OF GHOSTS, GHOULS AND FOOD LEFT TO ROT
Children dart excitedly through a field strewn with bright orange pumpkins. Parents gamely face-painted as ghouls, sip coffee as they await the return of their offspring. Soon they’ll be sifting through wheelbarrows piled high with pumpkins waiting to be carved.
Pumpkins rotting in fields like zombies are a reminder of the terrifying cost of food waste
Children dart excitedly through a field strewn with bright orange pumpkins. Parents, gamely face-painted as ghouls, sip coffee as they await the return of their offspring.
BBC Scotland – The Nine
The UK is facing the biggest ever outbreak of bird flu. It has already laid waste to many populations of wild birds - particularly those along the coast.
This is what is happening at fantastic Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival
The return of Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival this week promises – as always – a stellar line-up of literary names in the intimate setting of Harrogate’s Crown Hotel.
The business of staying in business
I’m often asked what the role of business should be in creating a sustainable future? I see business as a critical change maker, whether it be on climate, nature, health, or animal welfare.
Sottish Review – Marcy Leavitt Bourne
The loss of land through erosion brings to mind a recent book, Sixty Harvests Left, by the CEO of Compassion in World Farming, Philip Lymbery. He echoes Reeve's findings, that the terrible circular loop of cutting forest, growing crops for
WHY ‘EXTREMELY CONCERNING’ WILD BIRD DEATHS ARE THE TRUE COST OF ‘CHEAP’ CHICKEN
Covered head to toe in hazmat suits, gloves and facemasks, somber figures comb clifftops and tidelines searching for corpses. It’s an all too familiar scene, particularly in these pandemic times. Yet, this was no twist of Covid. Instead, it was
20 Books on Food and Agriculture to Read this Fall – Food Tank
Philip Lymbery responds to the United Nations’ continuous warnings on soil erosion in Sixty Harvests Left. Lymbery travels across the world to expose the effects of industrialized farming on unprecedented topsoil depletion.
Avian flu ravaging Scotland’s wild birds began in poultry farms
Covered head to toe in hazmat suits, gloves and facemasks, sombre figures comb clifftops and tidelines searching for corpses.
IF ANIMALS COULD TALK
‘What a lovely place the world would be…’ - the immortal words of Doctor Dolittle when he sang ‘If I could talk to the animals’.