All articles by Joanna Blythman – Page 8
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Comment & 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 & 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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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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Comment & 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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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…
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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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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.
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The danger of too many own-label products
The news from Mintel that British shoppers now buy more own-label products than branded goods has been widely interpreted…
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Comment & Opinion
Morrisons out ot touch on GM
Morrisons’ rearguard decision to allow its farmers to use GM feed looks spectacularly ill-informed and dumb given Carrefour labels…
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Time to stop the big box creep
It’s a measure of the unpopularity of supermarkets in the Scottish capital these days that chains now acquire empty premises on the quiet.
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Comment & Opinion
Shoppers will stick with organic
I am not one of those rushing to write an obituary for organics. Since the recession, sales of organic food have slowed a bit, but so what?
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Bring back our forgotten foods
Protection of our country’s distinctive, authentic foods can’t come soon enough; life is hard for the dedicated people who keep them going.
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At last, some palatable diet advice
Slimmers blame themselves for lacking willpower and self-control, but might the explanation for failure lie elsewhere?
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Analysis & FeaturesUnsentimental journey
From farm to consumer, the journey our food takes is mired in controversy. Joanna Blythman picks out the 10 issues that have generated the most heated debate in recent decades
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Comment & Opinion
What's hiding in your pudding?
Shop-bought Christmas cakes are tempting - but beware scary ingredients.
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Comment & Opinion
A dirty industry in a clean land
Salmon regulators have been in denial about the environmental catastrophe that salmon…