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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 [...]
Filed under: Environment, Milk Monday, Vegetarian | Tagged: Agriculture, Animal welfare, Business, Dairy, Food, Greening, Lifestyle | 8 Comments »
(c) 2010, Seymour Jacklin. Every single individual can make changes in their household, work and family life that will help to reduce their “carbon footprint.” The idea of a carbon footprint is an extension of the term “ecological footprint”, which was an indication of how much land was required to sustain a given human population. [...]
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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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The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but rather, “Can they suffer?” (Jeremy Bentham) I was delighted to learn last week that the good people of Farmaround are offering “Slaughter Free Milk”. Here’s the blurb from their website: Dairy cows have an average life expectancy of 17 years. However, once they [...]
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Here is a picture of the inside of my refrigerator at the moment. Is this what writing does to you? Leaves you with so much cold, white space to feed your starving artistic temperament? No. Although I was pretty startled to look in there and see it so empty, I think this is the inevitable [...]
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