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I know this “Milk Monday” post is finally getting posted on a Tuesday, but it has been an exciting week of developments in the ongoing Milk Wars in the British Isles with Nocton announcing a significant scale down in the proposed factory farm in Lincolnshire. Regarded by many as a triumph of public opinion, I [...]
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“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Warning: this video contains graphic footage that viewers may find upsetting. This is a compilation of footage secretly filmed at seven randomly chosen red-meat slaughterhouses in the UK and it’s release coincides [...]
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I have been asked a few times recently to explain the link between our western meat (and by extension, dairy) habit and the problems of poverty and starvation on a global scale. Generally, I tie myself in knots because of the complexity of the connections. Any explanation is going to be an over simplification but [...]
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Morning! I was going to do a piece for today using some facts and figures from the dairy trade press and talking about the implications for animal welfare. In summary it seems that although milk prices are good, there is serious concern over the availability of forage and this is what is most on farmers [...]
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It seems I have accumulated enough bile to write about the dairy industry a few more times, so welcome to “Milk Monday” - a series that will run for as long as I have enough verbal ammo. I am prompted to write about this again by the resubmission of plans for Britain’s first Battery Dairy [...]
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I spent a lovely couple of hours picking wayside raspberries last evening with a few good folk from The Durham Fruit Group. This group is a growing network of people in the Durham environs who are connecting over local fruit, wild and cultivated. Among other things, we are currently mapping fruit trees and soft fruit [...]
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