After local well water tested positive for E. coli, residents in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania are blaming biosolids, applied to a nearby farm for the contamination.
Bill Schaffhouser, who has lived
Monday marked the first annual Food Day, an occasion dedicated to celebrating healthy eating and local food.
The observance – launched by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
Federal agencies have made “limited progress” in addressing antibiotic use in food animals and lack the data needed to track progress, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
The
A city planner in Oak Park, Michigan apparently did not get the memo about gardens being a good thing.
The Oak Park official wants to put residents Jason and Julie
The Humane Society of the United States and the United Egg Producers — bitter rivals on animal welfare issues — Thursday took the food and agriculture community by surprise. The two groups
As urban homesteading becomes increasingly popular, more people are refraining from store-bought eggs to try their hand at raising backyard chickens. However, despite the many potential benefits, it’s still
I did an internship during the summer of 1975 at the Hot Springs Star, a weekly newspaper in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota that was still entirely a
Ask meat vendors at a farmers’ market what their biggest headache is, and they likely will say getting their animals processed. If those vendors are selling certified organic meat and
Eight major foundations announced Tuesday that they have launched an initiative to solve long-term national and international food and agriculture policy issues.
Called AGree, the effort is being funded by
California, a state that has long been at the forefront of the fresh food movement, is planting the seed of its “California cuisine” in the next generation.
This month marked
Yesterday Food Safety News was one of many victims of a failure at Amazon Web Services, or “the cloud.”
What that means for you, our readers, is that our promise
Some organic farms in the western United States may have been duped into using non-organic fertilizer, and consumers who thought they were buying organic food may instead have been paying