exposing instances of animal cruelty across the country, has just released its newest undercover footage. The video, whic...

If you eat any processed or packaged food, or anything from a typical restaurant or café, you can guarantee that Monsanto or Cargill played a role in those foods somewhere along the line.

Currently, the USDA tests meat and poultry products for Salmonella and has limits in place for how much Salmonella can be in any particular testing sample of meat. But the limits are woefully inadequate, and they aren't enforceable anyway.