The real price of cheap poultry
By Andrew Wasley Supermarket chicken is making us sick, as the recent scandal over the spread of the potentially-deadly campylobacter bug revealed. But cheap poultry is…
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…
Growing cities: revitalising blighted areas with urban agriculture
By Dan Susman Growing up I always planted pumpkins in the backyard with my parents, hoping I might end up like James and the Giant…
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…
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…
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…
Peak soil: unless we act now the very ground beneath us will die
Protecting and improving the health of soil is even more important today than it ever has been, says the Soil Association’s Helen Browning, especially coupled with…
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