Some chicken classifications speak to farming practices while others mean nothing at all. We break it down in this guide to chicken labels. David lives in Brooklyn where he's spent more than a decade ...

Chicken is the most popular meat in America, and it has been for decades. All that demand has ushered in some questionable farming practices to keep up, making clear labeling particularly important ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (KDKA) — It's a classic chicken-and-egg dilemma. Organic chicken and organic egg, that is, as a lot of people won't buy organic food until it declines in price. But it won't decline in ...

Organic farming is farming which follows practices designed to minimise the human impact on the environment, while ensuring the agricultural system operates as naturally as possible. It is a way of ...

Chicken is a staple in the American diet. According to the National Chicken Council, Americans eat around 100 pounds of chicken per person per year — more than any other country in the world. With its ...

Americans have a seemingly insatiable hunger for organic chickens. That’s helping to drive growth in the booming specialty industry for farm products. U.S. producers sold $750 million of organic ...

Organic farming is more profitable and economically secure than conventional farming even over the long-term, according to a new study in Agronomy Journal. Using experimental farm plots, researchers ...

Editor’s Note: Verena Seufert is a postdoctoral fellow at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia. Navin Ramankutty is a professor at the University of British Columbia.

The productivity of organic farming is typically lower than that of comparable “conventional” farms. This difference is sometimes debated, but a recent USDA survey of organic agriculture demonstrates ...

Organic practices can reduce climate pollution produced directly from farming – which would be fantastic if they didn’t also require more land to produce the same amount of food. Clearing additional ...