I don’t watch nature and wildlife programmes. I must be one of the few people in the country who didn’t watch a single episode of the Blue Planet series and I didn’t regret it for… Do you want farming and food in the UK to be beyond GM, beyond pesticides, beyond the intensive and the industrial? Would you like it to be healthy, fair, ecological and truly sustainable (in the… As I’m now seriously old – about as old as some of my friends from school – I have just been reflecting on things from the 60s and 70s – that is 1960s and 1970s… According to the Sunday Times a Treasury committee has found that farming is responsible for £700 million per year of net external costs to society and taxpayers. The Natural Capital Committee (NCC) – made up…The Appeasers: David Attenborough and the BBC
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Tagged Attenborough, BBC, climate change, Monbiot
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Posted in Agriculture, Farming, Food Quality and Health, Genetic Engineering, Health, Politics
Tagged Brexit, GMOs, health, Organic farming
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Tagged Conisbrough, Seventies, Sixties, Summer of Love, Thatcher, Working Class
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Tagged Dieter Helm, external costs, natural capital, subsidies, TrueCostsofFood
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