In the summer of 2015, an unlikely acquisition upended the American meat business: Perdue Farms, one of the nation’s biggest vertically integrated poultry companies, purchased mission-driven pork, ...

This potato species has sustained Indigenous people in the American Southwest for 11,000 years. What does its future hold?

Over 12 million people work in American restaurants, and only 1.3 percent percent of them are union members.

The Farm Workforce Modernization Act reveals a growing rift, as competing visions emerge about what compromises are worth striking to secure legal status.

This weekend, Niman Ranch and Native American Natural Foods (NANF), maker of the Tanka Bar, will announce a unique collaboration. The aim: to restore the buffalo to its revered place in Lakota society ...

In fact, in 2016, I landed a book deal on the topic, promising to explore why small family farms were at risk and what could be done to protect them. Having grown up on a small family farm myself, I ...

Phosphate fertilizer is an agricultural necessity. But the industry that mines it leaves a trail of destruction across the American South.

A group of plaintiffs led by Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA) on Tuesday filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that a group of U.S. meatpackers engaged ...

Chickens processed at unsafe speeds, fishing in protected waters, and fewer protections for workers: Experts say the pandemic has made our food system significantly more dangerous. In fewer than five ...

Cutbacks have defined the pandemic era restaurant—but when owners invest more in their employees, everybody wins. Like many restaurant operators over the past two years, Greg and Daisy Ryan, co-owners ...

Indoor farming companies—like Kimbal Musk's Square Roots—claim their methods result in better-tasting produce. That may be more marketing than science.

Covid-19 has been a stress test for the world’s food supply chains—and a preview of looming potential threats.