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Sustainable agriculture practices can protect the environment and produce high-quality, safe, and affordable food. Our goal is to promote such practices while eliminating harmful “factory farming” methods and strengthening government oversight of genetically engineered food.


Our Sensible Pharmaceutical Production feature highlights biotechnology companies that are developing drugs in safer ways than growing genetically engineered drug-producing food crops outdoors.

Check out the Spring issue of Green Cuisine: Earth-friendly, Healthy Recipes from Top Chefs and Local Farmers! In this edition you'll learn how chefs and farmers in Michigan work together to serve local food to hungry residents all year long. Pick up the recipe for the Food Dance Café's "Square Dance Salad," and get a bonus recipe for delicious Food Dance Café scones when you tell a friend about FEED, our monthly newsletter on food and agriculture issues!

CAFOs Uncovered: The Untold Costs of Confined Animal Feeding Operations
When it comes to most of the meat, dairy, and eggs produced in the United States, there's truly no such thing as a free lunch. In this new report, UCS exposes the billions of dollars in environmental, health, and economic costs imposed on society by Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).


Protect Our Food
A campaign to take the harm out of pharma and industrial crops
Help us convince the USDA to ban the outdoor use of food crops to produce pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals.

Campaign Updates
Read the latest developments from our campaigns on sustainably produced food, genetic engineering, and antibiotic resistance

Antibiotics and Food
Leaders in Congress introduce bill to end use of important human antibiotics as feed additives for livestock and poultry

Government Oversight
FDA OKs Cloned Meat and Milk; USDA Keeps Moratorium in Place

 


Grass-fed Beef and Dairy Video
UCS expert Dr. Kate Clancy describes the benefits of grass-fed beef and dairy.

Pharma and Industrial Crops
Use this interactive database to find pharma crop approvals in your state.

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Genetically Engineered Foods Allowed on the Market




 



 




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