Promos for Oprah’s show – I think it’s Tuesday, 10/14 but possibly Monday – showed Lisa Ling’s on-scene footage from feedlots and poultry and pig farms.

The debate over California’s Proposition 2 to ban battery cages was already raging. And then Oprah did a show on it.

The same technologies scientists use to grow human tissue in a lab may one day be used to grow animal tissue to feed the world.

Tips for responsible carnivores.

Free-range and grass-fed animals are big with consumers. So why won’t most American slaughterhouses kill them?

A meat-and-potatoes guy tries to save money by buying an entire side of beef.

Fight bad food policy by growing your own.

Bypass the supermarket and buy it direct.

factory farming practices, she vowed to only eat animal products that were produced in a humane way. In practice, it translates into eating only animal products that are - from small (preferably local) farms - or are organic, - or...

We go for the real meat, the sustainably farmed, humanely raised and slaughtered, heritage, no-hormone, quality product, and for guys behind the counter knowledgeable enough to tell us where the meat came from and how to cook it.

Any restaurants serving non factory farmed meat in LA? Just switched from veggie diet to a diet including such meats, and have realized that this basically means nothing has changed, except what I can cook at home by buying meat...

Ecofriendly cleaning products to whip your kitchen into shape.

Our food editor reports from Slow Food’s global get-together.

CHOW’s milk taste test.

Our associate food editor goes to the Southern Foodways Alliance conference to celebrate the year of the pig and other Southern delights.