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The AGtivist

The AGtivist: UK and Europe’s meat, egg, and dairy markets increasingly controlled by Big Food ‘tycoons’

New research reveals that UK poultry supply is dominated by three companies – and the trend continues across other sectors and countries, including Spain and Italy

Intensive farming Animal welfare Meat

Features

Folic acid in your flour – a welcome fix, or a risk worth knowing about?

New UK legislation makes it mandatory for folic acid to be added to most non-wholemeal flours. Nutritional Therapist, Hannah Neville-Green, unpicks the decision and weighs up the pros and cons

Health

News

How Big Ag tied “regen” to synthetic chemical inputs and shaped European farming policy

The same multi-billion-dollar companies producing synthetic agrochemicals are also lobbying for "regen agriculture". David Burrows smells a rat.

Farming Pesticides Politics

News

Mackerel is no longer sustainable. So, what fish can we eat?

As Waitrose removes all fresh, chilled and frozen mackerel from its shelves, Lizzie Rivera asks whether fish can ever be a sustainable choice?

Environment and ethics Fish

Features

Farming’s big plastic problem – and emerging solutions

A study of soil taken from 100 British farms found microplastic contamination at every site, writes Nick Easen

Environment and ethics Farming Plastic

News

Poison for profit – EU exports 122,000 tonnes of banned pesticides

44 Highly Hazardous Pesticides, banned for EU use, are still being shipped to the African continent

Environment and ethics Pesticides

Features

News from the farm: Healthy soil, plants & humans

Health News from the farm

The AGtivist

The AGtivist: UK and Europe’s meat, egg, and dairy markets increasingly controlled by Big Food ‘tycoons’

Intensive farming Animal welfare Meat

WL Meets

WL Meets: Caroline Bennett, raising the standard for sustainable fishing

Water Fish

STORY OF THE WEEK

For me, Riverford is about demonstrating that there is an alternative to rapacious shareholder capitalism, which I think has taken us to hell and is destroying the planet along the way. Guy Singh-Watson, founder, Riverford

News

Climate crisis, low support, unfair pricing – global survey of farmers highlights systemic struggles

Climate change Farming Inequality

Features

40 years on… an organic conversation with Guy Singh-Watson & Helen Browning

Agroforestry Agroecology Farming Guy Singh-Watson Organics

Features

What happened to Michelin’s sustainability-centred Green Star?

Sustainability Eating out Seasonality

Opinion

News from the farm: Keeping your head above water

Farming Guy Singh-Watson News from the farm

The AGtivist

20% of EU chicken comes from Poland’s megafarms, where salmonella outbreaks are on the rise

Intensive farming Animal welfare Health Meat

News

A wake-up call for coffee’s chemical pesticide dependency

Pesticides

Opinion

News from the farm: Acorns, jays & strawberries

Nature Farming Guy Singh-Watson

Features

Should farmers be paid a basic income?

Agroecology Farming Inequality Politics

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