Livestock

Here's looking at you...

September 6, 2026

A look inside: what I can’t measure - and why I don’t consider myself clever enough for a vegan diet

Does Meat Cause Diabetes?

A steak with a twig of rosemary, surrounded by plenty of salt, which in the context of this article may just as happily be read as sugar

August 7, 2026

The ‘fact everybody knows’ - that meat causes diabetes - keeps crossing my path. So I went and read the studies, and ended up with the longest reference list of any article here.

Water Use for Beef

July 7, 2026

A gazillion litres of water per burger? Gladly - anything else would be a catastrophe.

Animal Suffering

Some cattle on pasture, just before sundown

June 15, 2026

On animal ethics, minimizing suffering, and why that doesn’t automatically mean giving up meat

Allan Savory: What Holds Up, What Doesn't

A cow on grass. In the background, more cattle lie partially hidden in tall grass.

June 5, 2026

In the first grazing article I flagged some dissent about Allan Savory. Turns out it’s not one but two objections.

Regenerative Agriculture through the lens of International Law

June 2, 2026

Why global policymakers are turning to managed grazing, and what that means for our plates.

Don't feed the animals

Sign 'Due to health risks don't feed the ducks or geese'

May 7, 2026

Why aren’t you supposed to feed the ducks in the park or the animals at the zoo - and what we can learn from it

Grains are among the most fundamental staples - most people can hardly imagine doing without them. Yet depending on whether they are eaten by humans or fed to animals, they are credited with diametrically opposite properties. Schrödinger’s food

Pasture-Raised Ruminants

Cattle herd on pasture, in front of trees. One white animal among an otherwise black herd

May 1, 2026

Cattle get a lot of blame - how the farming method can turn that picture around

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