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Mark Hix & Peter Gott – Rooting For Real Farms - 26th Jun 2017

Mark Hix’s quest for traditional British farm produce led him to Peter Gott’s stall in Borough Market where he was introduced to pork from Peter’s wild boar who spend their lives rooting and grubbing in mixed woodland above the farmhouse. The taste was a revelation, and Peter has been supplying Mark’s expanding chain of restaurants… continue reading

Damian Clisby & Harry Boglione – Rooting For Real Farms - 21st Jun 2017

Harry Boglione, who supplies his parents’ restaurant Petersham Nurseries with organic meat and vegetables from his farm in Dorset, told us that when he decided to become a farmer his dad thought it was ‘a complete and utter disaster’ but after a couple of years he changed his mind and became a bit envious, wishing… continue reading

Is the BBC promoting factory farming? - 21st Apr 2017

Is the BBC promoting factory farming? BBC Countryfile recently ran a very important story about the rise of antibiotic resistant diseases in pig farms, and the potential risk to human health like antibiotic resistant bacteria passing from pigs to humans. The programme suggested that a solution had been found on a Danish farm that used… continue reading

Farmdrop – The Proper Way To Shop - 12th Dec 2016

Farmdrop – The proper way to shop We have partnered with Farmdrop to run a Facebook competition where you can win £100 worth of delicious food and drink in time for Christmas. We chose them for our competition because we buy their weekly box and it is so fresh and delicious that not a leaf… continue reading

News digest 07.12.16 - 7th Dec 2016

Rare superbug found on pig farm — and no one knows how it got there A “nightmare” superbug has been found on a US pig farm — and researchers haven’t figured out the source of the potentially deadly bacteria. Using food waste as pig feed Farm animals consume over a third of global crops but… continue reading

Towards Greener Pastures: Farming after Brexit - 25th Nov 2016

Towards Greener Pastures: Farming after Brexit Whether you voted for Brexit or not, this is the moment to begin reshaping the food system in the UK. Our divorce could give us the opportunity to rid ourselves of a system of subsidies that serves a centralised system of production and distribution and that rewards only the… continue reading

Guest Blog – Buying Meat: The Questions to Ask Yourself, by Amelia Freer - 21st Nov 2016

We each approach life with a vastly different set of ideas, beliefs, concerns and expectations which guide our decisions. Respecting such differences in opinion is important in all walks of life, but I think it is particularly important when it comes to nutrition. What is right for one person may be wholly wrong for another. I… continue reading

News digest 09.11.16 - 9th Nov 2016

Stop telling me not to eat meat: we should all be flexitarians There are compelling reasons to forgo meat – but it’s delicious. Campaigns such as Meat Free Monday show a realistic way forward Where did this little piggy come from? With the recent detection of the MRSA superbug in samples of supermarket pork, Anna… continue reading

News digest 06.10.16 - 6th Oct 2016

Revealed: MRSA variant found in British pork at Asda and Sainsbury’s Tests find UK-produced pork products infected with the livestock strain of the superbug, with potentially serious implications for human health How superbug-infected pigs get into Britain unchecked Pigs infected with the superbug MRSA can be freely imported into the UK due to regulatory loopholes,… continue reading

Antibiotic resistant superbugs found in factory farmed pork - 6th Sep 2016

13. We are facing a crisis of terrying proportions...

After decades of pumping antibiotics into livestock to compensate for inhumane and disease-inducing conditions, bacteria are now fighting back. A new survey of factory farmed UK pork from supermarkets found that 63% of pork samples were contaminated with antibiotic-resistant E.coli, bacteria that cause life-threatening kidney infections and blood poisoning. Pigs in factory farms are so… continue reading

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