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The fake burger test: Could meat made of plants ever fool you?

2 May 2018

If you like meat, but don’t want a side of animal cruelty and environmental destruction, there’s something new on the menu – and it tastes surprisingly good

Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we're to blame

24 April 2018

One-eighth of the world’s 11,000 bird species are now threatened, and in most cases farming is the biggest threat thanks to our increasingly meat-rich diets

Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef

2 April 2018

Fish and seafood are normally fairly environmentally friendly, but it takes so much fuel to catch some species that their carbon footprint is as big as that of red meat

These searing hot chilli peppers are in danger thanks to snakes

15 March 2018

The donne’ sali chilli is a major feature of the cuisine of the Mariana Islands, but thanks to an invasive snake this pepper faces an uncertain future

Living on the veg: Should we all go vegan?

24 January 2018

Veganism is trending but is it just the latest food fad, or do claims that it's better for your health and that of the planet stack up? We dig into the evidence

Our lust for tastier chocolate has transformed the cocoa tree

27 December 2017

Ever since we domesticated the cocoa tree over 3000 years ago, we have been breeding them to make tastier chocolate – but in the process we have made them vulnerable