Toxic chemicals deliberately added to sewage are being spread across a vast area of farmland, with potentially catastrophic effects. We’re suing the government to stop it.
Category: farming
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
What’s Your Poison?
Why do we put up with daily assaults on our health? It has everything to do with corporate power.
All Hat and No Cattle
The spectacular implosion of a popular delusion about livestock farming.
Fantasy Farming
Bucolic fairytales are a threat to life on Earth.
Down the Drain
Sewage pollution by the water companies is just one of the deadly attacks on our rivers.
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.
How to Build a Bioweapon
There’s a legal means of creating a pandemic that could kill millions.
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?
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 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.
Muckraking Journalism
When sewage treatment goes right, it’s just as harmful as when it goes wrong. Here are the shocking reasons why.
The Plough’s Share
We won’t defend ourselves from the global food crisis by destroying what remains of our wildlife.
Shitstorm
Our team uncovers the remarkable, but scarcely understood, truth about river pollution.
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.