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Megan Tatum

Formerly features editor at leading trade magazine The Grocer, Megan Tatum is an award-winning freelance journalist specialising in food, health, technology and the environment. In 2019, she won BSME Campaign of the Year for the two-year project Waste Not Want Not, which successfully helped lobby government for an additional £15 million in funding to fight food waste. 

Features

The UK's dirty plastic secret

How the UK’s failure to stop plastic waste exports is leading to dangerous environmental impacts and illegal disposal in Malaysian communities.

Food waste Environment and ethics Packaging Plastic
Features

A culture war on food waste

Environment and ethics
Features

Pipe dreams

Ethical business Technology
Features

Battle of the oils

Biodiversity Environment and ethics Ethical business
Features

Did Covid-19 kill the zero waste shop?

Food waste Packaging
Features

Spilt milk: Covid-19 and dairy

Dairy Farming Price
Features

New milk on the block

Climate change Dairy Plant-based
Features

A right to food at Christmas

Inequality Politics

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Community highlight

I frankly hate the corporate monopoly of the food system. But I want to see regenerative farmers supported - if the only things they do are improve soil health and sequester carbon, perfection it may not be, but progress it is.

Sarah Glenn on Regenerative farming: Transforming the system or preserving the status quo?