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Why we need to go beyond voting with our forks, and how

  • October 17, 2016
  • Siobhan Parry
  • All YFM articles, YFM Investigates

Eating is the most profound way we affect the world. Feeding 7 billion growing bellies is harder than it looks, and it has taken a toll on our land, labour, and health. In Australia, no issue illustrates these problems better than meat eating. Australi... read more

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Australian Organics

  • October 6, 2016
  • Danya Bilinsky
  • All YFM articles, YFM Investigates

Australia’s appetite for organic food is at crazy-milkshake levels. But unlike crazy milkshakes, even though organic food costs up to three times more than conventional, it continues to be one of our country’s fastest growing industries. But how much... read more

What Five Australian Dairy Farmers Want Milk Drinkers To Know

  • July 11, 2016
  • Zo Zhou
  • All YFM articles, Faces of Food

In all the mooing about milk in Australia recently, we’ve barely herd from farmers themselves. So we asked a few different dairy farmers direct for their thoughts on being #milkeddry, and the hype around raw milk (especially the “cold presse... read more

Getting Mindful about Eating Meat (after Meat Free May, Week, or Monday)

  • May 30, 2016
  • Sophie Armitage
  • All YFM articles, Beefjam, Behind The Scenes At YFM, YFM Investigates

In case you missed it, May is a Meat Free Month. August will include Meat Free Week. And of course, there are Meat Free Mondays too. Almost always, the debates about eating meat (what types, how much, health problems, environmental problems) can be ef... read more

How Food Is More Connected To Coral Bleaching Than We Thought

  • May 18, 2016
  • Alexandra Jobin
  • All YFM articles, Living YFM, YFM Investigates

Thanks to one of our favourite naturalists (cheers Sir D!), coral bleaching has had some well-deserved attention recently. That’s because there are plenty of good reasons to give a damn about the Great Barrier Reef being on the verge of being a... read more

Scratching the Surface of Pesticides in Australia

  • April 29, 2016
  • Alexandra Jobin
  • All YFM articles, YFM Investigates

With “chemical free” signs proudly popping up at market stalls, it’s hardly surprising that pesticides get a bad rap. I mean, really: does anyone actually like the idea of ingesting poison, even if it wasn’t intended for them? ItR... read more

Behind the Scenes at an Australian Abattoir

  • January 20, 2016
  • Thea Soutar
  • All YFM articles, Beefjam, Behind The Scenes At YFM

We humans like to outsource the things that give us the creeps. Funeral parlours, sewerage systems, landfills, abattoirs, these places are all part of the scaffolding for the modern Australian lifestyle but we’ve somehow collectively agreed that life is... read more

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