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Food

May 2024

  • Basking shark

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘I’m happy we’re not killing them any more’: Ireland’s last basking shark hunter on the return of the giants

    For 30 years, Brian McNeill hunted the world’s second-biggest fish from small boats off the wild west coast of Ireland. Now numbers of the sharks have made a recovery so rapid it has astounded scientists
  • The Kangei Maru’s range is fuelling speculation that Japan may be prepared to return to whaling in the Southern Ocean.

    The vast new whaling ‘mother ship’ that Japan hopes will revive a shrinking industry

    A new $47m vessel is preparing for its maiden voyage in coastal waters, but there are fears the Kangei Maru could one day mean a return to hunting in the Southern Ocean
  • Cattle in a saleyard at Silverdale, Queensland, Australia

    The rural network
    Australian red meat industry has recorded 78% reduction in emissions since 2005, industry report found

    Drop is a result of reduced land clearing and greater vegetation regrowth, but experts say land clearing in Queensland may be significantly underreported

April 2024

  • Tom Bradshaw smiling over farm gate

    Observer business profile
    ‘It’s pretty gloomy out there’: new NFU chief Tom Bradshaw fights to give food producers a better deal

  • a combine harvester works in a flooded field

    ‘Washout winter’ spells price rises for UK shoppers with key crops down by a fifth

  • Tim Dowling’s trout lasagne

    ‘The trout lasagne is very good!’ How I recreated six classic beef dishes – with oily fish

  • Navagio beach in Zakynthos, Greece

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom trawling in marine parks

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Conservationists condemn France’s protest over UK’s bottom-trawling ban

  • ‘A system perverted by corporate money’: inside documentary sequel Food, Inc 2

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Crabs, kelp and mussels: Argentina’s waters teem with life – could a fish farm ban do the same for Chile?

  • Our unequal earth
    ‘Political efforts’: the Republican states trying to ban lab-grown meat

  • US meat lobby delighted at ‘positive’ prospects for industry after Cop28

  • EU pumps four times more money into farming animals than growing plants

March 2024

  • A meat stand.

    The alternatives
    ‘People mustn’t feel meat is being taken away’: German hospitals serve planetary health diet

  • FILE - This March 25, 2015, file photo shows the Kraft logo in Northfield, Ill. The Biden administration announced $6 billion in funding Monday, March 25, 2024, for projects that will slash emissions from the industrial sector — the largest-ever U.S. investment to decarbonize domestic industry to fight climate change. Kraft Heinz will install heat pumps, electric heaters and electric boilers to decarbonize food production at numerous facilities. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

    US to spend $6bn to reduce carbon footprint of steel, ice-cream and mac and cheese

  • a bat flies toward a plant

    Our unequal earth
    Bats are in trouble. That’s not good for anyone who likes mezcal, rice or avocado

  • Two people tearing a loaf of bread apart

    Britain’s bitter bread battle: what a £5 sourdough loaf tells us about health, wealth and class

  • ‘Bewildering’ to omit meat-eating reduction from UN climate plan

  • Banks driving increase in global meat and dairy production, report finds

  • How do you get enough protein in a climate-friendly way?

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