Food Fight
Review of Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet by Stuart Gillespie for The Literary Review, April 2025
Review of Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet by Stuart Gillespie for The Literary Review, April 2025
Splits in the food world might appear comparatively unimportant but, aside from mattering in their own right, food offers a perfect case study for how division arises, grows and might be healed.
ReadPhilosopher Julian Baggini steps into the fray—not to offer a trendy new diet or yet another hot take on organic farming, but to ask a deeper question: What does it mean to eat well?
ReadJust as a dry January won’t undo 11 months of over-drinking, Veganuary will not fix our fundamental over-reliance on calories from animals. What we need is not a vegan month but a more plant-rich year.
ReadPeter Singer brings a meaty argument to the Christmas table. And the moral philosopher’s account of the short brutal life of factory-farmed fowl is more just than a vegan polemic
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