How come the food industry is so successful in persuading us - and our kids - to buy sweet, sugary, unhealthy food instead of healthy veg? Easy.... They are tapping in to the fact that our 10,000 year old DNA still believes that when we come across something sweet (ripe …
Geoff Tansey
Rat hairs, hormones and chlorine – why food standards matter in trade deals
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 …
We all worry about climate change but who worries about biodiversity?
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 …
Public health – some movement?
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 …
Welcome to the Food Systems Academy
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 …