Keen to have your little one avoid the over-processed, additive-packed diet of today’s obesity-prone youth? Then give your weaning baby healthy eating habits for life by starting them off with nutritious food easily made at home writes Matilda Lee
… Box-scheme babyfood Matilda Lee | 14th June 2007 Ethical Living Green Living Baby-food Box-scheme FoodBaby Children Health …
The dominant story about the future of the world food supply is logical, well known and widely disseminated, writes Jonathan Foley. It is also completely wrong.
… Changing the global food narrative Jonathan Foley | 1st January … energy policy in the past, and yelled "Drill, Baby, Drill!" I think we're obsessed with a "Grow, Baby, Grow!" mentality in agriculture too. In …
India's food system, essentially clean just a generation ago, has been comprehensively contaminated with sugar, bad fats, synthetic additives, GMOs and pesticides under the country's neoliberal 'great leap forwards', writes Colin Todhunter. The result? a surge in obesity, diabetes and cancer incidence, but no let-up in the under-nutrition of those too poor to join in the over-consumption.
… malnutrition and the globalisation of bad food Colin Todhunter | 4th April 2016 Comment Food Farming India Trade GMOs Health … Toxics mcdonalds-india-cut.jpg India's food system, essentially clean just a …
Rice can often contain high levels of arsenic, writes Andy Meharg. But while levels of this highly toxic element are tightly regulated in water, the EU has set no limits for arsenic in food. This needs to change, fast - and until it does, be careful not to feed too much rice to babies and small children ...
… of arsenic - so why isn't it regulated in our food? Andy Meharg | 8th November 2014 Comment Food Farming Toxics baby-rice-cut.jpg Rice can often contain high … alternatives to rice, so rethinking babyfoods is an obvious way to proceed. Top …
Organic baby food company Ella's Kitchen is already big in the UK and Scandinavia, and now aiming to crack the US. Co-founder Alison Lindley discusses the difficulties of keeping it green during a period of meteoric growth
… Ella's Kitchen Alison Lindley Paul Lindley Baby Children Food Banana Organic ek-logo.jpg Organic babyfood company Ella's Kitchen is already …
China's growing 'bling' culture has taken off big time, writes Thembi Mutch - yet it is widely reviled among ordinary people who in the face of China's industrial boom hold resolutely to traditional values of economy and frugality, quietly yearning for the old days of clean air and safe, wholesome food to fill their stomachs.
… deep desire for healthy living and wholesome food Thembi Mutch | 24th April 2015 News China … So unsurprisingly, it's food - or rather baby milk formula - along with a particularly … be mass environmental awareness in China. The baby milk scandal has been bubbling away for a …
Tickets to today's Feeding the World conference in London cost £695 - a sure way to exclude the small and family farmers that produce 70% of the world's food. Graciela Romero denounces the global corporate takeover of land, food and farming.
… Graciela Romero | 13th February 2014 Comment Food Farming moz-farmers-2.png Tickets to … farmers that produce 70% of the world's food. Graciela Romero denounces the global … very same chemicals. Or that Nestlé - The Baby Killer - as exposed by War on Want , …
A widely publicised study has suggested that eating organic food doesn't stop you getting cancer. Pat Thomas finds the study deeply unconvincing - and wonders why Cancer Research UK is so quick to trumpet its conclusions.
… Does organic food reduce cancer risk? Pat Thomas | 16th April 2014 Comment Food Farming Health red-cabbage.png A widely … study has suggested that eating organic food doesn't stop you getting cancer. Pat …
Marketed as a superfood with almost magical properties, soya protein is found in almost everything we eat. It’s a shame its health claims aren’t worth a bean, says Pat Thomas
… 2009 Ethical Living Behind The Label Soya Gm Food Soya Food And Farming Soya_BTL_MAIN.jpg … of isoflavones in infants fed soya-based baby formula were 13,000 to 22,000 times … oestrogen) concentrations in infants fed baby formula made with cow’s milk. Most …
Lord Krebs, self-appointed spokesman for industrial agriculture, used the Oxford Farming Conference to attack organic systems for causing more climate change - a claim as demonstrably false as it is ludicrous, writes Peter Melchett. But across the city, the upstart 'real farming' conference was showing the way to a cleaner, greener and healthier future.
