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Rat hairs, hormones and chlorine – why food standards matter in trade deals

09/09/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Bludgeoned by Brexit as we currently are, I thought you might be interested in this interview with Dr Charlie Clutterbuck (Bittersweet Brexit) on Geoff Tansey's blog. 'A trade deal around food with the USA', he says,'is not just about chlorinated chicken, hormone drenched …

Category: Big Business, Environmental Issues, Food, Food/Health Policy, PoliticsTag: 400 deaths a year in America from Salmonella, BitterSweet Brexit, Chlorinated chicken, Dr Charlie Clutterbuck, Food Defect Action Levels, Geoff Tansey, Insect parts in frozen fruit, Rat Hairs in peanut butter, trade deals with the USA

Rebelling with Extinction Rebellion

20/07/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

Although they have not had quite the coverage that they had for the mega 'sit-ins' that they staged back in April,  Extinction Rebellion's July Uprisings in London, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds and Glasgow have garnered both headlines and strong reactions. Having 'processed' …

Category: Big Business, Environmental Issues, PoliticsTag: 2003 Iraq anti war march, civil disobedience, disruption, Extinction Rebellion, Extinction Rebellion boats, Extinction Rebellion camp at Waterloo Millennium Park, Extinction Rebellion Uprisings, getting arrested with Extinction Rebellion, Polly Higgins, Roger Hallam, Roger Hallam and King's College

Climate change awakening

22/04/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

How many others had, like me, their climate change complacency ripped way by the the BBC's Climate change – The Facts last week? In fact, my 'awakening' had started a week before with the FT magazine's article, The Rise of Extinction Rebellion. But the shock was that much …

Category: Big Business, Environmental Issues, Politics, TravelTag: carbon footprint of long distance flying, Climate Change - The Facts, Extinction Rebellion, Financial Times magazine, global warming, Greta Thunberg, The Rise of Extinction Rebellion

Prescription chaos over medical cannabis

10/04/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

Most people will remember heart rending stories last summer about Alfie Dingley, the seven-year-old who suffered from a rare form of epilepsy that caused him to have up to 150 seizures month. No conventional epilepsy medication worked for Alfie, but his seizures could be …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Conventional Medicine, Food/Health Policy, Medical Cannabis, PoliticsTag: Alfie Dingley, British Paediatric Neurology Association guidance on prescription of medical cannabis, DBPCT for medical cannabis, Emma Appleby, Guidance on prescription of medical cannabis, Hannah Deacon, medical cannabis, medical cannabis for epilepsy, medical cannabis for pain relief, NHS England guidance on prescription of medical cannabis, Professor Michael Barnes, Professor Mike Barnes, Professor Sally Davies and medical cannabis, Royal College of Physicians guidance on the prescription of medical cannabis, Teagan Appleby

‘Why 5G makes me reconsider the health effects of cell phones’

05/04/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Not my words but those of Susan Crawford, John A. Reilly Clinical Professor at Harvard Law School, author of Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution—and Why America Might Miss It; Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, and co-author of The …

Category: Big Business, Electrosensitivity, Environmental Issues, Food/Health Policy, PoliticsTag: 5G, 5g and Huawei, 5G and security risks, Brussels rejects 5G, Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, Céline Fremault, Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution—and Why America Might Miss It, Health effects of 5G, Health effects of manmade electromagnetic radiation, Susan Crawford - Wired, The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance, Wired magazine

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