VIDEO: Perdue Chicken Factory Farmer Speaks Out
After 22 years of raising chickens for Perdue, factory farmer Craig Watts took the unprecedented step of inviting a video crew to document his operation.
After 22 years of raising chickens for Perdue, factory farmer Craig Watts took the unprecedented step of inviting a video crew to document his operation.
In letter to EU Trade Commissioner, groups write that leaked TTIP chapter shows ‘agribusinesses in the driving seat’ at expense of fair, safe food.
An EU-U.S. trade deal currently being negotiated behind closed doors puts corporate profits and trade interests above fair and safe food for consumers, a trio of groups charged Wednesday. Friends of the Earth Europe, Minnesota-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), and UK-based Compassion in World Farming outline their concerns
A disjointed system of food inspection means about 48 million Americans contract a food-borne illness per year.
In the U.S., the push to label foods produced with genetically-modified organisms has created a war of attrition between activists that demand full disclosure concerning the content of publicly-sold foods and an industry determined to sell the safeness of GMO-foods. With more than 60 genetically-modified variations of crops currently approved for
Iowa Rep. Steve King blames ‘vegan lobby’ in fight over Farm Bill’s ban on production standards for interstate agricultural goods.
WASHINGTON (AP) —The future of state laws that regulate everything from the size of a hen's cage to the safe consumption of Gulf oysters may be at stake as farm bill negotiators work to resolve a long-simmering fight between agriculture and animal welfare interests. The House Agriculture Committee added language to its version of the farm bill
The new study “provides an important addition to the growing body of evidence for undue food industry influence on food safety policy.”
In another sign of undue corporate influence, a new study has found widespread conflicts of interest by the people deciding whether food additives are determined to be "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) over the past 15 years. The study was published on Wednesday in JAMA Internal Medicine. The team of researchers looked at 451 voluntary
The amendment would overturn bans on slaughtering horses and rules requiring the regulation of puppy mills, and has drawn food safety concerns.
First it was large-scale cuts to social welfare programs that prompted harsh criticism of the U.S. farm bill, the piece of legislation that addresses food prices, soil erosion, national hunger and a variety of other food-related issues. Now, it’s animal welfare. When the U.S. House of Representatives continues hashing out the contents of the