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…
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.…
Ecologist Guide to Food – a major new book lifting the lid on what we really put in our mouths
The Ecologist Guide to Food By Andrew Wasley, with a foreword from Zac Goldsmith Publishing February 2014, Price £9.99, ISBN 978-1-78240-102-5 The Ecologist has been setting…
What links your Chinese takeaway and the sex trade?
The answer: migrant labour, as the investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai found out whilst working undercover to research her new book, Invisible, and documentary, Sex My British…
Fracking with our food: UK farms at risk from gas drilling, say experts
The UK should ditch fracking until its impact on food safety can be assessed, US experts behind a disturbing study highlighting links between sick cattle and…
How do you feed a city of 117,000 people sustainably?
Exeter might be affluent and hungry for locally produced, sustainable food, but in common with other towns and cities across the UK, independent retailers, producers and…
Are your prawns linked to people trafficking?
Western consumers could be eating fish arriving as a result of modern day slavery in south east Asia, a shocking new report and film claim. Thailand’s…
Ecologist Guide to Food – delving behind the labels (literally)
The Ecologist Guide To Food – the first in a new series of hard hitting consumer guides from the world’s leading environmental magazine. For those of us…
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