The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing.
Category: food
Mutually Assured Depletion
The EU, Norway, Iceland and the Faroes all blame each other for smashing the last great fish stock. All are wrong.
Has-Beans
The government and the industry promised that they had dealt with aminopyralid poisoning. They haven’t.
The Press Gang
How to make and store your own apple juice.
Strong Meat
A new book has forced me to reconsider my views on food.
Towering Lunacy
Green enthusiasm for vertical farms shows that no one is untouched by magical thinking.
Strange Fruit
A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own.
Manufactured Famine
A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.
The Pleasures of the Flesh
If you care about hunger, eat less meat.
A Cunning Plot
How to grow vegetables without breaking your back
The Last Straw
A new generation of biofuels turns out to be another environmental disaster
An Agricultural Crime Against Humanity
Biofuels could kill more people than the Iraq war.
The Road Well Travelled
Are we already shutting our minds to the consequences of climate change?
Feeding Frenzy
Why is it still acceptable to eat the endangered large predators of the sea?
A Lethal Solution
We need a five-year freeze on biofuels, before they wreck the planet.
The Water Boom Is Over
Global freshwater supplies could start to determine whether or not we can feed ourselves.
Not Enough Fish in the Sea
Not Enough Fish in the Sea We need omega-3 oils for our brains to function properly. But where will they come from?
Feeding Crime
If governments really want to improve law and order, they should ban adverts for junk food
Worse Than Fossil Fuel
Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth
Growing My Own
Boycotting the superstores means taking on five allotments