Novak Djokovic has just published his autobiography (entitled, somewhat predictably, Serve to Win) charting his rise from a injury-dogged, ache-plagued asthmatic to a level of fitness and endurance reached by few, even among the elite sporting community. No, I have not yet …
Food/Health Policy
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, …
Do clinical trials work?
I was delighted to read, last week, a lengthy article in the NY Times posing the question that has bothered me for years about the much lauded 'gold standard randomised, double blind placebo controlled trial'. When every individual is so different physiologically, genetically, …
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 …