Octopus farming? This extraordinary and intelligent animal should stay in the ocean
By any measure, octopuses are remarkable: they have eight legs, three hearts and blue-green blood....
Stop the billionaire fossil fuel moguls leading us to destruction
With COP27 under way in Egypt, we have to ask: is South Africa — and the world — going to recognise the perilous position we are in and take action? ...
The King’s clear thinking on climate change will be missed at COP27
It seems a fitting descriptor for a period that has seen a global pandemic followed by a brutal new war in Europe, a cost-of-living crisis and political turmoil with three UK prime ministers in three months....
Live More Sustainably – Top 10 Books On Sustainability
How to be sustainable in our everyday choices is one of the biggest questions of the 21st Century. From our travel to our food, it can be a lot to consider in terms of changing the way we live. ...
LBC Radio – Meat, factory farming and saving the planet – Interview Part 2
Have you changed or would you change your diet to do your bit to help the planet?...
LBC Radio – Meat, factory farming and saving the planet – Interview Part 1
Have you changed or would you change your diet to do your bit to help the planet?...
Pumpkins rotting in fields like zombies are a reminder of the terrifying cost of food waste
Children dart excitedly through a field strewn with bright orange pumpkins. Parents, gamely face-painted as ghouls, sip coffee as they await the return of their offspring....
BBC Scotland – The Nine
The UK is facing the biggest ever outbreak of bird flu. It has already laid waste to many populations of wild birds - particularly those along the coast....
This is what is happening at fantastic Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival
The return of Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival this week promises – as always – a stellar line-up of literary names in the intimate setting of Harrogate’s Crown Hotel....
The business of staying in business
I’m often asked what the role of business should be in creating a sustainable future? I see business as a critical change maker, whether it be on climate, nature, health, or animal welfare....
Sottish Review – Marcy Leavitt Bourne
The loss of land through erosion brings to mind a recent book, Sixty Harvests Left, by the CEO of Compassion in World Farming, Philip Lymbery. He echoes Reeve's findings, that the terrible circular loop of cutting forest, growing crops for animals, then expanding cattle farming into the previously pristine forest only results in the washing away of the soil and the degradation of the land, which clogs and pollutes the rivers. ...
20 Books on Food and Agriculture to Read this Fall – Food Tank
Philip Lymbery responds to the United Nations’ continuous warnings on soil erosion in Sixty Harvests Left. Lymbery travels across the world to expose the effects of industrialized farming on unprecedented topsoil depletion....
Avian flu ravaging Scotland’s wild birds began in poultry farms
Covered head to toe in hazmat suits, gloves and facemasks, sombre figures comb clifftops and tidelines searching for corpses....
Bloomsbury Interview with Philip Lymbery
Speaking to Bloomsbury Editor Kieron Connolly, Philip explains why factory farming is economically inefficient, how the Parmesan in your fridge is just another industrially farmed product and how regenerative farming and new technologies can save us....
Liz Jones’ Book of the Week
Sixty Harvests Left is Liz Jones' Book of the Week on her podcast...
Thank you Interview with Evanna Lynch: ‘Everything in My Own Words’ – The Italian Rêve (theitalianreve.com)
Well, it’s books for starters – I want to read them all at once! Currently I’m switching between Sixty Harvests Left by Philip Lymbery, Who Cares Wins by Lily Cole, How Veganism Can Save Us by Emma Hakansson and also Sacred Sex by Gabriela Herstik,...
Too late to do nothing – The Whistler
Gilly Smith talks to Philip Lymbery about his book Sixty Harvests Left...
Bisons’ reintroduction to UK will turbo-charge the restoration of nature
“You ready?” said an excited official before gently pulling back steel gates to reveal a somewhat bemused bison....
The Oxford Literary Festivals’ 25th anniversary celebrations
Sixty Harvests Left may be considered as completing a trilogy, following the successful (and very readable) publication of previous bestsellers, Farmageddon and Dead Zone. ...
Wandering Ewe Dairy – September
Amongst all the noise, there have been two publications this year that point the way for the future of agriculture in this country, and for our small enterprise here. ...
Interview: Philip Lymbery and Deborah Meaden
Sixty Harvests Left may be considered as completing a trilogy, following the successful (and very readable) publication of previous bestsellers, Farmageddon and Dead Zone. ...
If we’re serious about the climate crisis, being cruel can no longer be an option
“Code red for humanity” is how the UN Secretary-General described the latest scientific warnings about climate change. ...
How humanity has turned Earth’s Garden of Eden into a world in decline in less than a lifetime
This has been a big week for me with the launch of my latest book, Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-friendly Future....
UK Home To Over 1,000 ‘Mega’ Factory Farms, New Investigation Reveals
Mega-farms housing hundreds of thousands of animals are becoming more prominent across the British countryside...
Food for thought: how we are farming our way to disaster
In his new book Sixty Harvests Left, Scotsman columnist and CEO of Compassion in World Farming Philip Lymbery argues that industrial farming methods are endangering the planet ...
Food for thought – Sixty Harvests Left Extract
How we are farming our way to disaster....
‘We promised to look after the soil but we screwed it up. Now the soil is biting back
After decades of wastefulness and over-consumption, society is now facing the consequences of living “as if there is an endless summer”, according to animal advocate Philip Lymbery....
We have to change how we farm and eat to save the human race.
By 2040, the world’s population is predicted to rise to nine billion—and we all need to eat. Enter a new generation of bright ideas, novel protein sources and radical farmers. ...
Investigation reveals UK has over 1,000 mega-farms in livestock-intensive farming boom
More than 1,000 US-style factory farms are unraveling across the UK. New data reveals that some of the massive farms hold as many as a million animals. ...
LATEST NEWS
Latest #Media – Avian flu ravaging Scotland’s wild birds began in poultry farms
Latest #BigTable podcast – Philip talks to Peter Egan about Veganism
Latest Guest podcast with Philip – New Books in Economics: Sixty Harvests Left
Latest #BigTable blog – If animals could talk
Dame Joanna Lumley shared the stage with Philip on Saturday 2nd April, to deliver the 2022 Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture. She delivered an outstanding lecture on ‘The True Meaning of Compassion’. If you missed it, please use this link to view a film recording
Chris Packham CBE, delivered the Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture at The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on Sunday 7th November 2021. If you missed the lecture, please do watch it here.