Taking its title from a chilling warning made by the United Nations that the world's soils could be gone within a lifetime, Sixty Harvests Left uncovers how the food industry threatens our world. Put simply, without soils there will be no food: game over. And time is running out....
The Conservatives had promised in their manifesto to stop the barbaric practice of sending young calves and other animals on horrific, over-long journeys abroad...
Critics say government U-turn means tens of thousands of dogs, cats, kittens, sheep, calves and primates will still suffer without legal protection...
Food is responsible for about a third of greenhouse gas emissions but rarely gets a mention ...
Organised by Compassion in World Farming in partnership with a number of organisations, including IPES Food and BirdLife International, the Extinction or Regeneration conference took place at the QEII Centre in London this May....
For many, eating animal products involves some cognitive dissonance. Americans tend to think that the farmed animals we eat were treated better than they actually were...
Exploring an untamed landscape can be exciting for those who love nature ...
The Canary Islands will soon host the world’s first industrial octopus farm. But there is no humane way to slaughter these intelligent, sentient creatures....
BBC Wales, Wednesday, April 26, 2023...
I’ll never forget my summer road trip through the land of gastronomy. I spent several days touring Italy’s most fertile agricultural valley....
Intervista con il direttore di Compassion in World Farming: “Ogni anno circa l’1% del territorio globale si deteriora”...
For many years, I consciously chose veggie dishes from restaurant menus and avoided buying cheap supermarket meat. I ate ‘minimal meat’ for environmental reasons. But it was only when I spent a stomach-wrenching four hours observing a porpoise post-mortem that I resolved to stop eating animals completely....
14 Aprile ore 18 la Feltrinelli Bologna Via Ravegnana 1 Philip Lymbery presenta Restano solo sessanta raccolti interviene la giornalista e autrice Sabrina Giannini Venerdì...
“Restano solo sessanta raccolti” rilancia un allarme dell’Onu: l’agricoltura iper-intensiva dilava e insterilisce i suoli, causando anche un aumento della CO2 in atmosfera, e intervenire con più chimica e più tecnologia non risolve il problema...
L’autore di “Farmageddon” presenta “Restano solo sessanta raccolti”, nuova e documentata ricerca che dimostra come l’agricoltura e l’allevamento industriale stiano mettendo a repentaglio l’aria che respiriamo, l’acqua che beviamo, il cibo che mangiamo, indicando le vie alternative attraverso cui costruire un futuro rispettoso della natura e dell'ambiente....
Intervista a Philip Lymbery, autore anche di Farmageddon...
Shopping these days can feel like a bit of a lottery. Wandering into the local supermarket can have me wondering which of my favourite foods is going to be out of stock today....
Soil produces 95% of our food, so we all have a stake in a growing movement to improve its health - Waitrose Weekend...
Interview with Philip Lymbery, also author of Farmageddon - greenMe...
The other day, a close friend told me a story from her childhood about an old, worn cigar box containing a hundred pieces of rolled paper, each one with a saying....
As a lifelong wildlife enthusiast passionate about animals, I’ve always been drawn to the countryside. I love living on a farm, being immersed in the folds of a rural setting where things look different every single day....
Nel suo ultimo libro Philip Lymbery, direttore di Compassion in world Farming, spiega come invertire il trend che ci sta portando alla carestia. E dice la sua sui grilli nel piatto e la carne coltivata in laboratorio...
It’s been a year now since my neighbourhood journey into standing up for trees began. It started as so many things do for me these days, on a dog walk....
Cultivated meat is, according to Philip Lymbery, Chief Executive of animal welfare charity Compassion in World Farming, ‘humanity’s version of something that nature has already given us’. Noting that it’s produced in a bioreactor ‘from stem cells harmlessly drawn from donor animals’, Lymbery says lab-grown meat is therefore a ‘game-changer’ because it replicates nature ‘without the slaughter’....
So, here’s a question for you: would you eat meat not from a cow, but grown in a vat? ...
Experts gathering for a ground-breaking international conference on food systems are this Friday, on World Pulses Day (10 February), encouraging people to adopt diets packed with pulses to benefit the health of people, animals and our planet – and save money....
Otters have become the latest victim of highly pathogenic avian influenza, marking a new low in this ongoing catastrophe for wildlife....
I love living on a farm. I’ve always wanted to be immersed in the folds of a rural setting, a place where things look different every day....
The first month of the year is often rife with resolutions. This year, among the usual suspects is a rising commitment to sustainability across every aspect of our lives — from the way we travel to the we eat....
Number soars from 800 to at least 1,100 in only five years....
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Deborah Meaden and Philip took to the stage of the Sheldonian in Oxford in September to mark the launch of ‘Sixty Harvests Left’.
It was a great evening, please use this link if you’d like to watch it: Sixty Harvest Left event at the Oxford Literary Festival – YouTube
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.