All articles by Joanna Blythman – Page 6
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Comment & OpinionLessons from Brazil's crusade against processed food
I’m not recommending another bikini body diet, but the latest Brazilian Ministry of Health’s dietary guidelines
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Comment & OpinionThe anti-meat campaign is flawed, generic and ideological
“We must all eat less meat”, articulated with sanctimonious evangelism, has become a familiar chant
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NewsProtected food names are being rendered meaningless
My enthusiasm for the European protected food names schemes has been waning for years
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Comment & OpinionA sugar tax? How regressive!
The case against sugar is strong, but a new tax is unlikely to achieve lasting change, says Joanna Blythman
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NewsRapeseed oil is an upstart that needs slapping down
Rapeseed oil is all the rage right now, but Joanna Blythman is unimpressed
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Comment & OpinionCutesy food for fussy little eaters is nonsense
”On Woman’s Hour recently I locked horns with Annabel Karmel, infant food guru”
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Comment & OpinionFree parking: an unfair advantage for the supermarkets
Disillusionment with UK supermarkets grows apace, but free parking still gives them one crucial, unfair advantage
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Comment & OpinionJoanna Blythman: Fatuous UK healthy eating advice is being challenged by US
Last century’s food demons – fat, cholesterol and salt – are being rehabilitated
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Comment & OpinionProcessed food's effects on gut worry Joanna Blythman
A whole new reason to avoid processed food is being flagged up by Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology…
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Comment & OpinionDoes Swallow This herald another annus horribilis for food?
Joanna Blythman’s book has received an awful lot of press, but what are the consequences for the industry?
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Comment & OpinionJoanna Blythman blasts supermarkets for poverty hypocrisy
How dare supermarkets masquerade as the saviours of those in poverty…
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Comment & OpinionThe wheels are coming off the Big Food-Big Retail wagon
Symptoms of the malaise in our food system form an orderly queue these days, like black cabs at a taxi rank…
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Comment & OpinionPutting Palestinian food and drink on the map
When Zaytoun was set up 10 years ago as a community interest company to develop a market for artisan Palestinian food…
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Comment & OpinionStealthy spread of SMOs should concern consumer goods industry
The war between citizens and Big Food Inc is an asymmetrical affair yet, as with David and Goliath…
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Comment & OpinionTransatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership implications
Over the past two years I have been investigating processed food for my forthcoming book…
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Comment & OpinionDiscounter disillusion: Aldi and Lidl have a long way to go
I have not been carried away by the current wave of enthusiasm for the German discounters…
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Comment & OpinionWhy is UK fruit so expensive? asks Joanna Blythman
Back in Britain after a spell abroad, I can feel my healthy, sun-kissed diet go down the tube…
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Comment & OpinionTime for action on Thai prawn trade slavery
Supermarkets and fish importers can claim to be shocked by the Thai tiger prawn trade slavery, but not surprised…
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Comment & OpinionJoanna Blythman blasts refusal to update dietary advice
What, exactly, is the government’s healthy eating advice based on?…
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Comment & OpinionMeat Free May highlights the need for a defence of meat
My exasperation with the anti-meat lobby has come to the boil. The final straw was Friends of the Earth’s Meat Free May…