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
Category: farming
Resisting Resistance
A US-UK trade deal threatens to export the horrors of US corporate livestock production
We Can’t Keep Eating Like This
This is the question everyone should be attending to – where is the food going to come from?
Insectageddon
The scale and speed of environmental collapse is beyond imagination.
The Meat of the Matter
Farming animals is as unsustainable as mining coal.
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.
Explanation of the Figures in Grim Reaping
This explains how the rough estimates of the area occupied by sheep in the UK were derived.
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.
Trickle-Down Theory
How the government learnt absolutely nothing from the recent floods.
Going Downhill Fast
How public money and crazy policies speed water off the land and into our homes
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.