Little Hill Podcast

Little Hill is a podcast about food, and about the systems that put it in front of you and animal rights. Some episodes are long investigations — a parasite moving through a supply chain nobody can see into, a company whose name never appears on anything you have bought from it, a regulation quietly withdrawn the summer before it was needed. Some are conversations: with the people who grow it, cook it and sell it, with the activists trying to change how it is produced, and with the people who have thought hardest about whether we should be eating animals at all. That last question runs through the whole show. We report on animal agriculture and on animal rights, on the campaigns aimed at both, and on the case for eating plants instead — the ethical argument, and what the evidence actually supports about what it does for your health. We are not neutral about how animals are farmed and we do not pretend to be. What we are is exactly as careful with a claim that supports our position as with one that undermines it. No figure goes out without a source you could check yourself. When our sources disagree, we say so on air and read both, rather than choosing the one that makes the better story. When somebody is criticised here, their response runs in full, in their own words. When we get something wrong, we correct it — on air and in writing. The result is slower than most news and more careful than most food media, and it is meant to be...