All articles by Joanna Blythman – Page 10
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Comment & OpinionSecond Opinion: Yes, we can eat odd-shaped veg
If the Obamas are on the case with organic, retailers should take note, says Joanna Blythman
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Comment & OpinionSecond Opinion: Why are we wasting our calves?
A shift to dual-purpose breeds could improve food supply and welfare, says Joanna Blythman
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Comment & Opinion
Second Opinion: Backwoods Britain strikes again
Our Government stands alone in Europe in defending hazardous pesticides, says Joanna Blythman
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News
Second Opinion: Looking good on the big screen
The Co-op Group's advert combines individuality with public perception, says Joanna Blythman
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Comment & Opinion
Second Opinion: Why reinvent the wheel on food?
The FSA should copy the Soil Association's positive approach to nutrition, Joanna Blythman
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Second Opinion: Intensive farming courts disease
The latest case of ISA in Scotland's salmon farms comes as no surprise, says Joanna Blythman
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Comment & Opinion
Second Opinion: Return to scratch cooking is here
The impending recession is giving Brits a much-needed nutritional nudge, says Joanna Blythman
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Comment & Opinion
Second Opinion: The bad food get-out-of-jail card
Teaching kids how to cook is a good idea, but where's the British produce, asks Joanna Blythman
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Comment & Opinion
Second Opinion: Close the door on GM evangelists
The lobbyists' argument hasn't changed - but the world's view of GM has, says Joanna Blythman
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Second Opinion: It need not be just another cuppa
The true potential of tea has been lost in commoditisation and gimmickry, argues Joanna Blythman
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Comment & Opinion
Second Opinion: Beware lazy ways with antibiotics
Switching to less intensive farming methods with less use of antibiotics is essential to prevent the dangers to public health caused by growing bacteria resistance. There’s a time bomb ticking away in our food chain. The overuse of antibiotics in the...
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Don’t let’s become gooseberry fools
The supermarkets’ obsession with exotic fruit is leading to the neglect of British classics such as gooseberries and damsons. So now we can add the baobab to the list of weird and wonderful fruit novelties on supermarket shelves. Loaded with vitamin...
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Regaining the art of carrot peeling
We've paid a ludicrously high price for convenience in the past. Now it's time to get a little wiser in our approach to cooking affordably. Have you noticed how supermarket supremos have stopped mouthing off about the cash-rich/time-poor...
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Now or never for global fish stocks
Without radical action our favourite fish will disappear from dinner plates. Ministers should listen to environmentalists, not trawlermen. Top chefs Raymond Blanc and Tom Aikens are joining forces with Greenpeace at Old Billingsgate ...
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I want food, not a chemical cocktail
The World Cancer Research Fund report must not be dismissed as alarmism. It should prompt more study into what goes into our food. Isaw Professor Sir Michael Marmot, chair of the World Cancer Research Fund's review into the causes of...
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Meat must escape price straitjacket
Farmers could escape supermarket pricing pressures by returning to traditional free-range and slow-maturing ways of producing meat. Arable farmers are sitting pretty. Thanks to drought and flood in key grain-growing areas of the world,...
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Comment & Opinion
TV makers: where is their morality?
Ofcom's ban on junk food advertising during children's TV broadcasting has prompted a predictable chorus of whingeing. Advertisers hate it - well no surprise there - but I did raise an eyebrow at the outcry from programme makers bemoaning the...
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Go bananas for Caribbean fruits
A decade ago, two-thirds of the bananas we ate in Britain came from the Caribbean, notably the Windward Islands of Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada. Now sales have been whittled away to less than 10% as cheaper fruits from the...