Jamie Oliver Should Be Presenting Friday Night Farming Facts – Not Feasting...
Good grief. Just when I think I’ve heard it all, another food pundit comes up with an idea so daft that you could bottle it and sell it as vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, humanely-reared organic water....
View ArticleCattle, Cowgirl Boots And Cancer
Last week I was lucky enough to chat with the fabulous Will Evans, a Welsh cattle and hen farmer on his Rock and Roll Farming podcast. Unlike most of my media interviews, which are focus entirely on...
View ArticleHow Now, Old Cow? Do “Slaughter-Free” Dairy Farms Come at an Unsustainable Cost?
As consumers, we’re more like sheep than we’d like to admit – that is, if sheep were tempted to buy food based on “free from” marketing. Gluten-free, fat-free, lactose-free, dairy-free and GMO-free...
View ArticleLet’s Raise a Glass to the Dairy Cow
Today is Cow Appreciation Day and Elanco Animal Health have kindly asked me to write a few words for their 360º blog in praise of the magnificent foster mother of the human race. Here’s a short extract...
View ArticleHow Many Vegans Does it Take to Change a Dairy Industry? It Depends How We...
The Advertising Standards Authority in the UK have just ruled that it’s permissible for vegan campaigners to use emotive terminology to describe dairy production, on the grounds that the claims made do...
View Article50 Sheds of Grey – Mega Farms and Animal Welfare Are Not Black and White Issues
Further to yesterday’s blog post here, I was asked for my views on this article in the Telegraph by companion animal vet Pete Wedderburn. Given my propensity to use 17 words when three will do (I blame...
View ArticleHow to Argue with Vegans – A Cut-Out-and-Keep Chart (new and improved!)
I will never criticise anybody for being vegan, vegetarian, pescetarian, flexitarian or any other diet. Always put popcorn on top of tomato soup (don’t knock it till you’ve tried it…) or fancy a...
View ArticleDo Avatar characters eat cheese? James Cameron’s films may suspend disbelief,...
In our brave new world, where questioning authority and searching for truth are championed as positive attributes, it is ironic that we tend to follow predictable behaviour patterns when faced with new...
View ArticleActivists tell me that I deserved to get aggressive breast cancer at 25 –...
I like to think that we live in a society where, as a whole, we are more tolerant than we were 50 or 100 years ago. Discriminating against people because of their race or gender is unacceptable,...
View ArticleIt’s #Februdairy!
Two weeks ago, I sat in the audience for the Semex conference and heard two different presenters talking about the increasing market for plant-based foods and the myths, mistruths and misconceptions...
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