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Photos of farmers – because we probably don’t appreciate them enough

June 17, 2015 animal ethics, animal rights, animals, beef, Books, chefs, chicken, cookery, cows, dairy, devon, eating, environment, ethical carnivore, ethics, Farming, Food, lamb, Meat, nature, pigs, pork, scotland, sheep, Uncategorized, vegan, vegetarian Comments Off on Photos of farmers – because we probably don’t appreciate them enough
Producers supplying Farmdrop, a kind of online farmers' market that provides Londoners with fresh produce.

Producers supplying Farmdrop, an online farmers’ market that provides Londoners with fresh produce.

Pork, chicken, lamb, beef, eggs, dairy – it all came from a farmer getting up early and working on your behalf – as these Farmdrop producers did. Here are some other farmers that I have met during research for my book The Ethical Carnivore. I will try and update it as I go along… Read more

Hitting the target – but not how you think – with the BBC & Scottish Field

May 15, 2015 animal ethics, animal rights, animals, arbroath, bbc, cookery, Country sports, deer, eating, environment, ethics, Farming, field sports, Food, game, highlands, Meat, nature, roe deer, scotland, scottish field, shooting, television, trees, vegan, vegetarian, venison One comment
My rifle skills are improving but does that mean I'll make a clean shot?

My rifle skills are improving but does that mean I’ll make a clean shot?

My year spent only eating animals I have killed myself has featured on the BBC and in Scottish Field, leading to some expected ribbing about ‘glamorous’ photos with guns and some unexpected conclusions about the nature of shooting. Read more

Gregg Wallace didn’t like my vegan shepherd’s pie, so I made a real lamb roast

December 10, 2014 animals, Books, chefs, cookery, eating, environment, ethics, Farming, Food, Gregg Wallace, lamb, Meat, nature, shooting, television, Uncategorized, vegan, vegetarian, wildlife Comments Off on Gregg Wallace didn’t like my vegan shepherd’s pie, so I made a real lamb roast

 

Wild soay sheep

Wild soay sheep

This blog is about to get bloody. Sorry, but I did say I was writing a book about only eating animals I have killed myself. This means at some point I will have to kill something. The point is to do it in as humane a way as possible and to educate people about where meat comes from.  Read more

Are genetically modified organic community-owned farms the future?

September 30, 2013 Farming, Food Comments Off on Are genetically modified organic community-owned farms the future?
Microdosing crops with fertiliser using a bottle cap

Microdosing crops with fertiliser using a bottle cap. Copyright Gordon Conway

It was a perfectly nice day out in the Suffolk countryside but the organisers of Aldeburgh Food Festival decided to liven things up with a ‘Frankenstein’. As Sir Gordon Conway pointed out to the audience at Snape Maltings he was part human, part pig. Read more