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In brief — A health food problem

With a plant-based January promising to undo the sins of another year, we could easily fall victim to the notion that all non-animal foods are good for us. Some, however, could have repercussions for the natural world that outweigh any benefit. The problem we find, with all mass shifts, is that there are simply too […]

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SOS: Save our soil

Lately, much has been made of the food produced to sustain human life on this planet, and rightly so. Because beneath every hotly debated cloven-hoof and shaft of grain is a body bigger than all the people, plants and animals put together — and it’s dying. The soil as an ecosystem The soil seems fairly […]

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In brief — Clean British beauty brands

With growing concern for what goes into our bodies, it seems only natural that an increasing number of discerning women and men are reconsidering the impact of what goes on the body. Buying based solely on what looks good is no longer enough. To be a conscious consumer means to buy based on what ‘does good’, […]

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