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Undercover investigation:The shocking cost of US 'mega-dairies'
Jim Wickens
21st September 2010
With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business... more...
Lab grown meat: a low-fat, low-carbon, cruelty-free future?
Matilda Lee
6th April, 2010
The technology isn't fully developed yet, but when meat really can be grown in a lab it's going to turn all our arguments about carnivorous diets on their heads... more...
Making Sense of Swine Flu
Pat Thomas
1st April, 2009
In the last few years the Ecologist has written extensively on the flu – both the garden variety that strikes us on an annual basis and the wider threat of avian influenza, H5N1. more...
Sick as a pig
Jim Wickens
26th March, 2009
Another strain of MRSA is emerging from the factory farms of Northern Europe, and it is linked to the insatiable demand for cheap meat on our plates. The Ecologist Film Unit investigatesmore...
A meaty issue
Simon Fairlie
1st October, 2008
Our excessive appetite for meat is taking a heavy toll on the planet, but as Simon Fairlie explains, the arguments used to depict omnivores as environmental super-villains are far too simplistic. more...
Chickens, Globalisation and the Forest King
Joyce D'Silva
19th August, 2008
Globally over 60 billion animals are farmed for food every year. The 2006 Report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), “Livestock’s Long Shadow”, predicted that global meat consumption will more than double by 2050 (from 2001). more...
The Forest King
Andrew Wasley
7th August, 2008
It was bred to aid the rural poor, but one bird is also helping break industrialised farming’s stranglehold on India. Andrew Wasley meets the remarkable Girirajamore...
All hands to the plough
Ed Hamer
7th August, 2008
The community supports the farmer and the farmer supports the community. Why isn't everyone taking part in the latest agricultural revolution, wonders Ed Hamer more...
Flask-Grown Flesh
Jim Thomas
20th July, 2008
If radical vegan Ingrid Newkirk has her way, the nouvelle cuisine on vegetarian menus in five years time may be a big juicy steak. more...
The banana brief
Ed Hamer
2nd June, 2008
From plantation to consumer: a tale of chemicals, slavery and CO2 more...
Bananas: from plantation to plate
Ed Hamer
2nd June, 2008
What could be more cheerful than this ubiquitous breakfast fruit? But if you’re not buying them Fairtrade and organic, argues Ed Hamer, then you’re buying into a modern agricultural scandal more...
Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate
Ed Hamer
22nd May, 2008
Founded in 1991 by Craig Sams and his wife Josephine Fairley, Green & Black’s brand was conceived to represent the ‘green’ concerns of its founders and the ‘black’ of the cocoa bean. more...
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Rachel’s Organics
Ed Hamer
22nd May, 2008
In 1952, Rachel Rowlands’ mother Dinah established the UK’s first organic dairy farm near Aberystwyth with a small herd of Guernsey cows, working ‘in harmony with nature, the elements, the seasons and wildlife’. In 1966, Rachel took over the farm and founded the Rachel’s Organic Dairy brand, which was sold to Horizon, a subsidiary of Dean Foods, in 1999. more...
Seeds of Change
Ed Hamer
22nd May, 2008
The Seeds of Change trademark was created in the 1980s by a small organic seed cooperative from Santa Fe, New Mexico, which set out ‘to help people and future generations improve their lives and enjoy wholesome, natural, chemical-free foods’. Seeds of Change expanded its enterprise in 1996 to include a range of organic soups, cereal bars, pastas and sauces. A year later it was bought by Mars and launched in the UK in 1999. more...
10 Reasons why organic can save the world
Ed Hamer & Mark Anslow
1st March, 2008
Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must farm and eat differently more...
Tesco announce £1.99 chicken
News
7th February, 2008
The supermarket chain has reached a new low with a special offer chicken sold whole for £1.99. more...
EU claim cloned food is safe
News
14th January, 2008
European food safety officials have given their public backing to cloned food, claiming it is safe to eat. more...
Andrew Simms' book, Tescopoly
Andrew Simms
7th June, 2007
Confused when shopping? Wondering if, when you go into the nation’s favourite supermarket, you’re getting the maximum green bang for your buck? Andrew Simms’ latest book, Tescopoly, is a forensic investigation of all things Tesco – including the chain’s green and ethical credentials. Forget the hype, he says, Tesco’s most recent charm offensive, the Good Neighbour policy, launched in May 2006, isn’t good enough. Could Britain’s largest retailer do it better? Take a look at Tesco’s Plan A – then read Plan Bmore...
Humanity's worst invention: Agriculture
Clive Dennis
22nd September, 2006
By radically changing the way we acquire our food, the development of agriculture has condemned us to live worse than ever before. Not only that, agriculture has led to the first significant instances of large-scale war, inequality, poverty, crime, famine and human induced climate change and mass extinction.By Clive W. Dennis (winner of the Ecologist/Coady International Institute 2006 Essay Competition) more...
BLT Sandwich: The Big Lifestyle Trade Off
Jon Hughes & Pat Thomas
22nd September, 2006
Is it worse than Mc Donalds? The BLT sandwich is an icon, the ultimate symbol of convenience culture. Tesco alone sells 5 million a year. This is what the £1.80 you pay for your BLT buys... more...
England Vanishing
22nd September, 2006
How do we define ourselves in time and space? A new book England In Particular suggests it is the commonplace, the local and the distinctive that tells us where we are more...
Roadkill Chef
Paul Kingsnorth
1st June, 2006
‘OK then,’ I say to Fergus, with a challenge in my voice, ‘what about badger?’ ‘Badger?’ says Fergus, his eyes on the road as he drives me into the Kent countryside. ‘Many times. There’s no rhyme or reason to badger. Sometimes it tastes really gamey and uriney, even if it’s fresh. It can be excellent though.’ I look at him as he drives. He’s definitely serious. more...
Special Report Supermarkets: Chicken
Felicity Lawrence
1st September, 2004
Wander down the meat aisle of any supermarket and you will find mountains of chicken being sold at unbelievably cheap prices. The real reasons for this cannot be found on the label. more...
Smithfield Foods: the truth behind its pigs and factories
Robert Kennedy Jr
1st December, 2003
The Ecologist goes inside the workings of Smithfield to reveal the true horrors of its pig production business more...
Farmed Cod
Tom Hargreaves
1st September, 2003
Already on sale in some British supermarkets, is farmed cod really the long-term solution to the problem of declining wild populations.By Tom Hargreaves more...
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