‘Build Back Better’ must exclude biogas and deal with food waste
13th Oct 20
Tackling food waste not only addresses SDG12, it can help us achieve Climate Action too.
Updates
Climate campaigners turn their focus from fossil fuels to meat
21st Sep 20
It's time to divest from Big Livestock.
Hungry for human connection
15th Sep 20
It is essential that we hold-on to the community spirit that sparked at the beginning of lockdown
There is no sustainable future for Big Meat and Big Dairy. It’s time to divest and defund.
8th Sep 20
There is no version of climate and ecological justice that involves factory farming.
Bad Energy? The perverse promotion of energy from food
7th Sep 20
Biogas has been presented as a silver bullet for the climate crisis – but it is often a sticking plaster holding up more fundamental change.
As workers sicken with Covid-19, US meat giants clock up record dividends
20th Aug 20
Who profits from the US meat processing sectors bumper pay-outs?
A Foodrise reading list
14th Aug 20
We have compiled some of our favourite blogs written by Foodrise staff
Working Through the Hungry Gap
13th Aug 20
During my internship, I have been impressed with the lengths that Sutton Community Farm go to combat food waste in their environment.
Hundreds of food boxes delivered to people struggling to feed their families
10th Aug 20
The Liverpool Echo reports on the work of Foodrise's Alchemic Kitchen team in Knowsley.
Cooking in the time of Coronavirus
6th Aug 20
At Foodrise, we have been reflecting on how our cooking habits have changed during this time.
Too big a story to keep to ourselves
4th Aug 20
We’re sharing the world’s largest dataset of who funds factory farming.
Foodrise responds to the National Food Strategy – Part 1
30th Jul 20
Foodrise welcomes part one of the National Food Strategy report, by Henry Dimbleby, published yesterday.
The extent of investor myopia on the livestock sector is simply startling
27th Jul 20
Industrial livestock is killing the planet, argues Carina Millstone. It’s time for investors to pull the financial plug.
The Brazilian butcher, the big banks and the deforestation
27th Jul 20
New evidence exposes links between Brazilian meat company JBS and ongoing deforestation in the Amazon.
Less is better – responding to ‘Meat in a Net Zero World’
23rd Jul 20
There's a meaty omission from an industry commitment to reduce meat waste.
Reflections from working on Sutton Community Farm
14th Jul 20
Being totally immersed in food is something I really enjoy about being on the farm.
The meat industry makes a lot of money for financiers – never mind that it’s killing us and the planet
10th Jul 20
We’re reaching Peak Livestock just as we are Peak Oil – a reality that will cost investors dear if they prove slow to act.
Banks and pension funds among investors bankrolling meat and dairy
10th Jul 20
£380bn in backing comes despite calls by scientists for large reductions in meat consumption to help avoid climate crisis.
Butchering the planet
8th Jul 20
Meat and dairy are a climate issue. But from the scale of investments and lending to Big Livestock, you wouldn't know it.
Experimenting with spent grain
3rd Jul 20
Spent grain makes up around 80% of the waste from commercial breweries in the UK.
Development Banks have no place in factory farming
2nd Jul 20
Development finance institutions should neither materially, nor symbolically support environmental degradation.
Want to eat a healthy and sustainable fish diet? Drop the farmed salmon
25th Jun 20
We set out to find out whether eating farmed salmon fed on wild fish was a good way to get micronutrients in our diets.
Cut ‘wasteful’ Scottish farmed salmon and eat a more diverse range of fish for a sustainable seafood diet
25th Jun 20
Farmed salmon industry challenged to overhaul feed practices to protect wild fish
