https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:43:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-The-Mint-Coin-32x32.jpg https://www.themintmagazine.com 32 32 https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-the-die-out-of-diet/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-the-die-out-of-diet/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:41:26 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136653

Henry Leveson-Gower and Dil Green map potential paths to escape the tyranny of Big Food. The modern food system delivers cheap calories at scale, but at the cost of health, … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-the-die-out-of-diet/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/give-and-take-2/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/give-and-take-2/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:32 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136493

What happens when the same people who once marched in protest suddenly find themselves inside Town Hall? Tanya Zerbian, Soledad Cuevas, Ana Moragues-Faus and Daniel López-García tell the tale of … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/give-and-take-2/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-breadbasket-on-borrowed-time/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-breadbasket-on-borrowed-time/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:32 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136499

Julien Étienne tells the story of the Fens—an engineered landscape that feeds the UK, and whose people are facing critical threats from climate change. The threat of climate change to … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-breadbasket-on-borrowed-time/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/meat-whats-the-beef-and-who-pays/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/meat-whats-the-beef-and-who-pays/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:31 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136386

Stephanie Walton herds the arguments around how stranded assets might be handled were the world to rein in its rampant carnivorousness to the point where the planet isn’t slaughtered. Over … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/meat-whats-the-beef-and-who-pays/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/when-finance-eats-the-world/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/when-finance-eats-the-world/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:31 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136505

In a year when billionaires added trillions to their fortunes, governments slashed health and education budgets to pay creditors, just as climate-fuelled disasters drove hunger and displacement to new highs. … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/when-finance-eats-the-world/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/stop-blaming-the-food-system/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/stop-blaming-the-food-system/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:30 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136411

Donatella Gasparro suggests the real culprit is capitalism, and we need a post-growth alternative. After more than ten years of involvement in agri-food matters from a bizarrely wide variety of … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/stop-blaming-the-food-system/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-wealthy/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-wealthy/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:29 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136424

Stewart Lansley argues that too much of the UK’s abundant wealth is the wrong kind. As the dust settles on Labour’s budget, it is worth recalling that Keir Starmer went … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-wealthy/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-growing-population/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-growing-population/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:29 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136434

Planting fields with a variety of strains of each plant makes for a resilient crop in the face of global warming. But global markets create other priorities? Nick Easen writes. … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-growing-population/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/episodes-in-a-cereal/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/episodes-in-a-cereal/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:27 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136439

Jack Thompson tells the hidden history of pollution, profiteering and protest behind Britain’s favourite breakfast cereal. Weetabix, the compressed wheat biscuit usually served drowned in milk, is a cereal that … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/episodes-in-a-cereal/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/time-to-go-clubbing/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/time-to-go-clubbing/#respond Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:00:54 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133119

The Mint editor, Henry Leveson-Gower, describes how joining the club could raise the tempo of environmental regeneration. Earlier this year, a group of farmers who had formed under the banner … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/time-to-go-clubbing/feed/ 0