Consumer advocates for sustainable, healthy food are fighting with farmers, not because either picked a fight with the other, but because the knowledge gap between them has grown so expansive.

Looking at today's society it seems clear that when it comes to our food and nutrition, our priorities are out of whack. We need a wake up call and Food, Inc. is just that.

We've been blaming consumers for their desire to eat lots of meat as an excuse for the unsafe and inhumane practices at CAFOs, which contribute to environmental degradation, our healthcare crisis and impact the safety of our food.

The Mexican meat industry generates 130 million tons of fecal and urine matter each year, which often ends up in rivers and on coasts causing terrible environmental damage.

Cargill, ADM, Monsanto, Tyson and Smithfield are probably breaking the law, and that law needs to be enforced.

The name Factory Farm Flu 1 is less than accurate; many diseases have been transmitted from animals to humans by Confined Animal Feeding Operations. But we have to start somewhere.

Dr. Nestle: "My conclusion: the grilled chicken option is about marketing, not health. The proof? Oprah talked about it."

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Oprah has decided to bolster one of America's worst offenders when it comes to support for factory farming, KFC, by giving away two pieces of chicken to every human in America.

As I wrote earlier this week, the virus formerly known as the swine flu (although the CDC continues to say that indeed the H1N1 strain does, as initia...

It seems that the New York Times, in its desperation to sell papers, fell into the trap of story building over truth-finding.

What we are troubled by is Palin's jovial tone as these creatures are being slaughtered -- what she calls "a little bit of levity."

Yesterday, California voters voted overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 2, a historic move that brings animals legal rights in the land of factory f...

That ringing you hear is the sound of the death knell for the "don't ask, don't smell" era of factory farming.

PHILADELPHIA - A New York restaurant has filed a potential class-action suit over alleged price-fixing in the egg industry, days after the Justice Dep...