Cows are ruminants, which means that their bodies are designed to eat grass. I think many people forget this. Cows raised in CAFOs are forced to eat corn, which is not a natural food for cows.

Walking up a gentle slope, we come upon a herd of cows "mobbed" under a shady canopy, nibbling grass and depositing patties of natural fertilizer in the acre-or-so where they have been herded for ...

The video, which appears to originate from the British publication Farmers Weekly in June, shows cows crammed together as a machine dumps a waterfall of grass over their heads. Not exactly the ...

Grass-fed beef is all the rage these days. Everyone says it tastes better and is more humane for the cattle. But what about the environment? Is pasturing earth-friendly, or just cow-friendly?

The actual amount of methane released from a single blade of grass wouldn't change if it was just left to decompose, or if it was eaten by a cow and then digested by the bacteria in their gut.

Move over almond milk. Thanks to the appearance of grass-fed dairy in grocery stores, cow's milk could be making a comeback with health-conscious consumers already looking for nearly-natural foods.

Free range eggs are well established but now farmers are calling for better investment and support for the new Pasture Fed mark, which shows cows were fed on grass not grain. The new mark could ...