Cow's milk intolerants will no doubt already be aware of Laverstoke Park thanks to their tasty buffalo milk products (see our article here ); Formula 1 enthusiasts will be aware of Laverstoke Park as the organic farm now run by Jody Scheckter, 1979 World Drivers' Champion; beer …
Politics
The horrors of CFLs and the demise of the incandescent bulb
I am always banging on about how unpleasant CFLs are for electro-sensitives because of the electromagnetic fields that their flickering create, but that is nothing compared to the damage that their mercury content can do if they get broken. If you really want to …
Smart meters – wider concerns
Smart meters were heralded by energy suppliers and some environmentalists as a major tool by which we could control our energy consumption and thereby help to reduce greenhouse gases. Each house could monitor its energy consumption room by room, billing would be easier and more …
Raw milk, the hygiene hypothesis – and medical spin
In one of his recent weekly updates of research links posted on our news and research forums, I found John Scott spluttering with indignation about the ingenious way in which the Vermont Public News had managed to turn a report that children who live on a farm and drink raw milk …
Evidence-Based Medicine: the Orthomolecular view
This article originated with the excellent Orthomolecular News Service (subscribe here) and has been hanging around in my in-box for months as I thought it was so well worth reading but could not really find a home for it on the FoodsMatter sites. So, why not …