WHY FOOD POVERTY HAS NEVER BEEN HIGH ENOUGH ON GOVERNMENT LIST OF PRIORITIES AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Food inflation has made getting enough food a growing struggle. According to The Trussell Trust, who operate more than 1,300 food banks across the UK, the past year has seen demand for emergency food surge by over a third.
A Tribute To Our Faithful Companion, Duke – December 2011 – 20th August 2023
Duke came to us as a tiny rescue pup of ten weeks old. He’d been abandoned in a park with his sister on a cold winter’s day. The heroic folks at South East Dog Rescue in Kent took them in
Why Government Must Act to Stop the Ticking Timebomb That Is Bird Flu
Highly pathogenic Bird flu continues to rage through poultry farms and wild birds alike. The virus has already proved adept at jumping the species barrier, spilling over from birds into mammals such as otters, foxes, sea lions, and even domestic
Fixing Our Broken Food System Will Take Urgent Action, Not Least In Ending Industrial Animal Agriculture
Why We Should All Get Behind the UN’s Call for Food System Transformation
Why Rome Burning In The Summer Heat Means Fiddling With Food Has To Stop
Boy, was it hot in Rome! In July, front-page news was the weather: ‘Rome hits record high in European heatwave’, was one such headline. In sharp contrast to the exceptionally wet July in Britain where Scotland’s rain was 50
Have a heart for hard-pressed chalk streams
Some of the best things in nature are understated – take the chalk streams of England, for example. These fragile river systems meander quietly through undulating countryside before disappearing into the sea.
How our gardens can become sanctuaries for wildlife
A garden left to rewild Amongst the many celebrations of the coronation of King Charles III, one that particularly caught my eye was about wildlife-friendly gardening. Paying tribute to the monarch’s longstanding commitment to the natural world, the Coronation Gardens for
Are the major faiths turning a blind eye to animal suffering?
A special guest blog from Joyce D’Silva. All over the world animals are suffering, billions of them in factory farms, others undergoing painful experiments
WHAT AMERICA’S GREEN LIGHT FOR ‘LAB-GROWN’ CHICKEN, COULD MEAN FOR OUR APPETITE FOR MEAT
Food history has been made in America this month with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) having authorised the sale of cultivated chicken - chicken grown from stem cells in a bioreactor.
TWO COMPASSIONATE SOULS UNITED IN LOVE FOR FARMED ANIMALS
This month sees the launch of a very special biography that tells the little-known story of two brave pioneers who founded Compassion in World Farming. Part biography and part modern modern-day animal welfare history, the story is of a couple