Shocking must-see food films | No. 2: Blood harvest
The Ecologist Film Unit travelled to Calabria in Southern Italy in 2012 to reveal how the annual orange harvest makes use of African migrants paid poverty…
Migrant farmworkers ‘systematically damaged’ to produce food for others
Dora Clouttick caught up with Seth Holmes, author of the acclaimed Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies book which follows the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrant farmworkers…
Shocking must-see food films | No.1: The hidden cost of salmon
A very fishy business: uncovering the truth behind your cheap Christmas salmon… In its groundbreaking film from early 2009 the Ecologist Film Unit (EFU) travels to…
Chemical warfare: what’s really in your veg?
Most vegetables arrive on the supermarket shelf after being sprayed with a cocktail of pesticides or other chemicals, potentially posing a risk to human health. But…
Why the ‘consumption’ issue is absent from our food discourse
Dora Clouttick from Forked! catches up with Tara Garnett from The Food & Climate Research Network (FCRN) Forked: What do you think is the biggest food…
‘We might lose antibiotics in the fight to treat infections – that’s frightening’
Forked! catches up with Kath Dalmeny from the campaigning organisation Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming Forked: What do you think are the biggest food…
Why do we rarely think about the ecological impact of tropical fruit?
By Dora Clouttick Whilst many of us may be aware of the social inequalities associated with the international fruit trade, as well as the complex issue…
Soya wars – new film
The world’s reliance on soya to feed factory farmed animals is having a devastating impact, according to this brilliant new film by RAW, a project of…
Revealed: controversial herbicide lurking in our bread and cereal bars
Jordans cereal bars and Warburtons bread have been found to contain traces of glyphosate – a weedkiller that campaigners say poses a risk to human health.…
Deformities, sickness & livestock deaths: the real cost of glyphosate & GM animal feed?
Much of the meat and dairy produce eaten across Europe is made from animals fed a GM diet. But alarming – and controversial – new research…
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