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Farm Bill Pays Many, and Lavishly, for No Apparent Reason

Three Web sites and Six Questions to Help You Choose Wisely

It’s Not Just Burping Cows, But the Land Cleared for Them to Graze

Brands Include Banquet, Albertson’s, Food Lion, Great Value, Hill Country Fare, Kirkwood, Kroger, Meijer, Western Family

What does it mean when the way we build our cities makes it impossible to live sustainably?

For Pregnant Women and Mothers, Conflicting Recommendations on Mercury and Omega-3s

Just What Does “Artesian” — Or “Purified” — Really Say About Water Quality?

Scientists Increasingly Turn up Evidence Supporting Claim that Tea is Good for You

Whether the wild and crazy weather of 2007 will mean a stellar or mediocre vintage for California wines (or something in between), remains to be seen.

Entering the scene in force just a couple of years ago, the student movement for fair and local food on campuses and for launching college-based farms is taking off across the country.

The Flexitarian Table's Peter Berley shares two locally-sourced recipes.

A new disease is attacking orange groves, and it has some Florida citrus growers talking about potentially catastrophic damage to the industry. The Asian disease has a mild name — Citrus greening — but it has already spread to 27 of 32 Florida counties producing citrus fruit like oranges, lemons and grapefruit.

Today is the 30th anniversary celebration of World Vegetarian Day — a day to recognize and promote the ethical, environmental, health and humanitarian benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle.

Earlier harvests, longer growing seasons and a shifting in latitude or altitude — these are the factors shaping the wine-making industry worldwide, and it all appears to be due to global warming.

The crackdown begs a fundamental question. If we’re finding so much tainted product when we look, what is it that we’re not looking for? The FDA, it is now well known, inspects about 1% of the food imports that arrive on U.S. shores. What’s the next melamine?