14 Jan FFA Food Systems Podcast
In this episode we talk to Philip Lymbery, CEO of Compassion in World Farming and author, about sustainable and humane meat consumption, lab-grown...
11 Jan More companies sourcing cage-free eggs
Demand for cage-free eggs continues to grow in North America and Europe as ever more businesses commit to remove cage-produced eggs from their sourcing policies....
06 Jan First ever sale of cultured meat heralds protein’s new era
Food lies at the heart of many a celebration, but one particular meal recently stood out as historic: the world’s first commercial sale of cultured meat. Just weeks after the nation’s regulatory authority gave cultured meat the go-ahead, Singapore’s 1880 club served the first cultured chicken...
31 Dec Health, Hope and the Road Ahead
There is something refreshing about a new year. Many of us start with new resolutions or new ideas. It’s a time when people plan fresh starts. We look to make changes in our lives, to be inspired....
21 Dec An interview with Philip Lymbery – CEO of Compassion in World Farming
WHAT IS FACTORY FARMING? Essentially factory farming, the intensive rearing of animals in cages, crammed in confinement is not only the biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet, it’s also a major driver of declines of wildlife, and the very thing which is taking...
18 Dec One Health, One Welfare, One Planet
As I sit down to write this end of year message, I reflect on the most challenging and tragic of years. Yet I also reflect on the essence of what makes us human and connects us all around the world – our ability to have...
17 Dec Lab grown meat is here – but would you eat it?
As Singapore approves the sale of cultured meat, we pick over the bones of the health and ethical implications of 'fake meat'...
11 Dec How to Love Food and Save Nature
As a lifelong naturalist who lives on a farm, I am acutely aware of how food, nature and the countryside are interlinked. Only this spring, I watched a field being ploughed, only to discover that the soil had no worms. The local gulls that follow...
11 Dec Looking back on Life and Lockdown
2020 has been a tough year. It’s hard to put it into words. What started on an optimistic note, welcoming in the New Year, soon changed with the advent of Covid-19, as it spread around the globe with devastating effects....
07 Dec Why world’s first approval for cultured meat is good for us all
In the world of food and sustainability, news doesn’t come much bigger than the first ever regulatory approval for the sale of cultured meat. In early December, San Francisco-based Food tech company, Eat Just, Inc., announced that it had been given the go-ahead to sell...