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Cargill Meat Solutions rises from the flat plains of Fort Morgan, Colorado like a windowless fortress, guarded by a steep metal fence. The employee and visitor entrance is barricaded by large yellow blocks. The once constant procession of trucks, unloading cattle onto holding pens, or leaving the factory with vacuumed-sealed cuts of beef, has ground to a halt. The over 1,700 ...

For decades, federal law has made it nearly impossible for public schools to serve non-dairy milk. That changed in January, when Congress passed a law that ostensibly reduced these barriers. But a whole semester has come and gone, and many schools still are...

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Plans to build the world’s first commercial octopus farm are dead. On July 22, the Port Authority of Las Palmas announced that Nueva Pescanova, the Spanish seafood giant behind the proposal, had withdrawn its application to bui...

Intensive farming, where animals are kept in close quarters, creates environments that encourage the evolution of harmful bacteria and other pathogens so that they gain traits making it easier to infect people and more difficult to cure, a new study suggests.

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