Western elites may embrace a vegetarian lifestyle but impoverished countries would happily trade places with them. Despite claims like it takes a gallon of gas to create a pound of beef being long…

A recent review article in the scientific journal Nature Plants makes the claim that organic produces "foods that contain less (or no) pesticide residues, compared with conventional…

Monsanto's signature herbicide glyphosate, first marketed as "Roundup," is now the most popular weed-killer in the history of chemical agriculture in both the U.S. and globally, according to a paper…

What is a great way to ensure that conservation has no support at all from the public? Hand nature over to centralized bureaucrats and create environmental groups full of lawyers to sue to make sure…

Farmers jumped in because higher prices due to clever marketing meant higher profits - but demand for feed caused expenses to rise.  That has meant consolidation because smaller farmers cannot…

Lisa Jackson is leaving the EPA, she has announced, and virtually no one is going to be disappointed. The EPA was created to be anti-business so no one can really claim that being anti-business is a…

Decades ago there was a cultural debate about who could best handle recycling, the private sector or government. Though environmental groups today are commonly associated with more government…

Open-Sourcing Chicken: Breaking Free from Corporate Genetics “These are corporate genetics from huge companies,” says Nigel Walker, proprietor of Eatwell Farm outside Dixon, Calif. “I’m embarrassed…

There is a growing demand for fruit and vegetables across the Western world, thanks to increased awareness of their nutritional and health benefits. But we’ve always been taught they might not be…

Farm to fork, locally grown and all of the other progressive terms for agriculture self-identification leave out one important fact: People would starve. Seattle, for example could feed 4 percent of…