Conscious Consumption

For the past two summers I have hosted a goat roast on the 4-acre farm I co-manage. More than an outdoor party, the process of slaughtering and then cooking a young goat in an underground fire pit has become a significant seasonal ritual.

I have no farming background. I was born and raised in the suburbs, and I spent more time in a shopping mall playing video games and eating fast food than I did outside. "Animals...

Dear Skye,

35 years ago today, thousands of farmers arrived in Washington D.C. for the second annual demonstration of the American Agriculture Movement (AAM). Some came on buses or planes, bu...

There’s a difference between real manure and standard journalistic bullcrap. American and British news agencies should have paid a bit more attention to the former.

China’s hybrid market of state-controlled capitalism often yields weirdness, but the government’s years-long attempt to manipulate the cotton market is particularly odd.

A quirky New Zealand project called Counting Sheep is mapping out the intersection of agriculture and ethics, trying to figure out where people draw line when it comes to scientific advances (dog/sheep DNA hybrids anyone?) before the line actually gets crossed.

Raw imported meat or fish now bears a label describing where it was raised, slaughtered and processed. Cooked meat doesn't face the same requirement and as a result, chicken from C...

Zack Seckler recently found himself in Africa with some free time on his hands. Instead of photographing from ground level, he took his art to the sky.