Consumers could be doing far more to help combat global food wastage with relatively little effort according to a new study showing that every year, a third of all food produced ends up being binned. LAURA BRIGGS reports
… Food Waste - who's to blame? Laura Briggs | 27th January 2017 Ethical Living Food Waste Recycling Consumer Choice … could be doing far more to help combat global food wastage with relatively little effort …
How can we bridge the gap between ‘fast food' living and responsible consumption when mass production and a throw-away mindset still dominate the lifestyles of most people? LAURA BRIGGS has some thoughts...
… The Food Paradox and our collective role in it... … 2017 Ethical Living Organic Allotment Farming Food Consumer Choices allotment.jpg How can we bridge the gap between ‘fast food' living and responsible consumption when …
With the diversity of food crops falling dramatically and just three giant corporations controlling over 75 per cent of the global seed supply, it's no wonder people feel disconnected from their food. LAURA BRIGGS learns more about a new UK Seed Co-operative which aims to redress the balance
… No Seed... No Food Laura Briggs | 10th May 2017 Ethical Living Seed Food And Farming Biodiversoty Resilience seed cooperative.jpg With the diversity of food crops falling dramatically and just three …
We are what we eat. Concerns about climate change, environmental stress and animal welfare mean that what we eat is an ethical as well as a health issue. LAURA BRIGGS meets two women promoting the new Wildevore diet, claiming it improves the health of the individual, and the world in which they live
… aims at educating followers about where their food originates from. Health problems Think … need to understand the consequences of food choices. In the Wildevore approach, meat … for many vegans, is a hormone disrupting food and can cause our own reproductive …
The Soil Association is calling on bread producers and supermarkets to stop making and selling bread products that contain traces of Glyphosate. LAURA BRIGGS reports.
… Soil Association Bread Campaigning Food And Farming glyphosate in bread.jpg The … findings, in May 2016 a joint meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the … a panel of experts on pesticide residues in food and the environment and the World Health …
A once quiet voice, hard to distinguish against the grinding machine of intensive food production is now shouting above the noise. LAURA BRIGGS reports on the growing interest in grass as a feeding option
… Laura Briggs | 18th July 2016 News Farming Food Livestock Grass-fed Industrial Farming … against the grinding machine of intensive food production is now shouting above the … revolution to "get back the food we deserve". Known foremost for his …
Seaweed is known for its culinary uses and has seen a renaissance in past years thanks to its health claims and a distinctive taste - but there are more ecological benefits to seaweed that currently remain untapped.
… Living Seaweed Biofuels Energy Animal Feed Food And Farming seaweed.jpg Seaweed is known … the EU and although already widely used in food, marine scientists believe this demand … China, Korea and Japan growing the most for food. Extract of seaweed is found in a huge …
If you live or spend time in the UK countryside it may have been some time since you spotted the native brown hare - if you've ever seen one at all. That's because the hare relies on an increasingly disappearing biodiverse landscape for its food. LAURA BRIGGS talks to the scientists behind a new study investigating what type of planting - including bioenergy crops - will help stop hare populations from continuing to decline
… disappearing biodiverse landscape for its food. LAURA BRIGGS talks to the scientists … entirely on biodiverse landscapes for their food but as a result of the intensity of … of farming, cutting off the hare's source of food and shelter. And with so many farmers …
The Save Our Magnificent Meadows partnership hopes to demonstrate the fragility and importance of our fast-disappearing Great British meadows.
… Meadows offer food and shelter to vast varieties of animals … With the average meadow offering shelter and food to a vast variety of animal species and … Common bird’s-foot trefoil alone is a food plant for 160 species of insects, which …
A review of Aaron Bastani, ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto’ published on 11 June 2019 by Verso Books.
… way of using finite resources to produce food". Ideally, we should completely eliminate … The Green Revolutionaries understood “that food is ultimately information” and that “information wants to be free”— ergo, food wants to be free. Their successors are …
The Vegan Society today launches its Plate up for the Planet to encourage people to abandon meat and dairy products, for their health, and for the health of the environment, reports LAURA BRIGGS.
… exploitation of and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.” The … vegan is believed to reduce an individual’s food-related carbon impact by up to 50 per … draws on the fact that to keep animals for food the industry drains precious resources …
The great acceleration - in GDP, population, cities, travel, deforestation, pollution - is on some metrics stuttering. What does this mean for a just transition?
