Category: farming

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

Insectageddon

The scale and speed of environmental collapse is beyond imagination.

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.

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.

Going Downhill Fast

How public money and crazy policies speed water off the land and into our homes

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.