Billionaire James Dyson hoovering up land to avoid inheritance tax isn’t working out quite as he planned
Inventor of the bagless vacuum-cleaner James Dyson is the latest billionaire to kick up a fuss about chancellor Rachel Reeves' ...
Tag: farming
After Tory dither and delay, parliament FINALLY passes Animal Welfare Bill to protect farmed animals
On Tuesday 14 May, the UK House of Lords passed a landmark new bill on animal welfare. Of course, it's ...
Mining, big agribusiness, and fossil fuel sectors linked to over 600 attacks against 20,000 human rights defenders in 2023
Mining, big agribusiness, and the fossil fuel sectors have unleashed an astronomical spate of attacks on human rights defenders (HRDs) ...
Globalised capitalism’s eating habits are responsible for one third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions
According to a new report from the World Bank, changing how we farm could cut global emissions by almost one ...
European Parliament ploughs ahead with environmentally destructive agricultural reforms
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have rolled over for big agribusiness, sabotaging the EU's agricultural reform via the Common ...
Government accused of now breaking environmental law TWO YEARS in a row
The UK government is alleged to have bulldozed through environmental law to greenlight the use of a bee-killing pesticide. It’s ...
Rural women are bearing the socioeconomic brunt of the patriarchy-led climate crisis
On Tuesday 5 March, the United Nations' (UN) food and farming agency published a report highlighting the gendered impacts of ...
Government adds expansive third prong to the badger cull, while claiming a ‘phase out’
The Conservative government has quietly added numerous extensions to existing badger cull areas since 2017. These extensions have snowballed since ...
MPs to debate bee-killing pesticides as government greenlights their use yet again
MPs will debate the use of bee-killing pesticides in agriculture on 1 February. The debate follows the government authorising the ...
Government rejects call to ban wildlife-killing snares in England, against public’s wishes
Parliamentarians debated whether to ban wildlife-killing snares on 9 January. As MPs pointed out during the session, there's widespread approval ...
Tory government stands accused of launching a full-scale assault on nature
Nature-focused organisations have accused the Conservative government of launching "an attack on nature". Their criticism centres around the government's plans ...
African farmers to UK: stop funding ‘climate-stupid’ agriculture on our continent
Millions of African people have demanded that the UK and others cease funding an agricultural initiative on the continent. They ...
Young farmers hope ecological farm will ‘reconnect people back to the land’
The group have spent their life savings on the farm near Bath which they hope will feed 400 families.
The COP26 pledges on agriculture are missing vital ingredients
The UK announced that it had secured the support of 45 governments "in new pledges to protect nature" at COP26 ...
There’s less than 24 hours to save the latest victim of the government’s flawed TB testing regime
The Conservative government's flawed TB testing regime has already cost over 140,000 badgers their lives. In less than 24 hours, ...
Badger cull is ‘crass hooliganism’ that’s set to continue indefinitely, experts say
The UK is continuing its massacre of badgers for at least the next five years. The optics of the mass ...
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