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Distressing news for people who like to eat chickens. Foster Farms of Farmerville, Louisiana has issued a massive recall because some of their chicken breasts are riddled with hard — and maybe even sharp — pieces of plastic.[...]

Remouillage is a super-thrifty stock made from the already boiled-down elements of a first stock, added to fresh vegetables and simmered again to make a flavourful soup base

A highly contagious bird flu is quickly spreading across the United States. The flu has already hit massive farms, exposing millions of animals to the deadly virus. On Friday, Iowa state officials confirmed the presence of...

It’s an ethical conundrum vegetarian pet owners frequently face — isn’t it hypocritical to eschew meat consumption yourself while still supporting animal slaughter by purchasing pet food? Those days of having to choose...

Farmed seafood, wild-caught fish, or livestock: which one is the most environmentally costly to produce? A University of Washington-led study probed that question by scrutinizing 148 life-cycle assessments for animal protein...

What if you could stare into the eyes of the organic chicken you'd be eating in a few months? Chinese company ZhongAn Technology plans to develop facial recognition so users can check in on chickens they've bought...

Dinosaurs no longer roam the planet - unless you count birds. Recent discoveries have revealed many dinosaurs once had feathers, and birds are actually dinosaurs that have evolved over time. But we don't really know how feathers...

As backyard vegetable farming gains in popularity, many people are also choosing to raise chickens. These sweet birds aren't merely great for producing eggs--they eat unwanted insects like slugs, grubs, and caterpillars,...

Do you know the real cost of a steak? We're not talking about the dollars that people shell out to buy one, but rather the environmental cost of creating it? From the water and grain needed to feed livestock to the emissions...

The US industrial farming system is proving to be a stumbling block in the negotiation of a major free trade agreement between the United States and the EU...

China’s meat industry was recently dealt another blow as McDonald’s Japan announced plans to stop importing Chinese chicken for sale in its restaurants...

 Photo © Shutterstock Last year, the USDA made a decision that flew under the radar of many American consumers: the agency announced that China’s meat processing plants were equivalent to those in the US, and that it...

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Holy crap…literally. The environmental impact of the life cycle and supply chain of animals raised for food has been vastly underestimated, and in fact accounts for at least half of all human-caused greenhouse gases...