Earliest East Enders feasted on goat, beef, lamb and dairy products 5,600 years ago

Neolithic ‘dirty dishes’ dug up in Shoreditch were used by London’s earliest East Enders who feasted on goat, beef, lamb and dairy products 5,600 years ago. Researchers used a groundbreaking new carbon dating technique to analyse traces of foods from pottery dug up on Shoreditch High Street, in the east of London. Scientists say that the Neolithic … Read more

British beef returns to American supermarkets and restaurants for the first time in 24 years

British beef returns to American supermarkets and restaurants for the first time in 24 years as officials lift ban imposed in mad cow disease crisis British farmers can export their beef to America after US lifts 1996 UK beef ban Decision to drop the ban followed three-week visit to British farms and abattoirs British firms firms … Read more

Mail on Sunday reviews new breed of vegan burgers, created in a lab to taste like real beef

Few things in life are as simple – or as pleasurable to eat – as a burger. That first bite, the rich, meaty and slightly charred flavours, mixed with smooth, salty cheese, the sharpness of onion and the tang of veg and sauce. If this sounds vaguely obsessive, it’s because I’ve not eaten one since … Read more

Want to beef up your returns? It pays to invest like a woman! 

Today is International Women’s Day, a day where the achievements of women around the world are celebrated. It is also an occasion to look into why women don’t invest as much as men.  Almost a third more men hold investment-based Isas than women, while women in their 60s have pension pots that are on average … Read more

Students at top university LSE vote to ban BEEF from its campus in bid to tackle climate change 

Students at the London School of Economics have voted to ban all beef products from the Holborn campus.  The vote was proposed by LSE’s Peta representative Phoebe Woodruff, who now wants all meat banned from the university.   The college, which is the fourth-ranked university in Britain, has almost 12,000 students, however, the proposal to ban … Read more