Category: farming

Robber Barons

Why do we ignore the most blatant transfer of money from the poor to the rich?

Why do farmers’ groups indulge in such ridiculous scaremongering about the restoration of the natural world?

How Britain has been shagged by the white plague.

Robbing the poor, trashing the natural world: Europe’s farm subsidies are an obscenity.

The poorest taxpayers are subsidising the richest people in Europe: and this spending will remain uncut until at least 2020.

The governments of both the UK and Wales could almost be trying to turn bovine TB into a pandemic.

A new book has forced me to reconsider my views on food.

Green enthusiasm for vertical farms shows that no one is untouched by magical thinking.

As the new badger cull shows, we revert to irrational destruction as soon as our economic interests are threatened.

It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production.

Peasant farmers offer the best chance of feeding the world. So why do we treat them with contempt?

They bleat about the free market, then insist that we subsidise them.

If you’re buying Brazilian beef, the answer is yes

An insane European ruling will be the final straw for the English apple

Tony Blair has just ensured that Europe and the US continue to promote famine.

Britain’s development secretary is helping to destroy the lives of 20 million people.

The junk food king says one thing and does another

By appointing Lord Haskins to oversee “rural recovery”, the British government will complete the destruction of the countryside

Mark Purdey’s explanation of the origins of BSE is gathering weight