New studies this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine have generated much fiery news coverage. For example, Time 's headline say...

The federal government's beef checkoff program this week is running advertisements in GroceryDive , a trade news site, targeting grocery...

The question for this new video (third in a series) is: Should the federal government stop encouraging Americans to eat more beef, pork, and...

New research released yesterday from leading agricultural economists Glynn Tonsor, Jayson Lusk, and Ted Schroeder finds that growing media ...

Should the Dietary Guidelines for Americans address environmental sustainability issues? The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) ...

Frontline last night had an excellent report , the Trouble with Antibiotics, on the plausible link between dangerous antibiotic resistant di...

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said this week that he shares farmers' frustrations and will use his authority to make necessary changes to t...

At the Washington Monthly , Siddhartha Mahanta describes the unusual coalition of animal welfare and conservative groups opposed to the fede...

Maureen Ogle's new history of the meat industry is In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America (Houghton Mifflin Harco...

A recent theme issue in Choices Magazine , a publication of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) , examined lean finely...

During a period of time when food policy-making at the federal level seems nearly dysfunctional -- witness the continued absence of a farm b...

The U.S. agricultural industry continues to react to the recent upheaval in the Cattlemen's Beef Board (CBB), the federal government...

Tom Jones resigned this week as chairman of the Cattlemen's Beef Board (CBB). This follows the resignation of Tom Ramey as CEO two wee...

The Cattlemen's Beef Board (CBB) chief executive officer (CEO) Tom Ramey resigned this week, throwing the checkoff program into turmoil....

I will certainly read it, but, from the title, I'm not really looking forward to James McWilliams' new book, Just Food: Where Locavo...

The world’s largest beef producer and packer, Brazilian-based JBS-Swift , announced it was abandoning its attempted takeover of the National...

An interesting article in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics this May used experimental data from an economics laboratory to a...

As of April, 2007, the top four firms in the beef packing industry had 83.5% of the market share (.pdf) . That's high enough to raise ...

ABC News last month offered a sharp, concise summary of the environmental case for eating 20 percent less meat. It draws on a collection of...

In February, after school children received shipments of meat from the plant that abused "downer" cattle, the Washington Post head...