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For all the animal, farming, food and environment news from January and February, please use this great update

From news about nitrogen pollution to the live animal export ban, to bringing back beavers and the growth of mega-farms , plus a whole lot more…

Opinion Articles

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  Nitrogen: Diet and food waste key to tackling one of the great pollutants of our time
  Nitrogen pollution is a large contributor to the triple planetary crisis of climate, pollution, and biodiversity loss.
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  We must halt the invasion of the US mega farm to our countryside
  Old MacDonald has a lot to answer for.
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  Beaver releases: Protesting Cairngorms farmers get things out of proportion
  Beavers and landowners can sometimes come into conflict but these situations can be managed
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  10 years after ‘Farmageddon’ – signs of hope for nature-friendly agriculture
  Emergency approval for a bee-harming pesticide by the UK Government has once again sent shock waves through the countryside
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  Live animal export ban is a resolution the UK Government must keep
  Thirty years after protests against live animal exports, the UK is on the cusp of making a historic change

Blogs

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  THE PLANETARY HEALTH DIET 
  Like on Social: How our food choices can protect health, restore nature and shape a fairer future What if the way we eat could help heal the planet, improve our health and ensure future generations thrive? That’s the bold promise… Read more: THE PLANETARY HEALTH DIET 
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  IF WE DIDN’T HAVE THE UNITED NATIONS, HERE’S WHY WE’D HAVE TO INVENT IT
  Like on Social: Even Under Fire, the UN Remains Our Best Hope Imagine a world without the United Nations. No global forum for diplomacy, no coordinated response to humanitarian crises, no shared commitment to peace, human rights, or sustainable development.… Read more: IF WE DIDN’T HAVE THE UNITED NATIONS, HERE’S WHY WE’D HAVE TO INVENT IT
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  GHOST’S FINAL GIFT: A CALL TO KEEP OCTOPUSES WILD
  28 Like on Social: Why octopus farming threatens animal welfare and ocean health Ghost came from the waters of British Columbia weighing only three pounds. Since then, this extraordinary giant Pacific octopus has been captive in the Aquarium of the… Read more: GHOST’S FINAL GIFT: A CALL TO KEEP OCTOPUSES WILD
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  Look What’s Possible When We Give Nature Space to Thrive
  4 Like on Social: The Butterfly that feasts on decay – and dazzles us all Did you know there’s a butterfly that prefers cowpats, rotting animal corpses and dirty nappies to flowers?  Surely with preferences like that they must be… Read more: Look What’s Possible When We Give Nature Space to Thrive
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  BETWEEN TWO SLICES: THE SURPRISING STORY AND ETHICS OF THE SANDWICH
  How many of us know that dining was forever changed by a compulsive gambler?

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Up and Coming Speaker Events

• 7^th Feb: Residence Palace, Brussels
• 16^th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, Animal Welfare in World Religion  
• 16^th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, The Politics of Food
• 16^th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture
• 16^th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival: Cultivated Meat – will it help our Future? 
• 11th April: Harting Society 
• 21st May: Farm Animal Congress in Brazil (online) 
• 31st May: Hay Festival, Wales 

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