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…
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…
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…
Foie gras: why top chefs should be ditching this ‘torture-in-a-tin’
By Justin Kerswell Rarely has foie-gras – and the way it is produced – received so much attention in Britain. This major public interest was sparked…
The real point of GM food is corporate control of farming – don’t let them convince you otherwise
In a major new essay Colin Tudge considers the fables of industrial farming Governments these days are not content with agriculture that merely provides good food. In line…
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