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Can pork be regenerative? When we think of regenerative farming systems, the focus is all too often on the grazing animals and their ability to restore soil health. But as a business we want all of our farmer partners to...
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Sometimes all we need is a shift of perspective. One of the many problems of intensive farming is manure or dung management. In nature and in more natural farming systems animals are more spread out than intensive farming and they...
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Nitrates and nitrites in processed meats Nitrates and nitrites are used in the production of processed meats like bacon, salami, and ham. However, they are also found naturally in many plant foods, often in very high amounts. For example, pound...
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This will not be an easy article to condense and indeed could be a book in its own right but it is prompted by an article this week in The Guardian entitled Nitrites in bacon: MPs and scientists call for...
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