13 Apr We and the animals, the wrong choices
If I could, I would force big meat eaters to visit a factory farm. Starting with the smell that burns the nostrils and makes you want to vomit....
31 Mar The Deadly Cruelty Of Live Animal Exports
You'd be forgiven for thinking that it's just designer furniture, cereal, cotton, oil, gas and miscellaneous gifts like Rubik's cubes, that have been caught up in the modern day, marine traffic jam in the Suez Canal. ...
31 Mar Big Table Round Up | March 2021
Following Philip’s appointment this past month as a United Nations Food Systems Champion for the world’s first Food Systems Summit, we talk fish and travel the globe from the USA to the UK and from the Artic to Asia, to understand how our world is...
30 Mar BBFAW update: Global food producers lead animal welfare efforts in 2020
The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW), a globally recognised investor framework for assessing companies' performance on farm animal welfare, has released its annual report for 2020....
29 Mar Restoring Life On Earth
[caption id="attachment_18955" align="alignright" width="350"] Reforming food systems is key to protecting wildlife in all its forms, like this kingfisher on my local river | Credit: Philip J Lymbery[/caption] The focus of this year’s global Earth Day is on how we can restore our Earth. Between 20th and...
27 Mar Animal welfare: Fish are complex, emotional and intelligent beings and yet we treat them so cruelly
When I look back over three decades of progress on the way we treat animals, it has been heartening to see how attitudes and understanding have evolved to insist on better treatment....
27 Mar If fish had fur
When I look back over three decades of progress on the way we treat animals, it has been heartening to see how attitudes and understanding has evolved to insist on better treatment....
26 Mar Unravelling The Food Chain
April 14th 2021 Episode of the Food Foundation’s Right2Food podcast hosted by Delicious magazine. Here Philip talks about the gaps in the food system that COVID has revealed and his role as UN Food Systems Summit Champion -...
26 Mar Fish are complex, emotional and intelligent beings and yet we treat them so cruelly.
When I look back over three decades of progress on the way we treat animals, it has been heartening to see how attitudes and understanding have evolved to insist on better treatment....
22 Mar A new future for food
As a lifelong naturalist who lives on a farm, I am acutely aware of how food, nature and the countryside are interlinked. The other day, I managed to capture on film my first face-on barn owl whilst out walking. It was a very special moment....