Our team uncovers the remarkable, but scarcely understood, truth about river pollution.
Category: farming
Watery Grave
Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed.
Saving Our Bacon
Farmfree foods might be the only thing that gets us – and much of the rest of the living world – through this century.
Spectre at the Feast
The livestock industry is trashing the living world, and free-range, pasture-fed meat is the worst offender.
Farmed Out
The government’s Agriculture Bill seeks to replace regulation with public money. Who will contest this new protection racket?
Seal of Approval
How an animal welfare charity ended up endorsing seal killing – and what this says about our age
Butchery of the Planet
Defending the living world and its people requires a shift from meat to a plant-based diet
Payments for Not Mugging Old Ladies
This is George Monbiot’s response to the government consultation document Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit
Resisting Resistance
A US-UK trade deal threatens to export the horrors of US corporate livestock production
We Can’t Keep Eating Like This
This is the question everyone should be attending to – where is the food going to come from?
Insectageddon
The scale and speed of environmental collapse is beyond imagination.
The Meat of the Matter
Farming animals is as unsustainable as mining coal.
Fell Purpose
The attempt to turn the Lake District into a World Heritage site would be a disaster
Grim Reaping
Brexit could wreck the British countryside – or it could save it. It depends on getting our voices heard.
Explanation of the Figures in Grim Reaping
This explains how the rough estimates of the area occupied by sheep in the UK were derived.
The Hills Are Dead
The terrible legacy of European farm subsidies – and how we could use Brexit as an opportunity for something better
Stock Answer
Why I took the plunge at last and converted (almost) to veganism
Punishment Posting
Want to cast someone into the outer darkness? Then give them the environment department, that should be the most important portfolio of all.
Leave Well Alone
Those who want to leave the EU refuse to make the most crushing argument against it. Here’s why.
Trickle-Down Theory
How the government learnt absolutely nothing from the recent floods.