Letter: Ruth Tanner sets out the wider environmental and economic ramifications of factory-farmed poultry in response to a letter on chicken feed ...

Even staunch carnivores have gross tales of biting into a piece of chicken cartilage or beef gristle. And now, thanks to years of breeding chickens quickly, food manufactures have inadvertently ...

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their ...

pt. 1. How Chicken Became Essential. 1. Illness, and a bad year ; 2. Better living through chemistry ; 3. Meat for the price of bread ; 4. Resistance begins ; 5 ...

For climate conscious eaters, beef has become the food to avoid. That’s largely thanks to the outsized climate footprint of factory farmed beef, which contributes more greenhouse gases per serving to ...

The modern homesteaders behind Gold Shaw Farm welcome unusually small chickens that hatch on their land.