In intensive farming animals are viewed as units of production to be ground relentlessly through the system. Nothing could be more different at Kite’s Nest in the Cotswolds, where the livestock is actively engaged in deciding how the farm is managed.
… of cows Robin Maynard | 1st March 2005 News Farming Cows Husbandry Livestock Animal Husbandry Food And Farming COWS_MAR05_MAIN.jpg In intensive farming animals are viewed as units of …
When people take part in the seasonal and cyclical activites of growth they are more able to put things into perspective - to make decisions that are governed by life-sustaining principles over and above financial incentive
… FARMING MATTERS RACHEL FRANCIS | 1st September 2005 Comment Farm FarmingFarming Green Living Society Archive_41.jpg …
Organic food is not necessarily the automatic choice for the ethical consumer
… Fast Food Fair Trade Supply Chain Food And Farming Troublewithorganics_MAIN.jpg Organic … of the principles underpinning organic farming. Many people are fed up with having to … food to the hilt. I would argue that organic farming was better for the environment because …
After more than 20 years work, Mike Hands, a British tropical ecologist has come up with a groundbreaking way to stop vast areas of rainforest destroyed
… seeing forests destroyed by slash-and-burn farming. Each time, the same questions plagued … on soil husbandry, organic gardening and farming. While they were full of techniques … He knew that alleycropping, a method of farming pioneered in Nigeria and in which …
Monty Waldin visits La Ferme de la Sansonnière, one of France’s, if not the world’s, most complex Biodynamic vineyards
Ferme de la Sansonnière Monty Waldin | 16th December 2005 Ethical Living Biodynamic Wine Vineyards Ferme De La Sansonnière French Wine Chaptalisation Chemical Fertilisers Demeter Certified Estate Cow …
Bird flu has been raging through Asia for more than a decade. But it is only recently that most of us have started to pay attention to the story. Pat Thomas seperates fact from fiction and asks whether this is a random act of nature or yet another man-made disaster.
… Bird Flu H5N1 Tamiflu Relenza Risk Food And Farming Health Investigates_3.jpg Bird flu has … to expose the economic reality of intensive farming. From a modern farmer’s perspective … at the contribution of modern intensive farming practices to the emergence of highly …
Our lives are now so dependent on oil that it is impossible to conceive of a world without it. Before long, however, we will have no choice. The sooner we start planning for that reality, and changing the way we live, the better our chance of survival.
… to the improved yields that chemically based farming brought humanity, is the massive surge … we have to move away from a system of farming based on inputs derived from fossil … need to move towards a locally based organic farming system, this shift will be far from …
Imagine you could turn 30 per cent of your household waste, at no cost, into high-quality compost for your plants, while also reducing toxic emissions from incinerator plants...
… Landfills Green Living Energy Food And Farming Pollution COMPOSTING_FEB05_MAIN.jpg … oceans or blown away as a result of intensive farming practices or deforestation. 4. You are … side of the bin. Worm composter Really worm farming rather than worm composting. Your …
Half way between Cusco and the lost city of Machu Picchu lies the ancient artery of Inca trade and production - the salt terraces. For over 1,000 years little has changed for the salt farmers of Maras. Now, thanks to a clumsy, unnecessary and potentially dangerous attempt at mass medication, this traditional livelihood is at risk. By James Frankham.
… Machu Picchu Salt Harvesting Traditional Farming Iodine Table Salt Cooking Salt Salt Of The Incas Fair Trade Economics Food And Farming Politics And Economics …
The good, bad, and ugly sides of chocolate addiction.
… Food And Health Green Living Food And Farming CHOC_DEC03_MAIN.jpg The good, bad, and … that need them. • Environmentally sustainable farming methods such as organic and shade …
The days of Apartheid are over, but once again South Africa is the victim of a dangerous experiment. Jeffery Smith raises the alarm over the government's legislation of genetically modified maize
… Gm Products Monsanto Campaigns Food And Farming blogs&comments.jpg The days of …
According to a Mori poll in March 2004, the fairtrade mark is now recognised by 39 per cent of the British public, up from 11 per cent five years ago. But what difference does fairtrade actually make to the lives of the producers? John Atkin looks at the Nicaraguan community of La Pita who sell half of their coffee on the fairtrade market
… Pita Farmers Fair Trade Green Living Food And Farming Politics And Economics Archive_73.jpg … for study and provides training on social, farming and environmental issues. In addition, …
Just change your electricity supplier and help fight climate change. Sounds too good to be true. Is it?
