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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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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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What the wind can bring

In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.

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Meredith Wadman’s prescription for writing

The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘The Vaccine Race’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.

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  • Chinese woodcut, illustrating food poisoning
  • A fly; representing the danger of food poisoning through flies. Colour lithograph, 196-.
  • Prevention of food poisoning by cooling hot food quickly, shown by a roast joint on a dish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1962.
  • Prevention of food poisoning by covering hand infections with a plaster, avoiding touching food, and keeping hands clean. Colour lithograph, ca. 1963.
  • Prevention of food poisoning by covering hand infections with a plaster, avoiding touching food, and keeping hands clean. Colour lithograph, ca. 1963 (?).
  • Prevention of food poisoning by cooling hot meat and keeping cold meat covered. Colour lithograph, ca. 1965.
  • A fly on a grid, representing the danger of food poisoning through flies. Colour lithograph, ca. 1964.
  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : a joint campaign by government and other concerned organisations / prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the agriculture departments, with the Department of the Environment and the Nature Conservancy Council, as part of the Campaign against the illegal poisoning of wildlife.
  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : a joint campaign by government and other concerned organisations / prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the agriculture departments, with the Department of the Environment and the Nature Conservancy Council, as part of the Campaign against the illegal poisoning of wildlife.
  • A full dustbin with the lid lifted off; representing the danger of food poisoning through flies and bins. Colour lithograph, ca. 1964.
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