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Articles tagged with "Food"

07.05.25

Environment

Coming home to roost: residents rise up against UK chicken megafarms

Booming poultry industry faces a reckoning as government pressed to finance more sustainable methods

13.03.25

Environment

How decades of factory farming paved the way for today’s superbugs crisis

A new film lays bare the existential threat driven by antibiotic overuse – and comes after years of warnings

31.01.25

Environment

Diseased chicken entered UK after post-Brexit delays to border checks

British consumers were exposed to drug-resistant salmonella because new protocols took years to come into force

19.12.24

Trapped in work

‘I’m horrified’: Chrissie Hynde turns back on ‘ethical’ farm after animal welfare allegations

Ahimsa Dairy Foundation underpaid some workers and left animals to suffer through fatal injury

12.12.24

Environment

Slash and carry: shippers ‘enabling’ beef-driven forest destruction

Global shipping giants transported half a million tonnes of meat from abattoirs linked to razed forest

15.11.24

Trapped in work

Seasonal workers find no hope in employment tribunals

Exploited farmworkers face huge barriers to justice – including rules effectively preventing oral evidence

04.10.24

Environment

G4S guards accused of brutal attack at Del Monte’s Kenyan pineapple farm

Former guards on Kenyan mega-farm were accused of killings. Now staff from new global contractor are accused of unprovoked violence

27.09.24

Global Health

UN pledges to cut superbug deaths by 2030

Signatories have agreed to secure clean water in medical facilities and cut antibiotic pollution in the environment

27.09.24

Environment

Cargill cows contaminated with vital antibiotics

Cattle slaughtered at Cargill meat-packing plants tested positive for traces of some of the most important drugs for human health

24.08.24

Trapped in work

‘We sacrificed everything we had’: seasonal workers left without jobs after Home Office decision

Workers were promised UK jobs before recruiter had licence revoked

09.08.24

Global Superbugs

What is antimicrobial resistance – and why is it a global health threat?

Drug-resistant infections are a growing threat worldwide. Here’s the science behind it – and how we can tackle the issue

The Del Monte logo on a phone

09.07.24

Environment

Iceland backtracks on Del Monte pineapples linked to violence

The supermarket is the last in the UK to stock products from a farm in Kenya where guards are accused of beating and killing suspected thieves

08.07.24

Environment

Legal pressures mount for Cargill over River Wye pollution

The case will argue the meat giant knew of the potential environmental consequences of industrial-scale chicken farming

03.07.24

Environment

‘Your reports stopped the deaths’: a year reporting on Del Monte

Twelve months on, the violence has not abated but local communities say they can finally see signs of change

A photograph of a shelf of tinned pineapple products from Del Monte at Morrisons

27.06.24

Environment

Morrisons drop pineapple supplier over violence at Del Monte farm

Morrisons said it would not source tinned pineapples from Kenya until Del Monte fully implemented its human rights improvement plan

21.06.24

Environment

Growth of polluting ‘megafarms’ set to continue under next government

Campaigners raise the alarm at lack of will among major parties to curb intensive farming

Cans of Del Monte pineapples on sale in Iceland in June 2024

19.06.24

Environment

Morrisons and Iceland still stocking Del Monte pineapple from farm linked to killings

Violence has continued on the brand’s Kenyan farm in the year since TBIJ uncovered numerous alleged killings

19.06.24

Environment

The Del Monte deaths: one year on, what’s changed?

There have been no killings at the brand’s massive pineapple farm in six months, but violence still plagues the local community

29.05.24

Trapped in work

Government expanded visa scheme weeks after UN raised alarm over people trafficking

Special rapporteurs raised alarm to David Cameron before government’s decision to extend visa scheme

29.04.24

Environment

Fields of filth: factory farms committing thousands of environmental breaches

The more than 3,000 violations affected water, air and land

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