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…
Cleaning up the pineapple chain
The tropical fruit has long been associated with appalling labour practices and environmental damage linked to intensively farmed plantations. But a sustained international campaign is trying…
Revealed: suffering of Europe’s ‘tomato slaves’
Across Italy an invisible army of migrant workers harvests tomatoes destined for our dinner plates. Paid poverty wages and living in squalor, medical charities have described…
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…
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…
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…
