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

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. (By Andrew Sessa)

Tips for responsible carnivores. (By Roxanne Webber)

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

A meat-and-potatoes guy tries to save money by buying an entire side of beef. (By Jason Krause)

Fight bad food policy by growing your own. (By Roxanne Webber)

Bypass the supermarket and buy it direct. (By Lessley Anderson)

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.

Ecofriendly cleaning products to whip your kitchen into shape. (By Michele Foley and Roxanne Webber)

Our food editor reports from Slow Food’s global get-together. (By Aida Mollenkamp)

CHOW’s milk taste test. (By Lessley Anderson)

Our associate food editor goes to the Southern Foodways Alliance conference to celebrate the year of the pig and other Southern delights. (By Kate Ramos)

CHOW’s ecoconscious remodel guide. (By Michele Foley)

Swine wranglers in Sonoma, California, get hit with an animal-rights lawsuit over use of cages that confine pregnant and nursing sows. (By Stephanie Rosenbaum)

Because I love local farmers and the produce they grow, I love the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, and I love Bay Area chefs. (By Davina Baum)