Category: food

The Last Straw

A new generation of biofuels turns out to be another environmental disaster

Biofuels could kill more people than the Iraq war.

Are we already shutting our minds to the consequences of climate change?

Why is it still acceptable to eat the endangered large predators of the sea?

We need a five-year freeze on biofuels, before they wreck the planet.

Global freshwater supplies could start to determine whether or not we can feed ourselves.

Not Enough Fish in the Sea We need omega-3 oils for our brains to function properly. But where will they come from?

If governments really want to improve law and order, they should ban adverts for junk food

Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth

Boycotting the superstores means taking on five allotments

The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster

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

The superstores are mopping up the last pockets of resistance

We cannot feed the world’s livestock and the world’s people.

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

The Nuffield Council has produced the most asinine biotechnology report ever written

The world is being run by a group of fanatics, who’ll destroy anything for the sake of “free” trade

A proposed new tax will make life even harder for the independent foodstore

The biotech company threatens Africa with starvation

The US government is trying to ban organic farming – on both sides of the Atlantic