Recently my good friend, the Iraqi artist Khulood Da'mi, took me to a delightful 'oud' evening run by Common Ground and CADFA who organise exchange groups of Palestinian and British children. Apart from the children's singing and some fine music from Kefaya and Nizar …
Environmental Issues
In memoriam – Dr Harry Morrow Brown
Sadly, but not unexpectedly, Dr Harry Morrow Brown finally lost his battle to keep his heart ticking last week. He was 96. I first met Harry and Freda nearly 30 years ago at the Oxford Food Symposium. How come? Well, Freda was interested in food so they thought they would …
‘Sweetening milk with non-nutritive sweeteners without declaring them on the label will make it easier for consumers to identify its overall nutritional value’…
What?....... Well, that, if you can get your head around it, is what the US International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is asking the FDA to let them do. It is, apparently, all part of trying to combat obesity by improving …
Monsanto pulls plug on GM in Europe
How satisfactory! Monsanto are giving up on attempts to persuade Europeans to grow their GM crops. Opposition has been fierce - not, sadly, in the UK where the government, currently in the person of our Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson, …
PPD in hair dye and elsewhere
If I check the stats for this blog for the most popular posts, way up in the top five is a very short post back in October 2011 on the dangers of PPD. So, it would seem that this is a matter of considerable concern to many people, on which they cannot find much information. On …