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Forget Widgets and Factory Farms – Beef Production is the Circle of Life
The Chipotle short film “Back to the Start” which was featured in a commercial break during the GRAMMY awards on Sunday has been one of the most discussed topics on Facebook and Twitter in the past...
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Eating Less Meat, May Not Help You To Live Forever…But It’ll Sure Feel Like It
I know Harvard researchers are smart, I really do. Yet I have to question the latest study reporting that eating red meat is associated with premature death. Published in the Archives of Internal...
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Are We Producing More Food…and Feeding Fewer People?
I’m ashamed to admit that the picture to the left is of the lunch table that a media colleague and I left last week – after spending an hour lamenting the fact that in the US, 40% of food is wasted...
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Scare Tactics – Why Do So Many “Public Health Experts” Promote Fear vs. Food?
How many of us are motivated by fear every single day? We’d like to think that we’re lucky enough to live in a society where we don’t feel afraid. In contrast to inhabitants of many war-torn regions we...
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Beef is Killing the Planet…and Elvis is Riding a Rainbow-Belching Unicorn
My Twitter feed just exploded. Yet another study has been released claiming that if we all just gave up beef, the planet would be saved, Elvis would come back from the dead, and rainbow-belching...
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Vegetarians May Preach – But We’re Not All Members of the Choir
The suggestion that we should eat less meat in order to save the planet pops up with monotonous regularity in my twitter feed. Interestingly, those who make this claim are almost always vegetarian,...
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Does Nature Really “Do Its Thing” on Organic Farms?
I am lucky. My fridge is full of food: mostly produced in the UK or Europe; all nutritious, safe and affordable; and almost all produced on conventional farms, with a small amount of organic food (in...
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Where’s the Beef? Not in Danish Diets.
For those of us in the UK, mentioning Danish livestock production almost inevitably leads to thoughts of Danish bacon (be still my beating heart) – a considerable proportion of their 90% of domestic...
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From The Archers to Antibiotic Resistance – Has BBC Radio 4 Lost the Plot?
Why is BBC Radio 4 blaming so-called "factory farms" for antibiotic resistance?
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In the wake of a seriously busy #Februdairy, where activist rhetoric was thrown around like confetti at a summer wedding (my personal favourite activist claim – milking cows just promotes patriarchal...
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