Category: farming

The War Against Small Farms

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

It’s not “cheap food” but big profits which are to blame

Mark Purdey’s hypothesis is the only one which explains the spread of BSE

Farmers should be campaigning for more expensive fuel

The supermarkets could kill organic farming’s potential to revolutionise the foodchain

The Competition Commission has given the superstores permission to destroy the rest of Britain’s food economy

Astonishingly, it’s more productive than high-tech agriculture

How the Ministry of Agriculture tried to silence me

The corrupt Ministry of Agriculture is deliberately wiping small farmers out

It’s time to go back to the land

Reforming farm subsidies won’t do any good – we must scrap them

Old plant varieties have been criminalised by a series of draconian laws intended to protect big corporations

Only by killing all of Haiti’s pigs could the US force its people to abandon their self-sufficiency

BSE is just one symptom of the insanity governing British agricultural policy

Many of the world’s most pressing problems arise from the enclosure of land.

The “Tragedy of the Commons” is one of the modern world’s most dangerous myths.

A peasant farmers’ project in the western Amazon might hold the key to protecting the forests