Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan will answer questions about Know Your Farmer Know Your Food and other local foods questions.

The outgoing USDA deputy secretary receives a heartfelt letter signed by Alice Waters, Marisa Tomei, Robyn O’Brien and many more.

What will happen to WIC, SNAP and the federal school lunch program if the shutdown is prolonged?

“Inconvenient Truth” producer Laurie David teams up with Katie Couric to make a film that has the Grocery Manufacturers Association defending its efforts.

A new report has some sobering statistics about how much food is wasted on the retail and consumer ends of the food chain.

In its Week in Review video, a USDA rep says it’s OK to eat that dry pasta several months past its sell-by date.

A petition to to the USDA to allow food stamps to be used online could make affordable, healthy foods easily available to people in food deserts.

SNAP recipients in certain states will be able to buy groceries from designated retailers during the 2-year pilot.

U.S. Cattlemen's Association has filed a petition to USDA arguing that lab-grown and plant-based meat startups shouldn't be able to call their products meat.

Have you ever tasted jarred baby food? It isn’t that good. So why feed it to your little one?

If Western culture can overcome the 'disgust factor,' insect cuisine could help fight global hunger and global warming, a United Nations agency reports.

Consumers who need guidance about all the seals and certifications on food packaging can find some answers in this food label guide.

Part II: Consumers who need guidance deciphering all the seals, certifications and claims on food packaging can find answers in MNN's Food Label Guide.

Health ratings on packages could influence consumers' purchasing decisions and drive food companies to make healthier products.

These tasty duos work together to pack a nutritional punch.

Each day, the average American throws away enough food to keep another person from going hungry.

If you're trying to stave off the mid-morning munchies, these foods will satisfy both your taste buds and your appetite.

The U.S. has moved from a pyramid to a plate. How do other countries visually communicate good nutrition?

Fiber is essential to a healthy digestive system. Find a place for these high fiber foods throughout your day and you'll get plenty.

You can get all the brain-boosting benefits from these nootropic foods instead of taking supplements, which aren't regulated.

Colorful diagrams help us understand how much of which foods we should be eating.

An art student inspired by "clean eating" creates ephemeral fruit mandalas that are as tasty as they are beautiful.

Skip the commercial mouthwash and eat your halitosis away instead.

Here are five foods that will help keep your hair healthy.

Chronic inflammation has been linked to many illnesses, so skipping these foods may improve your health.

Fruit flies live longer and lay more eggs when they eat organic food, according to a study published by university researchers and an ambitious Texas teenager.

This book takes you on a journey to an organic Japanese farm through personal stories and recipes.

This diverse magazine covers it all. When discussing goats, topics covered included recipes, raising them, their manure and more.

We can thank 3 important books published in the 1940s for the certified organic produce we see in stores today.

Food Tank and The James Beard Foundation have released the first annual guide that celebrates more than 400 U.S.-based groups.

Anyone can watch online and participate through social media in this two-day event featuring more than 75 speakers in the food and agriculture realms.

The FDA issues warnings about high levels of radiation in food from parts of Japan. There doesn’t seem to be too much of a danger of contaminated foods enteri

Instead of food waste heading to the landfill, now it will be repurposed, donated, or turned into compost, animal feed, or clean energy.

Take a look at some vintage recipes that make us wonder, "Who ever thought that was a good idea?"

The organic grocery chain lets local producers bypass the red tape of the banks and offers small loans to eco-responsible small food businesses.

Whole Foods helped to galvanize a nation of progressive shoppers, and now they're mad as heck.

The Ark of Taste is striving to get foods off an endangered species list.

Supermarket chain will screen environmentally themed films in more than 70 cities starting in April.

A boy from Thousand Oaks started making Braille labels for his local grocery store and now Whole Foods.

Whole Foods Market unveils a rating system for household cleaning products sold in its stores. But is additional transparency really necessary in a store that a

The Prius-driving, organic chicken-buying crowd give us something to snicker about in the Whole Foods Parking Lot.

Our food blogger steps into a Whole Foods for the first time in years and learns a few things she didn’t know.

If Food Day’s message is that it’s time for all America to eat real, an invitation-only feast in Times Square that the public could view but not attend migh

In a step in the right direction, Whole Foods announces it will remove all unsustainable seafood choices from its stores by Earth Day.

It takes some work, depending on the amount of food you want to preserve, but the payoff is worth it. Organic farmer Dan Bodkin of Gill, Mass., shows you how to

Ariyele Ressler features simple, nourishing recipes in her YouTube cooking channel.

An ad of President Obama selling chicken at a Whole Foods is perceived as racist.

The natural and organic chain of grocery stores promises full GMO transparency by 2018.

Healthy lifestyle education will be the focus of the company's first luxury resort in Texas.

Coffee, olive oil and fish are just some of the adulterated and intentionally mislabeled foods regularly passed off as something they’re not.