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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.

Where and what do the bees like? And how can we make them happy?

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.

In the far reaches of Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault acts as an insurance policy against worst-case scenarios by securing the building blocks of our planet’s food supply.

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?

Rejigger your washing machine to irrigate your yard, rather than send that valuable freshwater to the sewer.

Garden-to-table is all the rage. Why not toilet-to-garden?