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Salad chain Sweetgreen is adding steak to its menu, an announcement that led to strong reactions online, with customers questioning how…
Just when you stopped regularly hearing about COVID-19 in the news, another infectious disease began to dominate headlines this spring:…
New Florida resident Jeff Bezos pumped $60 million into making lab-grown meat taste better. Ron DeSantis just banned it from the state
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may have just crossed a formidable new constituent. The former presidential hopeful this week signed legislation…
Texas vet who cares for 40,000 cattle said nearly every farm that had cows sick with bird flu also had sick workers: ‘I had people who never missed work, miss work’
The first calls that Dr. Barb Petersen received in early March were from dairy owners worried about crows, pigeons and…
Farmers in Africa look to ancient fertilizer methods and new greenhouse technologies as climate change parches the land
From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are…
Investigation finds wolf killed a calf in Colorado, potentially reigniting a ‘ballot biology’ political debate
A wolf has killed a calf in Colorado, wildlife officials said Wednesday, confirming the first livestock kill after 10 of…
Texas avian flu outbreak spreads from cows to humans and chickens, but is ‘a very, very small part of the overall picture,’ state agriculture boss says
An avian flu infection spreading across cattle herds in Texas has jumped to humans and chickens. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid…
Avian influenza spreads to dairy herds in Michigan and Idaho, expert ‘wouldn’t be surprised if there are infections in cows in Europe too’
Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been discovered in dairy herds in Michigan and Idaho, indicating the virus is spreading into new…
USDA identifies ‘rapidly evolving’ cattle virus as avian flu, another blow to Texas panhandle cattle ranchers battered by wildfires
A mysterious virus has been infecting cattle herds across the central and southern U.S. for the past few weeks. For…
Climate change disproportionately affects women who run farms and rural households in poor countries, UN warns
Women who run farms and rural households in poor countries suffer more from climate change and are discriminated against as…