Green Electricity… Are you being conned? Jeremy Smith | 1st June 2005 News Wind Power Plants Telecoms Consumerism Green Living Energy Archive_86.jpg Just change your electricity supplier and help …
Having an allotment is no longer a tiresome hobby practised by old geezers in wellies and donkey jackets. It’s an insurance policy against an uncertain future, as Paul Kingsnorth has found out for himself over the last three years.
… Green Lifestyle Green Living Food And Farming Dig-for-victory_MAIN.jpg Having an …
Aspartame should never have reached the marketplace. But even if the authorities were to remove it from sale tomorrow, how much faith should consumers place in the other artificial sweeteners on the market?
… Pat Thomas | 9th August 2005 News Food And Farming Health investigates.jpg Aspartame …
A simple experiment by a Russian scientist to see if eating GM soya influenced the offspring of mice, could threaten the multi-billion dollar GM industry.
… GM Soy Soya Mice Gm Products Soya Food And Farming Health Science And Technology …
Stuck on a path of long-term economic decline, by 2024 the US will be a has-been country.
The US work force - one foot in the Third World Paul Craig Roberts | 1st September 2005 News China US Future US Decline US China US Society Archive_95.jpg Stuck on a path of long-term economic …
You do if… you live in an area where healthy food is either non-existent or too expensive. This is likely to be the case if your only ‘local’ food shopping option is a supermarket, and you have no good small independent local shops, farmers’ markets or box schemes serving your area.
… Green Lifestyle Green Living Food And Farming Food-desert_MAIN.jpg You do if… you …
Aspartame is the most controversial food additive in history. The most recent evidence, linking it to leukaemia and lymphoma, has added substantial fuel to the ongoing protests of doctors, scientists and consumer groups who allege that this artificial sweetener should never have been released onto the market and that allowing it to remain in the food chain is killing us by degrees.
… | 30th August 2005 News Aspartame Food And Farming Health investigates.jpg Aspartame is …
Scientists mapping the effects of deforestation in the Amazon are increasingly concerned that we are reaching a tipping point – when the forest will start to die back of its own accord and rain, currently generated by the Amazon forests, will stop falling, not just in neighbouring countries but as far afield as the United States and South Africa.
A stake through the heart of the world Peter Bunyard | 1st July 2005 News Amazon Greenpeace Rainforest Action Network Survival International Rainforest Concern Soya Deforestation Climate Change …
An open-air performance of La bohème in a Surrey park. Mimi is dying, her lover is distraught, the audience can hardly breathe for emotion. Puccini’s opera reaches its unbearably poignant climax…
Lessons from Nature Episode 3: Parakeets Anthony Wall | 1st December 2005 News Parakeets Wildlife Conservation Population Control Animal Intelligence Natural World Archive_15.jpg An open-air …
Anyone serious about making poverty history needs to understand where poverty actually comes from and what it really is.
New Emperors, Old Clothes Vandana Shiva | 1st July 2005 Comment Poverty Famine The End Of Poverty Third World Jeffrey Sachs Free Trade Famine Human Rights Violations Famine Society Archive_80.jpg …
Are SUVs a crime against civilisation, or paragons of efficiency? Are they ugly, arrogant and antisocial, or bright, beautiful and mobile? And do the polar passions they arouse pit the politics of envy against the Americanisation of British culture? Paul Kingsnorth and Michael Harvey discuss
Debate: Sports Utility Vehicles (4x4s) Michael Harvey Paul Kingsnorth | 21st May 2005 Comment 4x4s SUVs Transport Cars Petrol Road Oil Incineration Landfills Community Climate Change Interview_15.jpg …