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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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Would Being Vegan Really Solve Climate Change? Not if We Don’t Kill the Cows.

A friend of mine drew my attention to this NPR blogger, who makes the point that being “good” isn’t zero sum (a situation where what is gained by one side or cause, is lost by another). If you’re...

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Think You’re Brilliant? Don’t Just Say it, Prove it.

I recently had a long and rather tedious conversation with somebody who was trying to convince me that he was brilliant. I say tedious, because the conversation consisted of him telling me how...

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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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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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Activists tell me that I deserved to get aggressive breast cancer at 25 –...

I like to think that we live in a society where, as a whole, we are more tolerant than we were 50 or 100 years ago. Discriminating against people because of their race or gender is unacceptable,...

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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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Why have standards when you can have double standards?

Apparently it’s World Vegan Month (WVM). This may come as a surprise to those who have adopted vegan diets, not out of choice, but simply because they cannot afford or have access to animal products,...

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