Conscious Consumption

The smell of wood smoke spiraling from the beneath the syrup vat is the quintessential scent of early spring along the back roads of these picturesque, well-tended forests. But rec...

It’s a minor revolution in one of the weirdest states in the country.

Amy’s Kitchen has recalled thousands of cases of its frozen products over possible listeria contamination. A new study finds that eating cereal fibers found in whole grains may help you live longer. In England, a former television star turned aristocrat has won a fight against one of the country’s first planned factory pig farms with the help of actor Dominic West, of “The Wire” fame. Finally, a new report finds that the use of antibiotics in agriculture is expected to explode over the next 15 years thanks to an increase in factory farms.

While attending Unity College in Maine, Jim Buckle had a revelation: local food tastes better.

If you’re careful about your arsenic intake, maybe avoid some of the cheaper wines out there.

A farmer in Oregon who put a piglet up for adoption on Facebook received death threats; rescued pups from a South Korean dog meat farm arrived in California to become pets; Scottish sheep farmers are worried an effort to reintroduce lynx will lead to livestock losses; and a new proposal to build a facility in Maryland that would convert chicken poop into energy.

In the Sacramento Valley, northeast of San Francisco, farmers are actually selling water to the state, for exorbitant fees.

It’s World Water Day, so here are 10 facts to consider and some ways you can make a difference.

Directed by Sanjay Rawal and narrated by Forest Whitaker, this 83-minute documentary pivots around the activism of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a group of tomato pickers.