From food to fun, we've got the skinny on how to make this year's festivities the greenest ever
… The Ecologist guide to greening Christmas Ruth Styles | 1st November 2011 Ethical Living Christmas Eco Xmas Guide Food Gifts … annual spending and feasting frenzy that is Christmas. But the annual festive jamboree is …
Christmas dinner means only one thing for millions of us: turkey. But the intensively reared and genetically manipulated birds that most will consume this holiday season leave a nasty taste in the mouth
… Behind the Label: Christmas turkey Pat Thomas | 16th December … Ethical Living Green Living Behind The Label Christmas Turkey Factory Farm Vegetarian Meat … Red Tractor Quality British Turkey turkey.jpg Christmas dinner means only one thing for …
Naturally reared, free range turkeys are more flavoursome, says Irish chef Darina Allen. Here is her guide to cooking old-fashioned roast turkey with chestnut stuffing and bread sauce
… How to cook your Christmas turkey Darina Allen | 21st December … Free Range Darina Allen How To Cook Roast Christmas Turkey daylesford_turkey.jpg An … of farmers' wives rearing turkeys for the Christmas table. They'd get a couple of dozen …
In a Behind the Brand special, Peter Salisbury assesses whether Bernard Matthews has cleaned up its act following undercover investigations revealing 'shocking' cruelty and the notorious avian flu H5N1 outbreak
… What's the real cost of Bernard Matthews Christmas turkey? Peter Salisbury | 20th … 2011 Ethical Living Bernard Matthews Turkey Christmas Animal Welfare RSPCA Behind The … Food And Farming holding.jpg Many of the Christmas birds we eat are intensively reared …
Pile of leftover turkey driving you crazy? Here's our guide to dealing with it the eco-friendly way
… With the stress built up during the run-up to Christmas, leftovers are the last thing you … the £275million spent on wasted food this Christmas will give you reason to take note. … Reheat For the ultimate snack, the ultimate Christmas sandwich is where it's at. Some like …
Britain's long-suffering nuclear bomb test veterans have once again had justice denied to them, writes Chris Busby, by a shocking piece of judicial chicanery in London's High Court in which the judge whimsically excluded all the scientific evidence that did not suit the Ministry of Defence. But the veterans' fight for justice and scientific truth continues, facing its next test in the Court of Appeal.
… also mailed to just one person just when the Christmas post could be trusted to delay it … in this case showed what really happened at Christmas Island. Like the USA at the Bikini … this meant there was little or no fallout on Christmas Island. But this was only the low …
This summer families of atom bomb test veterans who have died of cancer took the UK government to the High Court for its failure to compensate them, writes Chris Busby. Also on trial was the 'official' radiation risk model, which understates the true health hazards of internal exposures by a factor of 1,000. But 17 weeks after the case, litigants and veterans are still awaiting judgment.
… of late Barry Smith, who was stationed at Christmas Island in 1958/59 after the bomb … atomisation of the eight tons of Uranium over Christmas island, and various lesser … experience was the nuclear test sites. For Christmas Island, new evidence was presented …
Chemical giant Bayer has failed in its attempt to sue Friends of the Earth Germany over its claims that its pesticide Thiacloprid harms bees. Now pressure is growing on the EU to add the neonicotinoid to the three already banned.
… for the bees and freedom." Just before last Christmas Bayer took out a restraining order …
UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This represents a serious breach of our Common Law and Magna Carta rights.
… were declared in advance of events such as a Christmas lights switch-on in Lancaster city …
Last week David Cameron backed down over his plans to bring back fox hunting by 'fatally amending' the Hunting Act, writes Dominic Dyer. The way he spun it, it was all about SNP interference in English law, but the real problem was opposition within the Conservative Party, which increasingly sees blood sports as a barbaric relic that alienates voters of all persuasions.
… to a free vote in the House of Commons before Christmas. Things aren't what they used to be …
The apparent conspiracy by the UK government and its agencies to conceal the real cause of death of 7-year old Zane Gbangbola may go right up to Prime Minister David Cameron, writes Paul Mobbs. He was chair of the COBRA emergency committee at the time when it appears to have held back the truth that he was killed by cyanide from the toxic landfill site his home was built over.
… be submitted to his investigation before Christmas. That is likely to require action by …