A worker at a West Virginia turkey plant has been sentenced to a year of home confinement for stomping on a bird's head and slamming another to the ground in abuse caught on video. Edward Eric Gwinn was also fined $1,000 and ordered to have no contact with domestic animals by a judge in Greenbrier County.

European food regulators issued a favorable scientific opinion on Monsanto Co.’s Roundup Ready 2 corn product for cultivation and reaffirmed the safety of its insect-protected corn trait. In its opinion, the European Food Safety Authority confirmed that the biotech giant’s YieldGard Insect-Protected Corn is safe for cultivation, animal feed and human consumption.

Australian farmers have worked hard to earn their environmental credentials after years of defending their record. Research by the National Farmers' Federation (NFF) shows that Australians' attitudes to farming and its effect on the environment are now largely positive.

http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2009/06/articles/wacky-and-strange-but-true/a-cookbook-of-recipes-to-move-the-poop-the-unconstipated-gourmet/ One for the discerning cookbook collector: first-time author Danielle Svetcov's The Un-Constipated Gourmet: Secrets for a Movable Feast (buy on Amazon), a collection of recipes designed to make you poop.

Mrs. Jennifer McJunkin writes that if the people are demanding raw milk and choose to drink it, then it's not "freedom" if the government won't allow us to purchase that which we choose to consume. The health benefits of raw milk consumption have been proven.

A new transgenic rice designed to fight a common pollen allergy appears safe in animal studies, Japanese researchers report in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Hopes for self-sustaining human colonies in space have been renewed by an Australian experiment with native plant seeds. The seeds, taken into space last year, showed no signs of "fatigue" or damage after surviving more than 28,000 orbits of the earth.

Global food security in a changing climate depends on the nutritional value and yield of staple food crops. Researchers at Monash University in Victoria, Australia have found an increase in toxic compounds, a decrease in protein content and a decreased yield in plants grown under high CO2 and drought conditions.

WASHINGTON -- The Fourth of July is coming soon. Many of us will celebrate with a day of outdoor activities and tasty meats from the grill. The chef of your household might have the skills to cook the perfect burger, but do they know the food safety "drills of the grill?" The U.S.