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The unexpected future of sustainable eating

The unexpected future of sustainable eating

Perspective Media
March 02, 2025

THIS WEEK’S DEEP DIVE
Interview with George Monbiot on the future of food
BY GAVIN ESLER

Gavin Esler interviews George Monbiot about his radical vision for sustainable eating. Monbiot advocates for precision fermentation technology that creates convincing meat alternatives from microbes, potentially reducing land use by up to 138,000 times compared to beef production while allowing vast areas to be rewilded.

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“There are only two things you need to do to prevent climate breakdown. One is leaving fossil fuels in the ground. The other is to stop farming animals”

GEORGE MONBIOT

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Let them eat turnip

Tim Ecott examines how modern farming practices and food production are devastating Britain's biodiversity. Through alarming statistics about declining bird populations and polluted waterways, he argues that our disconnection from nature and obsession with food security has created a false dichotomy between environmental protection and agriculture.

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A quarter of Britain's 250 bird species are now on the conservation Red List. The damaging causal effects of making the land more productive for food are legion

Comment

The rewilding Republican

Wade Graham explores how environmental conservation was once firmly rooted in conservative values before becoming a politically divisive issue. Through the story of Earth First! founder Dave Foreman - surprisingly, a self-described "gun-owning, card-carrying Republican" - he traces how American conservatives abandoned their conservation legacy following the Reagan revolution..

www.perspectivemedia.com/the-rewilding-republican

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“What could be less conservative than squandering the long-term capital that must sustain future generations for the short-term profits of a few?”

DAVE FOREMAN

Culture

Grow your greens

Lydia Brownlow shares her journey into kitchen gardening while tracing the rich history of home-grown produce in Britain. From Roman times through Tudor medicinal herbs and Victorian innovations to wartime necessity, she weaves personal experience with historical context to celebrate the enduring appeal of growing your own food.

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My family was lucky enough to have plenty of space for growing fruit and vegetables and we children soon learnt of the delights and occasional horrors of seasonal gluts

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