Held at Bristol Harbourside and celebrating its 10th anniversary, Europe's largest organic festival is a feast of food, drink and fabric that doesn't cost the earth
… Organic food comes of age at Bristol's Organic Food Festival Eifion Rees | 26th August 2010 Ethical Living Green Living Food And Drink Organic Soil Association Phil …
PHOTO GALLERY: A pocket-sized book highlights some of the super-sized problems associated with the way we feed ourselves
… 12 shocking facts about your food Eifion Rees | 7th September 2010 Ethical Living Green Living Food Drink Little Book Of Shocking Food Facts Livestock Farming Fish Gallery …
A Unison survey of UK meat hygiene inspectors found that, last year, 51% of respondents had been the victim of bullying and harassment. One inspector said the situation was so bad he had considered suicide. Campaigning reporter, ANDREW WASLEY investigates
… and intimidation in abattoirs threatens food safety checks Andrew Wasley | 19th April … reporter, ANDREW WASLEY investigates Food safety and animal welfare checks in … hygiene inspectors and vets working for the Food Standards Agency (FSA) endure regular …
With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic
… News Investigations Science And Technology Food And Farming Crops Korea Madagascar … Kenya Breabasket Foreign Agriculture Africa Food Production Food China Neo-colonial Laos Saudi Arabia …
Genetically modified food is flooding into the UK through the back door. Few consumers know that the meat and dairy products they eat may have been made from animals fed a diet containing GM crops.
… How GM food is finding its way into your diet Andrew Wasley | 22nd February 2014 News Gm Food Farming Food GMOs milking.png Genetically modified …
UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different
… it being linked to conflicts over land, food security and growing hunger in developing … with poor soils, thus not competing with food production. But, according to … has been given over to jatropha, threatening food security. Promised incomes have also …
A radical experiment in community supported agriculture is attempting to break farming's reliance on fossil fuels and unsustainable practices. Andrew Wasley met green farmer Ed Hamer for this exclusive extract from The Ecologist Guide To Food.
… Andrew Wasley | 28th January 2014 Comment Food Farming Fossil Fuels Community … exclusive extract from The Ecologist Guide To Food. The countryside around the village of … In the village centre there's a packed wholefood cafe and health food shop that sells lots …
UK purchased £1bn of beef from firms tied to Amazon deforestation.
… 2019 News Editor’s Picks Beef Imports Food And Farming Amazon Deforestation Thought … McDonald’s, Burger King and other huge fast food chains around the world, bought cattle … have been accused of deforestation — Minerva Foods and JBS — was directly imported to the …
US researchers behind a study that showed links between gas drilling and sickness in livestock say a moratorium should be imposed on fracking in the UK until its impact on food safety can be assessed. Andrew Wasley reports
… Fracking poses risk to UK farm animals and food safety, experts warn Andrew Wasley | 17th September 2013 News Fracking Energy Food And Farming News Investigations Gas Dairy Farming Food Safety hunger after miling endless …
Organic baby food company Ella's Kitchen is already big in the UK and Scandinavia, and now aiming to crack the US. Co-founder Alison Lindley discusses the difficulties of keeping it green during a period of meteoric growth
… Alison Lindley Paul Lindley Baby Children Food Banana Organic ek-logo.jpg Organic baby food company Ella's Kitchen is already big in … level. The company creates the kind of baby food parents wish their ankle-biters would …
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 Giriraja
… Development Industrialised Farming Food Factory Farming Farming Food Security Natural World Food And Farming The_Forest_King_MAIN.jpg It …
UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different. Andrew Wasley reports
… it being linked to conflicts over land, food security and growing hunger in developing … with poor soils, thus not competing with food production. But, according to … has been given over to jatropha, threatening food security. Promised incomes have also …
Eifion Rees reports on the group bringing the heart back to supermarkets with a rooftop vegetable garden
… Eifion Rees | 26th July 2011 Activism Food And Farming Gardening Supermarkets … hopes to rectify. Growing communities The Food from the Sky community growing project is … compost tumblers full of Budgens' out of date food, purple pod beans wave in the breeze. …
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. Andrew Wasley reports
… meat Andrew Wasley | 13th October 2009 News Food And Farming Genetic Modification Soya … use of pesticides, deforestation and rising food insecurity. The film, Killing Fields: the … groups including Friends of the Earth, Food and Water Watch and with European …
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence
… meat Andrew Wasley | 13th October 2009 News Food And Farming Genetic Modification Soya … use of pesticides, deforestation and rising food insecurity. The film, Killing Fields: the … groups including Friends of the Earth, Food and Water Watch and with European …
Much of our meat and dairy produce is made from animals raised on GM feeds. Alarming new claims suggest that the GM diet is affecting animal health - prompting fears over human safety. Andrew Wasley reports ...
