Why fracking threatens farming and food safety
Research highlighting the potential impacts of fracking on livestock and farmers’ health need to be taken seriously, says Andrew Wasley The announcement this week by the…
Meet the new faces of real farming
Many contemporary farmers – despite a hostile economic environment and growing pressures to intensify – are finding new ways to make ecological farming viable. Colin Tudge…
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…
Using horsepower to challenge ‘big ag’
A radical experiment in community supported agriculture is attempting to break farming’s reliance on fossil fuels and unsustainable practices. Andrew Wasley met green farmer Ed Hamer…
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 agriculture, like the rest of society, needs gender equity
By Angie Carter and Gabrielle Roesch Woman own or co-own nearly half of our farmland in the United States, and are increasingly producing a greater diversity…
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…
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