In the future your fried chicken may be coming from a lab rather than the farm, if the San Francisco-based Startup Memphis Meats has anything to say about it.

There’s a Japanese island where rabbits rule, but ŠŒkunoshima doesn’t just have tons of adorable bunnies, it has a dark history, as well.

Arkansas has moved closer to passing a so called “ag-gag” law that would allow business owners to sue whistleblowers. While it’s aimed at preventing undercover filming of agricultural businesses by animal activists, it could end up preventing whistleblowers from exposing dangerous or unsanitary working conditions in a variety of industries, including child care and restaurants.

Cows produce a lot of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Scientists have been looking at various ways to reduce the amount of gas that, uh, escapes these creatures. One promising answer may lie in supplementing their feed with tannin-rich plants.

A new strain of bird flu infected a poultry flock in Tennessee, leading to the culling of more than 37,000 birds. The good news is that while this is the same subtype of the bird flu killing people in China, it’s genetically different and doesn’t present a problem for humans.

A soft raw milk cheese from Vulto Creamery in New York has been linked to a multistate Listeria outbreak resulting in two deaths, says the CDC.

Tyson, the largest poultry processor in the U.S., has stepped up plans to go antibiotic-free by this June. But what does that mean exactly?

This South American pseudo-cereal is more than just the darling of foodies and nutritionists – it could become an important staple crop in the future.

Why were nearly 1,000 newborn chicks dumped in a field in Eastern England? The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals aims to find out.