The Trump Administration’s warp-speed restructuring of the federal government, mass integration of government data and vast tracking of immigrants would likely not be possible without a key ...

Insects have become a hot topic. Between rising demand for “sustainable” livestock feed and interest in novel beef alternatives like cricket burgers, investments in the still-nascent insect farming ...

A few weeks ago, after a grueling day of harvesting tobacco in eastern North Carolina, Zapata returned to the house he shared ...

Mama Bear allegedly uses misleading branding on Atlantic salmon cubes sourced by Australis Foods, an aquaculture operation ...

Rich Gradoville, a retired schoolteacher, was perplexed by his bladder cancer diagnosis. He doesn’t engage in one of the highest risk factors for developing bladder cancer — smoking — so he asked his ...

Claudia is Sentient's Editorial Fellow. Her background is in science journalism and environmental communications and she ...

While the country’s farms tend to have high animal welfare standards, Bhutan also imports most of its meat.

Imagery is a powerful cornerstone of food marketing — think of a laughing cow on cheese — often playing an outsize role in what consumers ultimately choose to buy. But when it comes to the marketing ...

Iowa is the U.S. state with the most factory farms: 10,830 of them, to be exact. The massive scale of animal agriculture in Iowa produces staggering amounts of manure, more than its fields of corn, ...

The livestock industry is a major driver of Iowa’s economy. Animal agriculture is embedded in the history and culture of the state, from rural towns in the Driftless to the pork belt in the Northwest.