Category: farming

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.

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.

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