- Meat
- Recipes
- Price
Cheap meats and eating offal
Often discarded, eating lesser-known cuts of meat or offal helps cut waste in meat supply chains, save money and get extra nutrition and flavour into your diet.
By James Evans - 3rd February 2021
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- Ethical business
- Growers and suppliers
- Price
New food brand gives power to consumer
Ethical consumers can vote for and then order the exact food they want to buy according to how it is produced and what price they want to pay, under a new initiative.
By Nina Pullman - 28th January 2021
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- Food waste
- Inequality
- Price
Lockdown has brought respect for meal planning
Lockdown has shown us a new way to live: now let’s work on flexible working, proper wages, an end to best-before dates and a new respect for the agile meal planner.
By Ann Storr - 23rd July 2020
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- The big interview
- Environment & ethics
- Organics
Back to the future
Author and food visionary Carolyn Steel published her new book Sitopia just as the Covid crisis hit, but as she tells Michael Barker, the timing could not have been more appropriate.
By Michael Barker - 14th July 2020
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- Dairy
- Farming
- Price
Spilt milk: Covid-19 and dairy
Covid-19 has sent milk prices tumbling and caused public shock at wasted milk, but the crisis in dairy is much more long-term.
By Megan Tatum - 26th April 2020
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- Ethical business
- Fairtrade
- Price
Bean counting
How one coffee company has set out to restructure the coffee industry and tackle inequality by shifting roasting and processing back to country of origin.
By Nick Hughes - 28th February 2020
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- Environment & ethics
- Price
- Politics
Food sustainability is nothing without equality
For anyone with an interest in changing the way we produce and eat food, tackling inequality and poverty are not sideline issues.
By Nina Pullman - 11th December 2019
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- Organics
- Price
Be savvy and eat organic on a budget
If you’re savvy and plan ahead, organic doesn’t have to cost much more than a usual supermarket shop, writes Alex Ryder.
By Alex Ryder - 6th November 2019
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- Environment & ethics
- Price
Sustainability: A luxury you can't afford
When 14 million people live below the poverty line and the use of food banks is rising, how can sustainable food become affordable enough to scale up?
By Nina Pullman - 27th March 2019
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Latest articles
- The big interview
- Eating & drinking
- Local sourcing
For the love of food
Honey & Co’s Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich are the ultimate foodie travellers, telling Nina Pullman about the joy of hyper seasonal eating and how to find where the locals eat.
By Nina Pullman - 17th June 2021
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
How to celebrate the Veg New Year
After months of eating hardy winter veg propped up by colourful additions from the continent, it’s an absolute joy to be eating fresh and local again.
By James Evans - 17th June 2021
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- News from the farm
A samphire start to summer
Every year we worry that the annual samphire will be out-competed by salt-tolerant perennials like sea purslane, but there seems to be just enough movement of the mud to keep the habitat open.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 16th June 2021
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- Plastic
- Packaging
- Ethical business
Why we need to become a refill nation
Alongside the opportunity to shop via refills, we also need to work on our own mindset. Surely the minor inconvenience of taking containers with us is a worthy price to pay to help cut plastic?
By Becky Blench - 16th June 2021
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- Environment & ethics
- Ethical business
- Organics
Your questions answered
Ever wondered what rewilding actually means? Or what’s the difference between grass-fed and organic? Or perhaps you’ve heard it’s good to cut down meat but don’t know why or how?
By Wicked Leeks - 16th June 2021
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- Environment & ethics
- Grow your own
- Net zero
B&Q leads on peat-free compost
Garden retailer becomes the first to commit to 100 per cent peat-free compost after attention grows on the urgent need to protect peatlands and store carbon.
By Rebecca Smithers - 15th June 2021
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