Poultry industry’s dirty secret
By Felicity Lawrence, Andrew Wasley and Radu Ciorniciuc Three of the UK’s leading supermarkets have launched emergency investigations into their chicken supplies after a Guardian investigation…
The rise of ‘small milk’
In contrast to the vast US-style ‘mega dairies’ appearing in parts of the UK, one Sussex biodynamic dairy farm says small-scale milk production can work, both…
Food quality and farmers’ incomes under threat from new trade treaties
Dora Clouttick caught up with Tracy Worcester, acclaimed film maker and activist behind the bold new campaign group Farms Not Factories Forked: What are the biggest…
How GM food is finding its way onto your dinner plate (and you may not know it)
Andrew Wasley reports on the alarming ‘silent invasion’ of genetically modified animal feed into the UK Genetically modified (GM) food is flooding into the UK…
Zac Goldsmith: the hidden cost of our food
Extract from The Ecologist Guide to Food, published February 10th 2014 The Ecologist has been setting the environmental agenda for over 40 years – bringing the critical…
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…
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…
‘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…
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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