By Kelsey Patterson and Anders Lorenzen This is our first in a series of climate-friendly recipes – collaborating recipe content with chefs, Influencers and bloggers. Below we are featuring US-based food blogger Kelsey Patterson’s broccoli and spinach salad. You can learn more about Kelsey and find more recipes on Sigsbee Street and her Instagram. Below are Kelsey’s words about the […]
By Omair Ahmad Indian farmers are pushing for the legalisation of a historic pricing mechanism that built India’s food security, but the problems they face demand far more. Leaders of farming associations have been protesting for the legalisation of a minimum support price for their crops to guarantee their livelihoods. Photo credit: Alamy / AP Photo / Altaf Qadri. As […]
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There are many reasons to not eat some foods, and the intelligence of the animal may a key factor. It’s time to cut octopus out of our diets. They have exhibited complex problem solving abilities and the ability to feel pain. If we don’t eat dolphins, we certainly should not be eating octopus. Print or share We Earthling posters to […]
Many popular foods are hard on the environment, even before they are processed and packaged because they require immense amounts of water. Let’s look at four popular foods we can replace in recipes with water-responsible alternatives. Though water scarcity might not affect you today, you can help conserve water by choosing different foods. Only 3% of the world’s water is […]
By Jeremy Williams “At the risk of seeming unreasonable, may curses rain down on the fair-weather vegan,” began a recent article on meat eating from a certain national newspaper. It went on to lambast ‘fake’ vegans, or ‘fegans’. Sales of meat alternatives are falling, and “we should have known the vegan-newbies would turn out to be a bunch of flakes.” […]
By Jeremy Williams I was on holiday on the South Coast this summer, and when I’m by the sea I like to read about it. This time I chose Vincent Doumeizel’s The Seaweed Revolution, which is a book I have been anticipating for some time. I expect ocean farming to be one of the big stories of this century, an […]
Javier Ramiro, Co-Chief Scientific Officer at Ekonoke controls the plantation of hops. Photo credit: Reuters / Juan Medina. By Anders Lorenzen Hydroponics, the vertical-farming technology which uses water and not soil to grow plants, and which is primarily used for growing plants indoors, could come to the rescue of one of the most popular drinks in the world; beer. Recent […]
In recent decades, the Ayoreo people have been forced to leave their ancestral lands in the Paraguayan Chaco, but 150 members remained uncontacted. Photo credit:: Fotografías Nuevas / Flickr, PD. By Flávia Milhorance Report shows US and EU financiers back meat firms in Paraguay whose activities put Ayoreo people at risk. In 2022, an isolated Indigenous group disappeared in the Brazilian Amazon. With the […]
Kevin Loria joins the conversation to talk about his recent Consumer Reports article about PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), in grocery and restaurant foods, “Dangerous PFAS Chemicals Are in Your Food Packaging.” The magazine found PFAS in the majority of 100 food packaging materials they tested, including off-the-shelf foods at grocers and Burger King, Chick-fil-A, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and other […]