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.
Will England allow its iconic and rare chalk stream habitats to be trashed by pollution?
Like the Scottish uplands, England’s chalk streams have become an iconic destination for many countryside lovers
Insect Farming Isn’t Going to Save the Planet
Raising animals intensively for food is the biggest source of animal cruelty on the planet. It also happens to be a major emitter of greenhouse gases, responsible for up to 37 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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
Gardens can become sanctuaries for wildlife and help reverse the decline of nature
Pesticides and the ripping up of hedgerows and flower meadows has turned much of our countryside into a wildlife desert in recent decades
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