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This Innovative Proposal Could Clean Up our Rivers – So Why is Whitehall Ignoring it?
The plan could reduce pollution, create jobs, reduce imports, while also helping the UK meet its net zero targets
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Ammonia Land: Agricultural Development and Pollution ‘Gone Rogue’ in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland’s environment agency has lifted a controversial ‘pause’ on dozens of new livestock farming developments – despite ongoing probes
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Farmer’s Weekly Exclusive: Mass Food Fraud and Safety Scandal Engulfs Sector
An in-depth investigation by Abi Kay has revealed that a food manufacturer was passing off huge quantities of foreign pork as British
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‘Big Agricultural Firms are Plunging the Food System into Crisis’
Influential agribusiness monopolists and food producers appear to be cynically using the war in Ukraine and the aftermath of the pandemic to exert political influence, writes Thomas Perrett
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A City Caught Between Industrial Change and Climate Change
Sam Bright examines how Britain can learn from the city of Groningen in the Netherlands, and how our recent political history provides a warning to the Dutch establishment
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‘Not Actually Very Good’: Britain’s Post-Brexit Trade Agreements with Japan and Australia
Ellie Newis reviews two of the flagship agreements that were supposed to reignite the UK economy
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‘Brexit Freedoms Bill’ Can’t Reverse What We’ve Already Lost
As the Government proposes new laws to unshackle the UK, Sam Bright reviews the fundamental freedoms that have already been lost due to Brexit
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How Levelling Up, Brexit and the Ukraine War are Intertwined
Sam Bright explores how Brexit has exposed Britain to the reverberations of the war in Ukraine
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The Tide Is Turning Against Hunting
Claire Hamlett considers the impact of the vote by National Trust members on the future of the hunting lobby
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A Pig’s Ear? Brexit Christmas Chaos and a Confused Immigration Policy
Pork butchers were already welcome to the UK on the Government’s new Skilled Workers Route, as it launches a short-term scheme for butchers on seasonal workers visas
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Government Rejects Meat Consumption Reduction Climate Target
Stuart Spray explores the links between climate change, meat production and why the Government has refused to implement the recommendations of its own watchdog
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Big Livestock Corporate Interests Dominate United Nations Summit
Jack McGovan reports on the strength of animal agriculture firms and efforts to convince investors to divest from the sector
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Can Biden Face Down the Agribusiness Industry which Drives Climate Change?
Unless the US President’s ‘Green New Deal’ deals with the stranglehold that big business has on food production, his climate emission targets aren’t going to be met
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The Government Must Face Down Big Business and Put Nature First
Dominic Dyer considers why the Cabinet reshuffle could be a crucial moment in the effort to restore the environment after 50 years of damage and depletion
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‘Farms Will Not be Able to Survive This’: Farmers Speak Up About Brexit’s Damaging Impact
As the details of Boris Johnson’s trade deals are unveiled, two farmers spoke to Byline TV about the pessimistic post-Brexit future of their industry
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The UK-Australia Trade Deal: A Tale of Brexit Insanity
Otto English dissects the disadvantages that a free trade agreement between the two countries would bring to the UK
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The Upside Down: The Lie of the Land
John Mitchinson explains why we should listen to the farmers and why their plight deserves our attention
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The People Fighting the UK’s Factory Farm Expansion
Claire Hamlett speaks to the activists taking councils to court over intensive farming
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Brazil’s Dangerous Use of Pesticides is a Danger to the Whole World
Brazilians are facing severe health problems from using pesticides in farming and it is an issue that goes far beyond the country’s borders reports Monica Piccinini
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The Price of Cheap Meat: The US Food Giants Eyeing up Brexit Spoils
Tom Scott reports on the US agribusiness giants that have infiltrated the UK market, and the opportunity provided by Brexit for the further expansion of these ruthless firms
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Why the UK Could be the Source of the Next Pandemic
Intensive chicken farming in the UK is generating dangerous new viruses, reports Claire Hamlett
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The Other Global Health Crisis: Highly Hazardous Pesticides and Brexit Britain
Monica Piccininii reports on attempts to ban the export of dangerous chemicals, subverted by agrichemical businesses in the US and UK
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‘A Complete Tragedy’: Badger Cull Expansion Threatens Vaccination Efforts
Claire Hamlett speaks to exasperated vaccination volunteers after 64,000 more badgers are threatened with a cull
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Why I Was Willing to be Arrested, Protesting Against Tufton Street Climate Deniers
Rupert Read spent last night in the cells, after joining Extinction Rebellion activists outside 55 Tufton Street
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The Repression of Indigenous Chile
Carole Concha Bell reports on how the Mapuche indigenous community is being tyrannised by far-right groups, multinationals and the Government
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Greed and Destruction: COVID-19 Isn’t Slowing the Demolition of the Amazon
Monica Piccinini reports on the relentless felling of forest habitats by Brazilian big business and Government
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‘Invasive Power’: Lords Condemn Attempts to Wrest Controls from Scottish Parliament
David Hencke reports on how a dispute over the distribution of payments to farmers is leading to a wider clash between Holyrood and Westminster
