An unlicensed ice-cream seller in Chester is battling with food safety officers. Marcus Conder, 45, of Flagg Lane, Upton, literally decided to get on his bike and look for work after he was made unemployed. Mr Conder has accepted he is operating illegally but is claiming he would not get a street trader’s licence because numbers are strictly controlled.

Almost three years ago the government legislated on the HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) system for the food industry – and while a new standard, ISO 22000, is being implemented around the globe - the local food industry has been “alarmingly slow” on the uptake, creating a dangerous situation for consumers.

Sending bobby calves containing a prohibited drug to the works has earned a Waimate dairy farm company a record-breaking $6,000 fine in a case brought by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA).

Reporting from Oakland - Leftovers from San Francisco Bay Area restaurants may soon help power the region. The East Bay Municipal Utility District has created a program, believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, to generate electricity from the methane gas produced by food decomposition.

Dickson D. Despommier, a professor of public health at Columbia University who is writing a book about vertical farms, writes in this op-ed that if climate change and population growth progress at their current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will no longer exist. This means that the majority of people could soon be without enough food or water.

The battle of the beet — the genetically modified sugar beet — is set to be fought before the Boulder County commissioners Tuesday. A proposal to allow six farmers to plant the genetically altered crop on 960 acres of county land has divided the community.

His entire life, Kenneth Birkes has worked seven days a week from dawn to dark. Then he ate a meal in honor of his father's 85th birthday at Country Cottage in Locust Grove. It was Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. Five days later, Birkes fell ill. The 61-year-old Grove man hasn't worked since.

A 2-year-old girl became ill five minutes after drinking seawater at Narrow Neck Beach the same day a second dog died after eating toxins there. The Auckland Regional Council last night repeated its warnings to keep children and dogs away from Hauraki Gulf beaches after the death of five dogs and illness in at least a dozen others.

YAMHILL, Ore. -- On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. It’s not just that it produces unhealthy food, mishandles waste and overuses antibiotics in ways that harm us all. More fundamentally, it has no soul.