- Environment & ethics
- Technology
A GM future?
From GM to gene editing: Boris Johnson's favourable stance towards GM could reopen the debate as Brexit prompts changes in UK's food and farming system.
By Nick Easen - 24th March 2020
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- Environment & ethics
- Health
Why prisoners deserve ethical healthy food
For the first time in a long time, people there are excited about prison food. Those of us outside the prison system should be, too, writes Ruby Tandoh.
By Ruby Tandoh - 25th February 2020
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- Health
- Environment & ethics
Pesticide giants making billions from hazardous chemicals
A third of sales from top five pesticide companies are in chemicals classed as ‘highly hazardous’, at odds with corporate ‘sustainability’ PR image.
By Nina Pullman - 20th February 2020
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- Environment & ethics
Voices of sustainability
The latest print edition of Wicked Leeks includes the 'Voices of Sustainability' cover feature; how feeding seaweed to cattle can reduce methane emissions; tips for pickling; the latest Ellis cartoon…
By Nina Pullman - 17th February 2020
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- Cartoon
- Environment & ethics
Ellis: Diving into a new trade deal
Ellis fears the government isn't as dedicated to protecting higher welfare or quality standards as it claims to be, as it moves towards a proposed UK-US trade deal.
By Ellis - 7th February 2020
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- Meat
- Environment & ethics
- Food waste
Why meat could be the real by-product
From meat, to fur, and other useful materials – how hunting rabbits taught Adam Taylor a new respect and value of an animal’s life.
By Adam Taylor - 5th February 2020
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- The big interview
- Eating & drinking
- Environment & ethics
Cooking up a food strategy
Henry Dimbleby is the man leading the UK's first national food strategy since WWII. Here he tells Hugh Thomas how he will fix ‘things that are obviously stupid’ and why the conversation around meat…
By Hugh Thomas - 4th February 2020
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- Employee ownership
- Environment & ethics
The power of choice
I see it as the responsibility of any person in a stable position to make choices that have a positive impact on the world around us, writes Riverford's film director Christian Kay.
By Christian Kay - 29th January 2020
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- News from the farm
- Environment & ethics
Helping farmers grow their own future
By training families to farm sustainably, the new Send a Cow and Tusk campaign hopes to alleviate hunting pressures on Uganda's Murchison Falls national park.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 23rd January 2020
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Latest articles
- Grow your own
- Inequality
Allotment land declines as demand surges
Study finds allotment land has fallen by 65 per cent since mid 1900s with urban deprived areas most affected, despite benefits to food security and mental health.
By Nina Pullman - 1st April 2020
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- Local sourcing
- Climate change
Covid-19 is bringing local food to the fore
Coronavirus shows us how there is a resilient local food supply chain ready and waiting in the wings with huge potential for food security, writes Marina O’Connell.
By Marina O'Connell - 1st April 2020
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- Veg Hacks
- Recipes
Veg Hacks: Salt-baked celeriac
Watch the first of the new Veg Hacks series and try salt-baked celeriac: a no fuss way of approaching this gnarly-looking vegetable.
By Bob Andrew - 30th March 2020
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- Food waste
- Eating & drinking
How to freeze fruit
From a segment of lemon for an emergency G&T to ready-to-go fruit compotes – here’s how to freeze what fruit.
By Bob Andrew - 30th March 2020
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- Food waste
- Eating & drinking
How to freeze veg
Make your own frozen mash, keep a stash of herbs or learn how to freeze each type of leafy green in these top tips for how to freeze veg.
By Bob Andrew - 30th March 2020
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- News from the farm
- Farming
Valuing what is close
If there is a silver lining to this cloud, it may be that we learn to value more what is close – be that vegetables or people.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 26th March 2020
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