Brinkmanship or insanity?
“If the government does forget about agriculture, if they do flood us with cheap ingredients that would be illegal for us to produce here, it would make what happened to coal and steel look like a walk in the park.”
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Tag: Food
Hard-Brexit could spell disaster for British farmers
We have the opportunity to build on our country’s comparatively high standards and compete on quality, sustainability and animal welfare. Or we can sign up to free trade agreements on terms that suit our competitors, pushing British farmers either to lower their standards to compete or drive them out of business altogether.
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A tax on red meat?
That won’t save the planet – or do much to improve our health. The problems associated with the production of red meat are far too complicated for a simplistic sin levy.
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We need a green diet that’s not half-baked
Blog for the Food Ethics Council on the merits and flaws in EAT-Lancet’s ‘planetary health diet’.
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The Wisdom of Ramen
In Japan, thought and action, philosophy and life, are more intimately connected than most other places. Philosophy is largely an attempt to articulate and develop insights into how to live and who we are that are embedded in practices more than they are rooted in theories. The documentaries Ramen Heads and Jiro Dreams of Sushi show what much of this philosophy means more eloquently than can be straightforwardly said.
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