Is Agriculture in Crisis?
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Moo Woo
What we want to believe and what is true are seldom the same thing.
Dry Run
The mega-droughts in Spain and the US are a portent of a gathering global water crisis.
Outrage Farming
What led the Prime Minister to join a protest against his own government’s policies?
Agrarian Populism
Farmers’ protests are being embraced by the far right. The precedents are chilling.
Bully Beef
The meat industry’s misinformation tactics are even worse than the fossil fuel industry’s.
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
All Hat and No Cattle
The spectacular implosion of a popular delusion about livestock farming.
Scapegoat Season
Instead of addressing our multiple ecological disasters, those with power are attacking wildlife defenders.
Meatwashing
Claims that cattle ranching sequesters carbon and restores ecosystems have been used in highly effective marketing campaigns by the livestock industry. Just one problem: they’re greenwash.
The Hunger Gap
A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.
Hard Landing
A self-perpetuating political spiral is blocking the easier ways of preventing environmental collapse.
So What Would You Do?
Those who dismiss this solution to the greatest threat to Earth systems have a duty to propose a better one. So where is it?
Fermenting a revolution
I believe this is the most important environmental technology ever developed. It might be all that now stands between us and Earth systems collapse.
Silence of the Lambs
Livestock farming is responsible for more greenhouse gas pollution than all the world’s transport. Yet governments won’t touch it.
The Art of Life
Why is life treated as less valuable than the depiction of life?
The Sacking of Britain
Liz Truss’s destruction of the fabric of our nation is not an accident. It’s the design.
The Coming Hunger
As environmental breakdown threatens to render large parts of the planet unfarmable, how can mass starvation best be averted?
Unholy Cow
The world’s most damaging farm products? Organic pasture-fed beef and lamb.
Shit Creek
New revelations show how one of the most treasured rivers in Europe is being killed by intensive livestock farms.