Unlike tea and sugar, the fresh milk we drink with our cuppa is likely to come from farms in the UK. But as Tom Levitt reports, there are still serious environmental and animal welfare problems associated with the UK dairy sector
… farms dotting the countryside Unlike tea and sugar, the fresh milk we drink with our cuppa … Revealed: the bitter taste of Cambodia’s sugar boom Sugar may seem innocuous enough, but …
The West is exporting diabetes and heart disease to poor countries, along with the processed foods that line the shelves of global supermarkets warns UN advisor Olivier De Schutter
… junk foods high in saturated fats, salt and sugar The West is exporting diabetes and heart … junk foods high in saturated fats, salt and sugar. According to a report from UN food … and taxes on foods high in fats, salt and sugar like soft drinks. He argues for a ban on …
Jordans cereals founder Bill Jordan says his company's method of farming can feed the world and safeguard biodiversity
… to your cereal, but what about added sugar? When we started in 1972 a lot of the … ingredients that have flavour of their own. Sugar is different. We've always been annoyed … intrinsic (natural) and extrinsic (added) sugar content in food has never been …
Pastoralism is in crisis across Africa. But it could yet survive as the best available defence against climate change and famine. Tom Levitt reports from southern Ethiopia
… of coffee beans, butter, milk, oil and sugar. The majority of people here in the … farming and large-scale plantation projects - sugar and wheat. The polar opposite of the … revenues, unlike, for example, tax-paying sugar plantations, a change in policy seems …
Just as biofuels have gobbled up farmland that should have been growing food so the push on biomass by Monsanto, Cargill and others will see an 'unprecedented' grab on land, plants and biodiverse-rich forests
… Monsanto Tropical Deforestation Natural World sugarcane.jpg Sugarcane expansion has led to the destruction … adds Thomas. Citing the example of sugar cane in Brazil, Thomas says the …
Lab-grown meat could solve the environmental and ethical problems of industrial agriculture. But will anyone want to eat it?
… from an animal. These were fed a mixture of sugars, amino acids and blood from unborn … an algae-based diet, as opposed to the mix of sugar and umbilical cord blood that Post used. …
High-street customers could be subsidising the role of Barclays Capital in driving up global food prices and leaving millions facing hunger and malnutrition, says campaign group. Tom Levitt reports
… the price of key commodity crops like coffee, sugar and wheat, the Ecologist has learnt. By …
Targets for increasing the use of biofuels to power cars, trains and buses will result in more ecosystems being converted to agriculture - actually increasing carbon emissions, says new report
… from food crops, such as oil seeds, palm oil, sugar cane, beet and wheat. The study, …
Undercover footage of Portuguese rabbit farms shows the grim reality of intensive factory-style rabbit farming, which may now make a comeback in the UK
… a bad taste in the mouth Unlike tea and sugar, the fresh milk we drink with our cuppa …
The documentary Bananas! highlighted plight of Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who brought a legal case in the US against the use of a banned pesticide DBCP by the Dole Food Company. Tom Levitt reports
… regions and there is also a lot of sugar - so a lot of different crops using …