TIME Adele Douglass built a non-profit that protects millions of farm animals and gives farmers a new marketing niche. After a three-decade career in Washington devoted to animal welfare issues, Adele Douglass thought she knew a lot about how bad their mistreatment could get. Still, she was shocked when she began to look closely at …

Newport Beach Independent There are many ways to maintain good health, but basically it comes down to the very thing that keeps our body going: food. Our food is at least 4 to 5 times removed from us before finding its way into the local grocery store or restaurant, leaving consumers vulnerable to what actually …

LA Daily News Although Americans are eating less meat overall, chicken has surpassed beef as the most popular choice for meat. This is likely due to both the increased costs of beef and the common perception that chicken is a healthier form of protein. Now the average person eats about 60 pounds of chicken per …

Fox News There’s a lot more to beef than just the cow. Today’s modern bovine is quality-controlled from before birth to beyond the packing line with specific cuts of meat making their way across the globe in mere hours. And with more access to beef than ever before, healthy consumers are beginning to take an …

News and Views If you’ve been worrying about antibiotics in meat and antibiotic-resistant superbugs, good news: Perdue Farms says it will no longer routinely inject antibiotics into eggs about to hatch, NPR reports. Until now, the eggs (these are fertilized eggs with chicken embryos inside, not eggs to be sold as eggs, which are unfertilized) …

By Jenni Spinner+, 10-Jul-2014 Nearly two thirds of US consumers will spend more on speciality eggs, but most don’t fully understand what terms describing humanely raised eggs mean. http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/Packaging/Food-packaging-labels-confuse-consumers

AUSTIN, Texas, July 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Nearly two-thirds of Americans routinely spend more to buy specialty eggs, but a new nationwide poll reveals they don’t always get what they think they’re paying for. How well do you know your egg labels? This infographic paints a clear picture of the differences among pasture-raised, free-range, and …

 The company says it serves “Food With Integrity.” What does that mean? posted on June 25, 2014, at 4:56 p.m. Deena Shanker, BuzzFeed Staff 1. Chipotle doesn’t do all of its own cooking: Some is done by an outside company, the same one that makes McDonald’s McNuggets, Big Macs, and McRibs. Chipotle’s website says its …

June 30, 2014 1:45 pm • Bill Daley Chicago Tribune “Pasture-raised eggs”: Do you look for that description when shopping? Fewer than 1 in 4 respondents looked for that phrase, according to a poll of 670 Americans conducted in May for Vital Farms, an Austin, Texas-based company that describes itself as the “only national supplier of …

Shoppers are spending more on specialty eggs, but new research reveals they do not really know what they are buying. A new national survey shows egg carton labels are confusing consumers. They want the benefits of pasture-raised eggs but are mistakenly buying eggs labeled “free-range” and “cage-free” instead because they do not understand the difference …