I realise that I am coming rather late to the most recent prescription charge furore – set off by the article in the BMJ's Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin suggesting that providing gluten-free food for coeliacs on prescription is bureaucratic, inefficient and outdated – see the …
Food/Health Policy
Save Farm Terrace Allotments….
I do not have an allotment. I sort of wish that I did but I do not think that I have the time, the knowledge or the staying power to make a go of it. Well, that's my excuse anyhow... But I do lots of vicarious allotment gardening – mainly thanks to my good friend Sarah …
Horses – labels – and freefrom…
A report on the radio last night suggested that the horse in your lasagne could have gone through around 12 'virtual' hands as it was traded from Romania (where there is a glut of horsemeat as horse-drawn carts have been banned from the highways) to Italy, to France, to Poland to …
How social media is changing the corporate response
Baby Milk Action is a small, but extremely effective campaigning group which, for the last 20 years, has been hounding Nestlé and other baby formula manufacturers over their 'aggressive marketing' of formula milk, especially in third world countries. They are a very active member …
Are you addicted to your mobile phone?
'Materialism and impulsiveness drive mobile phone addiction.... they are used as part of the conspicuous consumption ritual and also act as a pacifiers for the impulsive tendencies of the user – impulsiveness playing an important role in both behavioural and substance …