… the gap is widening and this, in the form of food insecurity, has set the stage for famines … fuelling the accumulation process with cheap food, cheap labour, cheap energy, and cheap … the mid-nineteenth century , he notes, real food prices trended downward until they …
Christmas has become a festival of consumerism, rather than giving and family. So how do we fulfil the social expectation to find perfect, novel presents without sending more plastic to landfill. BRENDAN MONTAGUE and LAURA BRIGGS try and find some nice stuff that might just be a little more sustainable.
… Families who may have gone without food could look forward to one day of plenty. … well, to consume less? £ ££££ 1. Reindeer food If you’re thinking of gifts to make … for children – wildlife-friendly reindeer food. This recipe has a high calorific content …
No More Styrofoam presents the WooBox - a new alternative to the use of Styrofoam in food transportation - and a Serbian project that is supported by a crowdfunding campaign that launches today (1st June 2017). LAURA BRIGGS reports
… a new alternative to the use of Styrofoam in food transportation - and a Serbian project … box" for storing and packaging food and other goods, the WooBox is designed to meet all the requirements of the food delivery industry. Due to the thermal …
The first in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from the podcast Political Economy for the End Times.
… if state capacities were breaking down and food prices soaring at the same time? What … it would be a kind of Malthusian catastrophe: food production insufficient to feed the human … (The rich world would of course buy the food it needs.) But that’s misleading, for …
How should nation states respond to coronavirus and mitigate the crisis of capital?
… - setting up hospitals, distributing food, compensating wages from state funds … need, and ordinary people are setting up food banks and mutual aid networks. The … pervasive economic conflict and social pain. Food, then as now, was destroyed by the ton, …
Grow for Syria is a new UK-based campaign bringing gardeners across the South West together to fundraise for Syrian refugees by selling plants, seeds and other garden-related items. LAURA BRIGGS explains how you can get involved
… a sell-out. I think that reaching out through food and gardening, basic everyday pleasures … or no belongings left, let alone money to buy food, these refugees rely solely on the help …
Refugee Vartan Melkonian is a world-renowned conductor and spokesman for the UN. He speaks to LAURA BRIGGS about how being born a 'street slug' in a refugee camp in Lebanon shaped his life to mark World Refugee Day
… who have not lived on the street and found food in the rubbish bins, and cooked spiders … who have not lived on the street and found food in the rubbish bins, and cooked spiders …
'For the rich, much much less, while for the billions who lack the basics: more good food, better housing, abundant clean water...'
… the billions who lack the basics: more good food, better housing, abundant clean water...' … the billions who lack the basics: more good food, better housing, abundant clean water, …
If the thought of dropping a live lobster into a pan of boiling water horrifies you, then you're in good company including that of a new campaigning group that wants lobsters to be given the same animal welfare rights as other creatures. LAURA BRIGGS reports
… from the RSCPA watched workers at Nicholas Seafoods separating lobsters' tails from their … under its protections so that responsible food businesses can do the right thing." … by basic animal welfare principles: enough food, a suitable environment, and …
The Resurgence & Ecologist magazine has ditched the plastic wrap after a year of searching for the most sustainable solution.
… change the future.” Originally working with food packaging, the toughest nut to crack in … Andy Cross, who runs Earth Friendly Foodware, based in Devon, says part of the … Andy said: “Biodegradable straws get in the food chain quicker. They have metal in them, …
A review of Andreas Malm's Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century.
… not on ethical or aesthetic grounds, but for food efficiency and forest conservation—thus, … the need to supplement the wartime food supply and grew into a spontaneous vision … “that we should have summary executions, send food detachments into the countryside or …
Ecologist reporter, LAURA BRIGGS, joins the animal charities and volunteers gathered earlier this week on a secret mission - the release of 18 pairs of endangered dormice into the wild
… fed by volunteers whilst they learn to gather food themselves. When they are ready to be …
A unified scientific approach has been called for to help protect one of the most threatened ecosystems on earth. LAURA BRIGGS learns more about the unique ecosystem known as seagrass beds
… and invertebrate species; and provide a major food source for endangered species across the …