Egg sector hailed for making ‘massive strides’ to cage-free
The egg industry is making 'massive strides' towards cage-free egg production, according to Compassion in World Farming's latest assessment.
Rewilding Scotland’s wildernesses should be accompanied by ‘renaturing’ its farms
Some things stay with you forever – like my first ever sighting of a golden eagle. I remember it like yesterday.
The super-heroes of soil: Why the world under our feet matters and why it is under threat
How many of us stop to think of the subterranean marvel below us, when we sit on the grass, go for a run or walk in a park? It’s hidden from view and often ignored, yet is fundamental to our
We need to talk about food and farming if we are to avoid a planetary tailspin
As we head into winter, I’m reminded of the strange happenings on the Arctic-archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, Russia, where a snow-covered rubbish dump was being ransacked by polar bears.
Antibiotic resistance: Misuse of these vital drugs on factory farm animals poses a serious threat to modern medicine
Of late, we’ve been getting used to shortages of things we’ve previously taken for granted, like petrol, gas, toilet rolls, HGV drivers and seasonal labour. Could it be that we’re about to add a new item to that list: antibiotics?
COP26 climate change summit: World is making serious mistakes in bid to stop dangerous global warming
As the great and the good packed their bags and left Glasgow last weekend, we were left picking through the plethora of promises and pledges made by our world leaders during the two weeks of climate talks.
COP26: WHAT COMMS AND PR TEAMS SHOULD KNOW
‘We have fires, floods and droughts in all corners of the Earth currently. Many, many people are suffering in the Global South already with famine and untold hardship – our world is only heading one way. To be frank, Mother
COP26 climate change summit: We can make our own hope by taking action over our diet
The “last best chance to keep 1.5 alive” was how the COP26 climate summit was being seen, creating a huge focus for our collective hopes for the future.
Cop26 is overlooking an oven-ready solution to global warming – an end to emission-spewing factory farming
As world leaders have now departed the Glasgow’s Cop26 climate talks and left their negotiators to roll up their sleeves and get on with it, I couldn’t help noticing that they’d missed a huge trick in the battle to tackle
Why even Boris Johnson can see that plant-based alternatives to meat have a big part to play in cutting emissions
For the next two weeks, Glasgow will become the centre of the world, or at least the epicentre of the battle for the planet.