How public money and crazy policies speed water off the land and into our homes
Category: farming
Pregnant Silence
It’s about time we discussed the real population crisis.
Strategic Incompetence
The agencies supposed to protect the living world have been neutered, and polluters and wildlife destroyers now have a free hand.
On Bullshit
The hideous pollution case I stumbled on illustrates our failure to see the harm caused by animal farming.
Rural Idiocy
The BBC’s coverage of the countryside is a biased, unquestioning, deferential disgrace.
The Abuses of Enchantment
The cruelties of factory farming shelter behind a fairytale image, promoted by advertisers and children’s authors.
Fowl Deeds
The astonishing, multiple crises caused by chicken farming.
Ploughing On Regardless
Almost all other issues are superficial by comparison to soil loss. So why don’t we talk about it?
Piggery Pokery
A winter’s tale that won’t put you off your dinner. Much.
Overgrowth
Every child should visit an abattoir. If you disagree, ask yourself why.
Eat Meat and Save the World?
Allan Savory tells us that increasing livestock numbers can reduce desertification and reverse climate change – but where is the scientific evidence?
Another Silent Spring?
Neonicotinoids appear to have devastating effects across the natural world: we need a global moratorium.
Ripping Apart the Fabric of the Nation
In an extraordinary coup, farmers’ unions and the UK government have torpedoed the European Soil Framework Directive
The Biogas Disaster
How the perverse consequences of a great idea are destroying the natural world.
The Benefits Claimants the Government Loves
Corrupt, irrational, destructive, counter-productive: this scarcely begins to describe our farming policy.
Muddying the Waters
How the government’s farming policies have produced a perfectly designed system for flooding your home.
Dredged Up
Never mind the evidence, we’ll do something eye-catching.
Drowning in Money
The hidden and remarkable story of why devastating floods keep happening.
Wrong About Being Wrong
The argument seems, once more, decisively to favour veganism.
The Landed Mafia
It’s time we confronted the National Farmers’ Union and the millionaires it works for.