All articles by Joanna Blythman – Page 7
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Comment and Opinion
Nutrition 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 and Opinion
It'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 and Opinion
Locals 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 and Opinion
Forget 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 and Opinion
Barilla 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 and Opinion
Pesticides: 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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News
Fine 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 and Opinion
Sustainable farming means animals should be kept outside
In our green land, pasture-fed meat production makes total sense…
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Comment and Opinion
GM feed: supermarkets are talking tosh
What tosh supermarkets talk about listening to their customers…
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Comment and Opinion
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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Comment and Opinion
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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Comment and Opinion
Making a virtue of junk
After horsegate, people might prefer to make their own spaghetti bolognese. Hopelessly idealistic?…
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Comment and Opinion
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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Comment and Opinion
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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Comment and Opinion
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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Comment and Opinion
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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Comment and Opinion
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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Comment and Opinion
Say no to imported soya
Visionary farmers are trying to break Britain’s unhealthy reliance on imported soya for animal feed…
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Comment and Opinion
Educating the anti-salt lobby
As someone who has low, not high, blood pressure, I get a little irritated with health charities on a salt reduction crusade.
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Comment and Opinion
Local food is the future
Our food system has been engineered to suit the bottom line of giant retailers. The near disappearance of food from living streets must be remedied.