Why vegetarians would eat veal

Reblogged from saffronbunny: Turn on the telly and you’re likely to catch a bearded man foraging on Channel 4 or a BBC fledgling MasterChef shouting about seasonal and local; look at your bookshelf and you’ve probably got at least one over-priced TV-endorsed cookbook which you’ve barely opened. Yet despite our recent ‘food renaissance’, some of [...]

The EDL march through Leicester

Hazel Paterson on yesterday’s EDL march through Leicester.

Pextenement Cheese Company – a Calder Valley food find and carbon friendly cows too

On the morning of my visit to Pextenement Farm I came, by chance, upon an article in the US Farmers Weekly headed ‘Cheese producers urged to focus on breed for carbon reduction’. Not all cows, it seems, are the same. The lighter weight Jersey versus the Holstein uses significantly less land and water resulting in [...]

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