Category: food

The Meat of the Matter

Farming animals is as unsustainable as mining coal.

Global trade once made us rich. Now it unleashes a full-spectrum assault on our well-being.

Why I took the plunge at last and converted (almost) to veganism

The joints of meat that do more damage than a long-haul flight

It’s about time we discussed the real population crisis.

How I caught a glimpse, through the unlikely medium of roadkill, of what lies beneath.

New evidence suggests that obesity might be incurable. So why does the government propose to punish sufferers?

Almost all other issues are superficial by comparison to soil loss. So why don’t we talk about it?

Every child should visit an abattoir. If you disagree, ask yourself why.

The argument seems, once more, decisively to favour veganism.

Isn’t it about time the media stopped publishing recipes for threatened fish?

The evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to the food industry is strong and growing.

The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing.

The EU, Norway, Iceland and the Faroes all blame each other for smashing the last great fish stock. All are wrong.

The government and the industry promised that they had dealt with aminopyralid poisoning. They haven’t.

How to make and store your own apple juice.

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.

A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own.

A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.