All articles by Joanna Blythman – Page 7
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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…
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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…