All articles by Joanna Blythman – Page 7
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Comment & OpinionIs there a sweet solution to the sugar problem?
The sugar lobby has lost its war to keep a lid on the health risks posed by its product…
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Comment & OpinionA GM spud we just don't need
The latest push to get GM food on our plates came from the John Innes Centre in Norwich…
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Comment & OpinionNutrition debates should not rely on science alone
In 1902, the US government’s top food chemist was granted funding to investigate the effects of chemical food additives…
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Comment & OpinionIt's time the FSA started treating us like grown-ups
I do wish our public health bodies would stop treating us all like kids…
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Comment & OpinionLocals fight supermarket monoculture
Homebaked, a community bakery, has sprung up in an old bakehouse in the shadow of Liverpool FC’s Anfield stadium…
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Comment & OpinionForget Bake Off - what about a TV veg off?
The commissioning editors of the Great British Bake Off must be well pleased with their viewing figures…
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Comment & OpinionBarilla pasta scandal shows brand ethics are under scrutiny
Barilla may have 206 different types of pasta, yet it looks as though it has never heard of diversity…
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Comment & OpinionPesticides: The mults have a chance to learn from Waitrose
I seem to remember conventional growers blithely telling us there was no need to buy organic…
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NewsFine Food Awards show off artisan excellence
What a privilege it was to judge the Guild of Fine Food’s Great Taste Awards…
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Comment & OpinionSustainable farming means animals should be kept outside
In our green land, pasture-fed meat production makes total sense…
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GM feed: supermarkets are talking tosh
What tosh supermarkets talk about listening to their customers…
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Thatcher's food legacy is still costing us today
I expect Margaret Thatcher’s father, Alfred Roberts, would have been a frequent reader of The Grocer…
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Giraffe deal benefits Tesco not Giraffe
Tesco’s horsemeat traumas have evidently not deterred it from getting involved with other four-legged beasts…
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Making a virtue of junk
After horsegate, people might prefer to make their own spaghetti bolognese. Hopelessly idealistic?…
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Stop horse play with food (and that includes GM)
Groundhog day. Two decades on from BSE, we’re still discussing the dubious provenance of processed meat products….
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In-store butchery is a sham
This coming week will see queues snaking out the door of traditional high street butchers up and down the land…
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Labelling debate is an unhealthy waste of time
Hybrid labelling is beginning to resemble a rather nasty multi-vehicle pile-up at a busy junction. Only last month, the…
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Second Opinion: Two cities nurturing indies
A visit to Amsterdam underlines how diminished our British cityscape has been by the unbridled spread of supermarkets…
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We need more of a buzz about bee crisis
Since we rely on bees to pollinate 90% of our food crops, you’d think we’d treat them with the utmost respect…
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Say no to imported soya
Visionary farmers are trying to break Britain’s unhealthy reliance on imported soya for animal feed…