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Image shows a sign in St James's Park warns of avian influenza as another outbreak hits the UK.

Report: To Avoid Another Pandemic, We Need to Eat Less Meat

by Jack McGovan

The UK’s biggest outbreak of bird flu highlights the government’s willingness to protect the animal agricultural industry at all costs, even while the evidence points to one solution.

Children queue for a free meal during a feeding program by outreach group World Mission Community Care, at a slum area in the Baseco compound, metro Manila

Opinion: Western Food Imperialism is Starving the Rest of the World

by Ella Thorold

The world produces more than enough food for everyone. The problem is that our food systems are rigged by the west, writes Ella Thorold.

International: Why Are India’s Farmers Staging the Biggest Protest in History?

by Simran Jeet Singh

As tensions mount between protesters and authorities in New Delhi, Simran Jeet Singh explores the legacy of exploitation and neglect that has paved the way for India's historic farmers' protests.

Downstream: Can Lab-Grown Meat Save the World? Aaron Bastani Meets Michael Selden

On this week’s Downstream, Aaron Bastani meets Mike Selden, co-founder of Finless Foods - a cellular agriculture business in California - to find out whether lab-grown meat can live up to the hype.

Opinion: Global Capitalism Has Pushed Our Food System to Breaking Point

From growing food poverty to rising temperatures, our food system threatens both people and planet. In the second piece of a series on isolation, connection and climate breakdown, Adrienne Buller argues it's time to rethink global food production.

The Burner: The Burner Episode #227: Behemoth Pulls the Peasant’s Plough?

‘Stare long enough at a bean, or a grain, or an ear of corn, and you’ll begin to see everything – the whole world – inside it.’ James Butler dives into pandemic food shocks and the deep links between capitalist farming and viral outbreaks.

GE2019: The ‘Plan for Nature’ Is Right to Be Ambitious – But Labour Can Do More for Rural Life

by Jon Moses

Ignore the Westminster commentators-turned-forestry experts, Labour's 'Plan for Nature' is a welcome development for the party. However, implementation will require Labour to keep developing its offer to rural communities where the Tories have failed, argues Jon Moses.

From Afforestation to Animals – It’s Time to Talk About Agricultural Reform

by Kay Miller and Louis Goddard

We should all welcome the level of traction proposals like the green new deal are gaining, but taking emissions targets seriously means getting real about land reform and animal politics, argue Kay Miller and Louis Goddard.

Novara Docs: Return to the Commons

On a 14-square mile patch of western France known as Notre-Dame-des-Landes, a world is being constructed, a way of living, formed through common endeavour and a knowledge of and sensitivity to the landscape and its ecosystems. It’s a messy process that was started 10 years ago when climate activists started to squat the area to […]