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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India

Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.

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Sharing breastmilk with parents

Alev Scott donated her frozen breastmilk to a hospital milk bank, but she was curious about other routes. Here she explores commercial operations and informal private arrangements.

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The trouble with too many things

Hoarding is a slippery subject – difficult to define or diagnose. As she tries to explain the intensity of her grandma’s collecting, Georgie Evans finds the words and tools at her disposal aren’t all that helpful.

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  • Permit for the supply of milk at two pence per pint / Ministry of Food.
  • Permit for the supply of milk at two pence per pint / Ministry of Food.
  • To promote the best use of food : demonstrations of electric cooking will be given in conjunction with the National Campaign Of The Ministry Of Food at the Corporation Electric Showrooms, Whitechapel... / Liverpool Corporation Electric Supply Department.
  • To promote the best use of food : demonstrations of electric cooking will be given in conjunction with the National Campaign Of The Ministry Of Food at the Corporation Electric Showrooms, Whitechapel... / Liverpool Corporation Electric Supply Department.
  • To promote the best use of food : demonstrations of electric cooking will be given in conjunction with the National Campaign Of The Ministry Of Food at the Corporation Electric Showrooms, Whitechapel... / Liverpool Corporation Electric Supply Department.
  • To promote the best use of food : demonstrations of electric cooking will be given in conjunction with the National Campaign Of The Ministry Of Food at the Corporation Electric Showrooms, Whitechapel... / Liverpool Corporation Electric Supply Department.
  • Richland pure foods / Brewhurst Health Food Supplies.
  • Richland pure foods / Brewhurst Health Food Supplies.
  • Richland pure foods / Brewhurst Health Food Supplies.
  • Richland pure foods / Brewhurst Health Food Supplies.
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