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Let’s stop pretending why people get excited about alt-meat introductions. The reason is pretty simple: Consumers are convinced they can save the planet just by (slightly) changing their diets.

The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) placed a full-page ad in The New York Times that puts the unappetizing ingredients of “plant-based meats” on display.

The collaboration will develop vaccines for transboundary and emerging diseases in animals and bring research jobs to College Station.

Prices for shares of Beyond Meat sank more than 20% on Tuesday as the lock-up period ended for early investors of the first plant-based protein traded on Wall Street.

We need a framework to better understand how marketing of the alt-meat category has created public perceptions about its environmental and dietary impact. Here’s how: think biofuels.

Trade with China is also a topic on Capitol Hill. The Senate Ag Committee holding a hearing on the state of the livestock industry. It was a hearing from representatives throughout the livestock sector.

How do I debate thee? Let me count the ways — and they’re numerous, because a recent op-ed hit job by the editors at Bloomberg got it totally wrong in their attack on animal agriculture.

The pork industry continues to grapple with the impact of African Swine Fever. From supply to demand, it’s an outbreak that could have a lasting effect.

The Meat Institute says California’s Proposition 12 hurts the nation’s food value chain by significantly increasing costs for producers and consumers.

Garland Joey Nelson, Braymer, MO, appeared in court on Monday in connection with the July disappearance of two Wisconsin ranching brothers.