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Geoff Tansey

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

We all worry about climate change but who worries about biodiversity?

19/02/2018 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Currently we are all panicking about plastic and rising temperatures, but, as Geoff Tansey points out in an interesting blog, do we worry enough about the soil and soil biodiversity? Is that not as, if not more, important than climate change? Healthy soils depends on their …

Category: Environmental IssuesTag: 33% of then world's land is moderately to highly degraded, Geoff Tansey, soil biodiversity, soil degradation

Public health – some movement?

02/11/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

Two events last week might just bestir the powers that are into action. Although the rhetoric so far on the proposed tax on sugar-laden soft drinks is not encouraging. Specifically on sugar, a new study was published this week suggesting that, despite the protestations of the …

Category: Behavioural conditions / autism, Big Business, Conventional Medicine, Environmental Issues, Food/Health Policy, NutritionTag: advertising unhealthy foods to children, BSEM, BSEM conference on sugar, commission calls for tax on sugary drinks, Dr Robert Lustig, fabian Commission on Food and Poverty, Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar, food insecurity, Geoff Tansey, Hungry for change, sugar and calories, sugar and liver fat, sugar and visceral fat, sugar's effects on health, sugar'sdetrimental effects on health, the poverty premium

Welcome to the Food Systems Academy

21/12/2014 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

It is very easy for any of us to get stuck in our own little area of interest - no matter how important a one it may be. I am glad to say that I am regularly dragged out of mine by my good friend Geoff Tansey who, as long as I have known him, has worked in the much wider world of …

Category: Big Business, Environmental Issues, Food, Food/Health Policy, Nutrition, PoliticsTag: 800 million people worlwide go hungry, Food Policy Journal, food security, food systems, Food Systems Academy, Geoff Tansey, Pig International magazine, subsistence farmers in Guangxi, TED talks, Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPS

Really annoying plastic bottles……

11/09/2011 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

I guess we are all up for doing our bit to be green and save the planet. We dutifully separate the plastic from the glass, from the tin, from the paper, from the cardboard, and put them all into different bags to be collected by the recycling truck which, in Camden, then chucks …

Category: Environmental IssuesTag: Blue W, De Dopper, Geoff Tansey, jointhepipe, plastic bottles, Tap It, tapwater.org, We Tap Water

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