A Gloucestershire restaurant is rethinking relationships with customers, suppliers and the entire food economy to fuel an ambitious “pay as you can” model that feeds…
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From beehive to kitchen table: UK beekeepers call for new law to trace honey’s origin
Britain’s beekeepers are backing proposed new rules to combat fraud in the supply chain, ensuring a jar of honey can be traced on its journey…
View More From beehive to kitchen table: UK beekeepers call for new law to trace honey’s origin‘A frenzy of bodies in the chamber of death’: Italian fishers fight to preserve an ancient tradition
On an overcast morning, several miles off Sardinia’s east coast, four men jump into a net where 49 giant Atlantic bluefin tuna are fighting for…
View More ‘A frenzy of bodies in the chamber of death’: Italian fishers fight to preserve an ancient tradition‘They’re drowning us in regulations’: how Europe’s furious farmers took on Brussels and won
On the outskirts of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, a green, red and blue stream of New Holland, John Deere, Massey Ferguson, Fendt and…
View More ‘They’re drowning us in regulations’: how Europe’s furious farmers took on Brussels and won‘It’s a bucket-list fish’: bluefin tuna are back in British seas – and so are the fishing boats
Built like a torpedo, weighing more than a male polar bear when fully grown and fetching prices in Japan of more than £2m for a…
View More ‘It’s a bucket-list fish’: bluefin tuna are back in British seas – and so are the fishing boatsHow rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendants
When enslaved Africans escaped the Surinamese plantations overseen by Dutch colonists from the 17th to the 19th century, several women ingeniously hid rice grains in…
View More How rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendantsFarmbots, flavour pills and zero-gravity beer: inside the mission to grow food in space
Three robots are growing vegetables on the roof of the University of Melbourne’s student pavilion. As I watch, a mechanical arm, hovering above the crop…
View More Farmbots, flavour pills and zero-gravity beer: inside the mission to grow food in spaceReinventing the eel: first lab-grown eel meat revealed
The first lab-grown freshwater eel meat has been produced, potentially solving a diner’s dilemma. Rampant overfishing has caused eel populations to plummet and prices to…
View More Reinventing the eel: first lab-grown eel meat revealedRare mushroom sighting near Bristol spawns native fungi cloning project
Henry Jephson was wandering around the countryside near Bristol during a Covid lockdown when his eye was caught by the ghostly appearance of a lion’s…
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The government needs to urgently end polluting tax breaks for the UK fishing fleet that threaten to “empty the ocean of fish”, say conservationists, after…
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