The epidemic of looting that has taken place across the country this week, with its attendant bevy of talking heads pontificating about the 'disenfranchised 5%', the 'fallout from our consumerist society' etc etc makes a small project I heard about a couple of weeks ago seem an …
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Opportunity beckons for freefrom restaurants
I was delighted to read an article in CatererSearch.com supporting one of my pet hobby horses – the massive opportunities, as yet almost untapped, for freefrom food manufacturers in the catering and restaurant sector. It is true that freefrom/allergen catering does present a …
Dr John Briffa – Flora – advertorials – and cholesterol
I have always been deeply suspicious of advertorials – what appear to be editorial pieces lauding a specific product that are actually paid for and written by [or for] the maker of the product. They seem to me to be very misleading – suggesting by implication that an independent …
Fresh Air Fund – helping New York’s inner city children
You may remember that a couple of months ago I posted about the Fresh Air Fund charity that arranges holidays for inner city New York children from low-income families out in the country with host families. For any US readers of this blog – I have jsut had an update from the …
Better mobile phone protection
Those who believe in the precautionary principle and therefore wish to prevent themselves from any damage that mobile phone might do to their health will already know that it is better to text that to speak, better to use a speak-a-phone than to hold the phone to your ear and …