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…
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…
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…
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…
Why do we rarely think about the ecological impact of tropical fruit?
By Dora Clouttick Whilst many of us may be aware of the social inequalities associated with the international fruit trade, as well as the complex issue…
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…
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…
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