
- Animal welfare
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A view from the farm
Trialling soya-free feed, adapting to Covid and protecting livelihoods have been top of the list for three organic meat producers this year.
By Jack Thompson - 15th December 2020
1Trialling soya-free feed, adapting to Covid and protecting livelihoods have been top of the list for three organic meat producers this year.
By Jack Thompson - 15th December 2020
1All the tax these smaller businesses would normally generate is being siphoned away from the economy and our communities – but we can still choose to buy local online.
By Becky Blench - 19th November 2020
3Truly modern nutritional advice, as opposed to the magic-bullet, snake-oil kind that has become the norm, veers closer and closer to folk wisdom, writes Colin Tudge in this excerpt from his new book.
By Colin Tudge - 16th November 2020
2With climate firmly on the agenda for the new President-Elect, environmentalists have welcomed a new era for green action.
By Jack Thompson - 12th November 2020
16Co-founder of Mexican restaurant chain Wahaca on how to spot sustainable restaurants and why Covid has prompted a new focus on the value and provenance of food.
By Nina Pullman - 12th November 2020
0Football star leads unprecedented campaign to help feed hungry children during school holidays in face of MPs voting against extending free school meals.
By Nina Pullman - 27th October 2020
1Organic business leaders speak out to warn that accelerating biodiversity losses and climate change make this the most important decade ever faced by humanity and urge businesses to act.
By Nina Pullman - 22nd October 2020
2Mindfulness and sustainable food have always been at the heart of Sharpham Estate, but lockdown brought them to the fore in new ways.
By Nina Pullman - 19th October 2020
1New survey finds surge in buying local as rugby referee Nigel Owens joins campaign to highlight how ethical shopping helps sustainable farmers.
By Nina Pullman - 16th October 2020
1The agri revolution led to a focus on crop yields above all else – but researchers are beginning to look again at nutrition in our food.
By Jack Thompson - 9th April 2021
2The Netflix documentary has been welcomed for spotlighting damage from large-scale fishing while its claim that no fish is sustainable is disputed.
By Nina Pullman - 8th April 2021
12More than just reefs and rainforests, habitat diversity also covers the heaths, woodlands, fens and bogs closer to home. Here's how you can help protect and visit some of the habitat restoration…
By Becky Blench - 8th April 2021
2Charity Surfers Against Sewage hopes to galvanise 100,000 Brits to clean a million miles of rivers, beaches and green spaces to counter the rise in single-use plastic since the pandemic.
By Nina Pullman - 8th April 2021
0I found it hard to disagree with the main conclusion of Seaspiracy: that there is almost no sustainable fishing, and the labels claiming sustainability fall a long way short of delivering it.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 8th April 2021
9The pandemic has brought a fresh perspective on the power of community and feelings of injustice: let’s channel this anger positively and build dignified food security for all, writes David Markson.
By David Markson - 6th April 2021
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