Conscious Consumption

The legendary, tragic and true story of Chess McCartney, The Goat Man of the South.

Goats can be bad guys, too.

Everyone knows of goats' mythical appetites -- that's why they're killer for clearing brush and invasive weeds. But set them loose on an island, mating and eating everything in sig...

On paper, it looks grand from every angle. A herd of goats descends on a neglected field, overgrown with invasive plants inflicting damage on native ecosystems. They eat the plants, fertilize the land, and move on. But for the farmers who rent out these herds of goats? The business model is another story.

There’s an idea about goats that is firmly entrenched in the popular imagination: Goats will eat anything that isn’t bolted down. They’ll eat shoes, books, McRibs, even tin cans. Except, that’s not really true at all.

Sometimes it’s not easy being a goat. Like when you get accused of being a black magician, stealing a car, and being thrown in the slammer.

The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: a Goat Week cameo.

This is the state fair diary of Deer Girl, a Boer goat, as told to journalist Andrew Jenner.

There have been a lot of headlines about using goats as living lawnmowers. Google famously used goats on an undeveloped section of its campus, and more recently the Congressional C...