With the new year comes a new sense of desperation among campaigners working to amend the Traditional Herbal Medicine Products Directive which comes into force on 30th April this year and which will effectively illegalise hundreds of medicinal herbs used in food supplements and …
Food/health policy
More on Airport Scanners
A couple of months ago I posted a piece on the Foodsmatter website about the airport whole-body backscatter X-ray scanners which are making air travel in the US even more unpleasant and potentially dangerous than it already was. (See the third section of the …
Face Your Food!
The interactivity of the modern internet has certainly allowed full reign to creative spirits! Take the latest viral campaign from the lobbying group FairFood who use social media and on line communications in their attempts to raise levels of sustainability in the food and drink …
Of lamposts, smart meters, airport scanners – and Starbucks!
I wanted to encourage everyone, when they get their e-newsletter tomorrow, to read my article on lamp posts... Not really because I want you to read the article – although that would be nice of course – but because I want to stir you up to do some protesting... In essence I am …
Ethics in Medicine
Many people may have been shocked by President Obama's recent apology to the Guatemalans for deliberating infecting hundreds of their parents and grandparents' generation in the 1940s with gonorrhea and syphilis so that they could test the efficacy of a new antibiotic, but this …