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I Can’t Brie-lieve It’s Nut Cheese

Am I missing something, or have words ceased to have any meaning? Take the phrase “nut cheese”. Seriously. Now stop giggling like a 12-year old and actually think about it. Would you buy some nut...

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(Almost) Wordless Wednesday

Sheep’s head broth, brains in parsley sauce optional. Nostalgic foodies in happy-heirloom-beet-utopia claim that we shouldn’t eat anything that our Great-Great Grandmother wouldn’t recognise as food –...

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Bringing Home the Bacon – I’m a Cancer Survivor with Meat on the Menu.

This week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) classified processed meat as being carcinogenic to humans and red meat as a probable carcinogen. Bacon has become the darling of the foodie world over the...

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The Future’s Bright; The Future’s…Meaty? A Response to Breakthrough’s Essay...

This week I was asked to respond to an excellent Breakthrough article on the environmental impacts of beef production. As ever, I hope the comments below provide food for thought (pardon the pun) and I...

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Big, Small, Local, Artisan… Why We Need to Kick the Food and Farming Label Habit

Let’s think about marketing labels. The coffee I’m currently drinking is a new premium blend with fruity notes and hints of lemongrass, the tasting notes so extensive that I was tempted to swill it...

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Mutton Dressed as Lamb? “British” is a Regional Descriptor, not a Brand Name.

Celebrity chefs, farmers markets and media publications continually tell us that we should buy British food. In contrast to the 1990s yuppie ideal of airfreighted Icelandic strawberries in January,...

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Cattle, Cowgirl Boots And Cancer

Last week I was lucky enough to chat with the fabulous Will Evans, a Welsh cattle and hen farmer on his Rock and Roll Farming podcast. Unlike most of my media interviews, which are focus entirely on...

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Do Avatar characters eat cheese? James Cameron’s films may suspend disbelief,...

In our brave new world, where questioning authority and searching for truth are championed as positive attributes, it is ironic that we tend to follow predictable behaviour patterns when faced with new...

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One vegan does not a movement make – less than 3,000 omnivores confirmed to...

Well, the official numbers have been published for #Veganuary, the 2018 attempt to entice people away from meat and towards the heady delights of almond juice and bean curd. The campaign has been cited...

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Livestock provide food, income, education, cultural status…and hope.

I took the photo above while travelling in South Africa last year. Whenever I’m faced with the inevitable “But we can just grow corn and soy to feed humans!” anti-livestock rhetoric (as seen in The...

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