… 28th November 2013 News Gm Animal Health GMOs Food Farming Investigations News Food Safety Livestock … in cattle, says farmers - and the wider food industry including supermarkets - should …
The illicit supply of clams, cockles and oysters could spark a serious outbreak of food poisoning from E.coli, novovirus or salmonella. But gangmasters are cashing in on the lucrative trade. Andrew Wasley reports
… at risk Andrew Wasley | 30th May 2012 News Food And Farming Gangmasters Exploitation News … and oysters could spark a serious outbreak of food poisoning from E.coli, novovirus or … with tonnes of potentially contaminated seafood feared to be entering the food chain, an …
Jordans cereal bars and Warburtons bread have been found to contain traces of glyphosate - a controversial herbicide that campaigners say poses a risk to human health. Andrew Wasley reports ...
… 31st December 2013 News Pesticides Glyphosate Food Farming News GMOs Food Safety GM Crops warburtons.png Jordans … bread, bakery products, cereal bars and other foodstuffs. Safe, pure and wholesome? …
Brazil sent a million salmonella contaminated chickens to the UK in two years.
… Alexandra Heal | 3rd July 2019 News Chicken Food And Farming Brazil Bureau Of … five of its birds are contaminated with the food poisoning bug salmonella. The country … the elderly. Risk The head of the Brazilian food safety authority has admitted that the …
An essential in pasta sauces, soups, stews and pizza toppings tinned tomatoes are one of our most popular foods. But many arrive as a result of slave like conditions endured by thousands of migrant workers in Italy. Who should we blame? By Andrew Wasley
… to blame for the 'slavery' blighting our food? Andrew Wasley | 10th October 2011 Comment Food And Farming Supermarkets Tomatoes Comment … tinned tomatoes are one of our most popular foods. But many arrive as a result of slave …
Faced with threats, draconian gagging laws and even violence, journalists and activists investigating the secrets of the global food industry tread a dangerous path, says Andrew Wasley. Additional reporting by Sarah Stirk
… Andrew Wasley | 21st October 2013 News Food And Farming News Investigations … investigating the secrets of the global food industry tread a dangerous path, says … gloves and other filth. Stifling the food scoops Things could have been very …
Regulatory failures are allowing Danish pigs infected with lethal antibiotic-resistant bacteria into British farms, writes Andrew Wasley, with contaminated pork found in UK supermarkets, and three human infections recorded. The official response? Deny there's a problem, take no action, and hope for the best. Six people may have died from the bug in Denmark, but the UK is safe, surely?
… pigs get into Britain unchecked, contaminate food chain Andrew Wasley Bureau of … Journalism | 14th October 2016 News Health Food Farming UK Denmark EU Regulation piglets … from the Danish Ministry of Environment and Food, said that the official MRSA screening …
Amnesty International report calls for urgent action to tackle 'widespread' abuse of migrants in the food sector. This follows two Ecologist investigations into 'slave labour' connected to the Italian tomato and orange harvests. Andrew Wasley reports
… investigations editor | 4th January 2013 News Food And Farming Politics And Economics … tackle 'widespread' abuse of migrants in the food sector. This follows two Ecologist … in the country's fields, greenhouses and food processing factories. The report focuses …
Thousands of British farm animals are subjected to needless pain and distress - six times a day on average - as they are slaughtered according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
… Wasley Josh Robbins | 30th August 2016 News Food And Farming Welfare Animal Cruelty Abbatoirs RSPCA Food Standards Agency pig carcasses.jpg … The data - a log of reports submitted to the Food Standards Agency, the industry regulator …