| EDITORIALS |
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| Power Where It's Needed |
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| Bring Me My Bow |
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| Another World Is Possible |
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| NEWS IN BRIEF |
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| MoD Brings Back Enclosure • Fishing in Murky Waters • Hitting the Brakes on Ex /Terminator Gene Drives • Raising the Bog Standards • Green Welly Brigade Warned Off in Wales • Who’s Still backing Fracking? • Fracking Threatens Aboriginal Land Rights • Myanmar: ‘Too Many Consultants’ • Island-Grabbing in Indonesia |
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| 1. LIVESTOCK ON TRIAL – FOUR CHARGES. |
| Section Editor SIMON FAIRLIE |
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| Opening Statements. |
| A Letter to the Editors. |
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| Why Go Vegan? |
| William Gildea of the Vegan Society makes the case. |
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| CHARGE I: KEEPING LIVESTOCK IS CRUEL. |
| The Swineherd’s Knife and the Tiger’s Claw. |
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| Where the Wild Things Went. |
| Gill Barron looks into the origins of domestication. |
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| CHARGE II: LIVESTOCK ARE INEFFICIENT FOOD PROVIDERS. |
| Eating the Platter Clean. |
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| CHARGE III: LIVESTOCK CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING. |
| A Convenient Untruth: How Livestock Have Been Slandered by Sloppy Science. |
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| Why a Herd of Cows is Like a Closed Power Station. |
| Michelle Cain explains. |
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| Waning Cats and Dogs. |
| Gill Barron queries the eco-footprint of keeping pets. |
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| An Encore for the Horse. |
| Perhaps work is more fun than idleness, suggests Gill Barron. |
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| CHARGE IV: LIVESTOCK CAUSE POLLUTION. |
| Fixing the Whole. Do “leaks” matter? |
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| 2. ALTERNATIVE USES OF LAND. |
| Section Editor SIMON FAIRLIE |
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| ALTERNATIVE I: LAND TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE. |
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| Zero Carbon Britain. |
| Peter Harper explains in an interview how it could happen. |
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| Grass for Gas or Grass for Cows? |
| Can biomethane and dairy co-exist? |
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| Pulling Up the Grass Roots. |
| What if a dairy smallholding turned vegan? |
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| Alternative Food: Resigning from Nature. |
| Dietary fearmongering leads to strange scenarios. |
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| When No-One Eats Anyone Else |
| Gill Barron tiptoes into a post-vegan vision of paradise. |
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| ALTERNATIVE II: REWILDING. |
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| Wild in the Weald. |
| What’s happening on the Knepp Estate in Sussex? |
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| Part of the Mosaic. |
| Marion Reed and Phil Wilson on lowland rewilding. |
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| Size Matters. |
| Rewilding Britain’s new Welsh project is on a grand scale. |
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| The Jungle Underfoot. |
| Micro-critters matter as much as megafauna, argues Gill Barron. |
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| Beavers Return to Our Waters. |
| Hugh Warwick reviews Eager by Ben Goldfarb. |
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| The Wildness Delusion. |
| Gavin Saunders asks where people fit into the rewilding proposal. |
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| LAND OWNERSHIP |
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| Invisible Land Comes Into View. |
| Tom Kenny on land reform developments. |
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| What Does LVT Bring to the Party? |
| Gavin Kerr on where Britain’s politicians stand on Land Value Tax. |
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| Something to Grouse About. |
| Are the Moors in the wrong hands, asks Guy Shrubsole. |
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| Holes in the Map. |
| Anna Powell-Smith knows how to track down unregistered land. |
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| Of Cages and Hedges. |
| Chris Smaje asks what Chinese urbanisation has meant for peasants |
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| The Biggest Privatisation? |
| Anna Powell-Smith reviews The New Enclosure by Brett Christophers. |
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| READERS WRITE. |
| Feedback on Issue 23: HS2, The Woodland Trust and Street Trees. |
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| CHAPTER 7 |
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| A Good Year for The Ecological Land Co-operative |
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| One Planet Successes • Sweat Equity • Beyond Yurts • Class Q Fallback • Where Have All the Appeals Gone? |
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