Four times a year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), an agency of the United Nations, publishes a report on the food situation in developing and low-income, food-insecure countries. The report is supposed to provide an early-warning system that alerts the world to the need for out...

Britain's biggest retailer, Tesco, has pledged to give all leftover food to charities and France has passed laws banning supermarkets from throwing away or destroying food, forcing them to instead donate it to charities and food banks.

Supermarket giant says it aims to eradicate all food waste at its stores and distribution centres by 2017

Tesco has agreed a deal to donate all the unsold food from its stores to charity. 

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When the giant companies that dominate U.S. meat, dairy, and egg production want something in Washington, they lean on armies of lobbyists, which are financed by flush tra...

Eleven fresh and further processing poultry plants in five southern states owned by Wayne Farms LLC are on guard after foreign materials found in the company’s Laurel, MS, facility are being investigated as possible sabotage.

Ever looked at a puppy and thought that it was just so cute that you could eat the little darling alive? That expression has become even more morbid thanks to a new round of memes that show how similar some dogs look next to bagels or a pile of deep fried chicken.

NEW YORK -- Nearly three million boxes of frozen DiGiorno pizzas, Stouffer's lasagnas and Lean Cuisine meals are being recalled after customers said they found pieces of glass in their food.

Nestle USA, the company behind the brands, said no injuries have been reported.

Dietary protein is more effective than carbohydrates and fat in suppressing appetite, according to Swedish researchers. 

The findings from this study could further aid the creation of ‘intelligent’ foods that control and release the energy available. Considering that cont...

In 2009, the author and food historian Andrew Coe published the book Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States. From the first Americans to travel to China in 1784 through widespread anti-Chinese sentiment in the 19th century, Coe traced how it took the United States...