Treading the narrow path of virtue while still earning enough to keep a roof over your head is not always that easy. Last week, the splendid new Archbishop of Cantebury found himself in the embarrassing position of vowing to put pay-day loan operators out of business only to …
Food
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, …
Numbers and perceptions – of life and allergy
I am an avid reader of The Week and particularly addicted to the snippets on page 6 which include 'Poll Watch' – this week devoted to our misconceptions. Mind you, their figures were taken from Ipsos Mori and Telepraph blogs so maybe the latter need to be taken with a little …
The GM debate rages anew – so get involved!
There were some serious ripples of green discontent back in May when all of the major supermarkets declared that it had become too difficult for them to source chickens and eggs that had guaranteeably been fed on non-GM feeds as these foods were now too hard to get – even though …
Fancy ‘Buycott’ing your least favourite foods?
John Scott just alerted me to this piece on the Natural Society site: 'A new free app called ‘Buycott’ allows you to use your Android or iPhone to analyse products and determine if you’re supporting Monsanto’s GMOs, Big Food companies who are damaging your health, or simply …