In 2014, Bloomberg's Mark Schatzker predicted that chocolate could follow the path of food items like chicken and strawberries ... by environmentalists. Genetic engineering could protect chocolate ...

Walker feels the loss of those open-source genetics acutely, because his egg business relies on a troubling side effect of it. When the chicken industry began hybridizing heritage lines ...

The red junglefowl—the wild ancestor of the chicken—is losing its genetic diversity by interbreeding with domesticated birds, according to a new study led by Frank Rheindt of the National ...