In 1809 a preacher in Salford told his congregation to give up meat and drink for good, and made it the price of staying in
In 1953 a Sussex farmer came home from America with 24 fertilised eggs in his hand luggage. Bringing hatching eggs into the country was banned,
The first vet on record to see mad cow disease blamed the cattle feed. He was looking for the wrong poison in the right bag,
On the afternoon of Thursday 8 February 1951, Captain Harry Crookshank rose in the House of Commons and tried to describe the British meat ration
In the early 1220s a historian in Mosul called Ibn al-Athir spent years refusing to write the next chapter of his chronicle. He admits it.
The most famous plant-based athletes in history never chose a single meal. They were owned, and their owners fed them the cheapest bulk food in
Ask why the French call the English rosbifs and you get a paragraph about cooking. Ask why the guards at the Tower are called Beefeaters
Ask the internet whether medieval peasants ate meat and it serves you pottage, a heel of dark bread and, for good behaviour, the odd rasher
On 26 October 2015 the World Health Organization’s cancer agency put processed meat in the same category as tobacco smoking and asbestos, and a nation
