Ruminant

"Food is medicine" makes for a great bumper sticker. However, as health policy, things start to fall apart. The MAHA model, born from a blend of good intentions and Instagram-friendly catchphrases, skips the messy parts: the collision of biology and policy in creating the chronic disease crisis it claims to cure.

The cow-derived fat is controversial.

These caterpillars carry a toxic chemical cocktail and Inquisition-like delivery implements—and their geographic range is expanding

Development banks sent $2.3 billion to industrial animal agriculture in 2023.

At the climate summit, agricultural emissions are being sidelined — again.

DNA and protein analysis has identified a white substance smeared on mummies in China as a kind of kefir cheese, made from cow and goat milk

In the end, it's your gut microbes and leftovers that make your calories count.

According to an analysis by Italian researchers, there is an elevated risk of contracting E. coli after traveling to Egypt. In 2023, there were several

Chicken consumption is problematic "for the environment, food system workers [and] the chickens themselves"

Dairy farmers and veterinarians in northern Texas furiously investigated a mysterious illness among cattle before the government got involved. Their observations are telling.

A "mysterious" cow disease in the United States that causes thick and discolored dairy milk has turned out to be the first confirmed outbreak of bird flu among cattle.

Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with little or no oxygen, life found other ways to produce energy, using a process called fermentation.

Cattle burps are a key driver of climate change but this new certification could incentivize farmers to reduce emissions.

Scientists say reindeer seem to sleep while they chew, allowing them to forage all day in the summertime and still get enough sleep.

While the animals chew their cud, they also enter a state of rest

Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine experts explain how to care for your livestock during the cold months ahead.

Florida soils are typically very sandy and lack organic matter. Water and nutrient retention are increased in sandy soils via the addition of compost.

The woman brought a box of giraffe feces from Kenya to the U.S., according to customs officials. It was seized and destroyed.

Reducing methane emissions from livestock would benefit farmers and the environment. In a first step towards breeding low-methane-emitting cows, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and Pennsylvania State University have identified key differences between cows that naturally emit less methane than average.

According to World Wild Life, they claim that the production of beef effects "climate change due to emissions of greenhouse gasses such as methane, nitrous