Food

Coronavirus infections soaring in workplaces

Workers are being forced to keep quiet about dangerous conditions, writes Charlie Kimber

Meting out misery - coronavirus outbreaks and the meat industry

As coronavirus spreads through slaughterhouses in the US and Europe, Simon Basketter looks at how the drive for profit is to blame

People forced to food banks as they are ‘swept into destitution’

Huge numbers of people are being driven to food banks as the coronavirus crisis deepens

A system of waste and rot

More than 250 million people face food uncertainty by the end of this year, while producers are destroying food on an extraordinary scale

Food poverty is hitting millions during lockdown

Millions of people in Britain are going hungry during the coronavirus crisis, according to new research.

LETTERS - George Monbiot’s lab food plan gives power to bosses

What if, instead of producing our food from animals and plants, we could grow it all in a lab?

Capitalism and climate—the system’s recipe for disaster

15 December 2019
Climate change is creating extreme weather events that put food production at risk. To deal with it we have to challenge and transform a food system that is run for profit, writes Sarah Bates

A third of Zimbabweans face a food crisis due to climate change and neoliberalism

07 August 2019
More than five million people in Zimbabwe face hunger or starvation, according to the United Nations (UN).

Unofficial action over pay at North Yorkshire food factory

16 July 2019
Hundreds of workers at Karro Foods in Maltonstruck unofficially for two days

Can eating less meat stop environmental chaos?

09 April 2019
The meat industry is destructive but changing our diets won’t be enough to save the planet, says Martin Empson

Meadow Foods strikers say, ‘We want more than crumbs’

15 January 2019
Workers at Meadow Foods are fighting over pay.

Plugging a brewing revolt

13 January 2019
100 years ago the sale of alcohol was banned in the US. It’s a story of profit-thirsty booze barons, ruling class paranoia and fermenting anger among workers, writes Alistair Farrow

Big food business sells veganism to mask its crimes

12 January 2019
From October, when Christmas apparently begins, capitalists spend a fortune creating a bubble of unreality—worries can wait, cheese and Baileys have no calories.