PRIME Act Would Steer Meat Processing in the Right Direction
A great new bi-partisan House bill would wrest control over intrastate meat slaughter from the USDA.
Agriculture
What's Behind the Jacked-Up Egg Prices and Shortages?
Avian flu is not the only explanation.
Senators Tell DEA to Stop Messing With State Hemp Crops
Provisions prevent feds from spending on interference with state hemp-farming programs or hemp crop transport.
Raisins, the Supreme Court, and Food Freedom
The Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause now protects you from government programs that steal your food.
FrankenMoths Attack Organic Farmers in Upstate New York
Or so some hyperventilating scaremongering nitwits would have you think.
Raisin Farmers Fight for Crop Control
Supreme Court hears case of USDA agricultural takings.
Ronald Bailey Explains How Real Factories Will Replace Factory Farms
Room for buffalo to roam and antelope to play.
Tremendous Victory for Wyoming's Bipartisan Food Freedom Act
"The free market is suddenly hip on the farm again."
GOP Candidates Quizzed on Farm Policies, Fuel Mandates at Iowa Ag Summit
A Huckabee gem from the Summit: "If I were the president, I would like to have all the authority there is."
Agricultural Ties Bind U.S., Cuba
Obama has taken concrete steps to loosen restrictions on U.S.-Cuba trade. Agriculture has been-and will be-the key driver of change.
Find Mama's Borscht Recipe: Russia to Ban Food Imports from US, EU
Tit continues to meet Tat.
Predictions of a Man-Made Sixth Mass Extinction May Be Exaggerated
Urbanization, forest, and agricultural trends point in a more hopeful direction
'Editing' Life With Gene Drives is a Great Way to Play God
Researchers develop a powerful new tool to manage wild ecosystems.
Vidalia® Onion Fight Highlights Absurdity of Many State Food® Rules
The nation's largest grower of Vidalia® onions is fighting-and flaunting-a Georgia state law that says he can't ship onions until the state says so. Why do Georgia and other states have dumb laws like these on the books?
Idaho Legislators Want to Outlaw Videos of Men Sexually Abusing Cows—But Not for the Reason You Expect
It's not an animal-porn law, it's an ag-gag law.
Virginia Bill Would Expand Farm and Food Freedom
Critics may moan about food safety risks, but anyone who's read Joel Salatin's Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal knows that the link between inspection and food safety is tenuous at best.
Food Freedom Dodged Bullets in 2013
For food freedom, 2013 was a banner year that saw the defeat of several potentially awful laws and regulations.