… Peter Melchett | 8th January 2015 News Food Farming GMOs Health Climate Change … demoted from the "future for all farming and food" that was heralded in the 1990s. Under … the English Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is happy to forget that …
La Guajira, a dusty but spartanly beautiful region in Colombia's desert north is in the grips of a crisis. Climate change, desertification and water shortages have combined to create a perfect storm for the local rural community: a drought so severe some places did not feel a drop of rain for three years writes LAURA DIXON
… effects of climate change, drought and rising food prices Laura Dixon - La Guajira Colombia … he flips through a paper chart, looks at the baby girl in front of him, and raises her … for her low weight. The next patient, another baby girl with tiny yellow socks, weighs at …
Mexico's conquistadors outlawed amaranth - a highly nutritious seed farmed by the indigenous peoples for millennia - due to its use in religious rituals. But it's now being hailed as a 'superfood', writes Anna Bruce, and a growing number of Mexican campesinos are once again cultivating the 'noble plant' among their corn, squash and beans.
… - Mexican farmers rediscover an ancient superfood Anna Bruce | 25th October 2014 Comment Mexico Indigenous Peoples Farming Food History amaranth-seedhead-cut.jpg … was made to make symbolic objects for the baby. When the Spanish arrived in Mexico they …
Organic farming produces more nutritious food than chemical agriculture, writes Colin Todhunter, while sustaining soils and building organic matter. And we know this from real, peer-reviewed scientific studies - unlike the pseudo-science touted at us by the self-interested advocates of industrial agribusiness.
… Todhunter | 29th October 2015 Comment Farming Food Health India Toxics … Organic farming produces more nutritious food than chemical agriculture, writes Colin … showed that organic crops and crop-based foods are 18% to 69% higher in a number of key …
How we farm matters, writes Pat Thomas - not just for water, insects, birds and the wider environment, which benefit from organic farming, but also the nutritional value of our food. It's time to value the quality of what we eat, instead of prizing quantity above all.
… Pat Thomas | 1st August 2014 Comment Food Farming Health Organic … but also the nutritional value of our food. It's time to value the quality of what … on fruits, vegetable and grains (as well as babyfoods, wine and seed oils). Had the …
Scientists, environmental and consumer groups have decried USDA's approval of two 'Arctic' apple varieties, while major food companies and apple growers have no plans to source or grow them - despite their potential to 'generate consumer excitement in the apple category.'
… 2015 News Farming USA GMOs Regulation Food apples-cut.jpg Scientists, environmental … including McDonald's and Gerber, Nestle's babyfood brand, have already stated that they … that the market - from grocery retailers to babyfood companies - continues to listen to …
Much of our meat and dairy produce is made from animals raised on GM feeds. Alarming new claims suggest that the GM diet is affecting animal health - prompting fears over human safety. Andrew Wasley reports ...
… 28th November 2013 News Gm Animal Health GMOs Food Farming Investigations News Food Safety Livestock … in cattle, says farmers - and the wider food industry including supermarkets - should …
Regulatory failures are allowing Danish pigs infected with lethal antibiotic-resistant bacteria into British farms, writes Andrew Wasley, with contaminated pork found in UK supermarkets, and three human infections recorded. The official response? Deny there's a problem, take no action, and hope for the best. Six people may have died from the bug in Denmark, but the UK is safe, surely?
… pigs get into Britain unchecked, contaminate food chain Andrew Wasley Bureau of … Journalism | 14th October 2016 News Health Food Farming UK Denmark EU Regulation piglets … from the Danish Ministry of Environment and Food, said that the official MRSA screening …
More than a 100 pesticides are licenced for spraying on the humble lettuce. As well as posing a threat to consumers, workers harvesting the crop can face contamination and poisoning
… Mole | 1st September 2011 Comment Pesticides Food And Farming Food pesticidetractor.jpg More than a 100 … are sprayed on farmland annually to grow the food that we eat. Toxic threats A great number …
From the day that Danish pig farmer Ib Borup Pederson switched away from GM soy, his animals became healthier and more productive. Birth deformities reduced, sows became more fertile, medicine costs fell, and profits went up. The changes were linked to the reduction in the levels of the herbicide glyphosate in their feed.
… | 18th September 2014 News Health Toxics Food Farming Denmark China deformed-pig.jpg … he said to me: "You have changed the food." He always notices whenever there is any … Something very good was happening with the food as the pigs were not getting diarrhoea …
Spring has (whisper it) sprung, so make the most of the fresh greens and foraged treats popping up in winter’s wake. Gardening expert James Taylor suggests five to get stuck into
… Ben Hudson | 5th March 2012 Ethical Living FoodFood And Farming Surrey Docks Farm James … onions. Boasting a subtle, delicate flavour, baby spring onions taste wonderful in salads, …
Advocates of Golden Rice - a GMO rice that produces Vitamin A - present the debate over its use a clear moral choice with only one possible conclusion. But as Clare Westwood writes, the reality is very different ...
… Westwood | 13th February 2014 Comment GMOs Food Farming golden-rice-irri.png Advocates of … but went on to develop GR2 itself. On World Food Day in 2004, it announced the donation of … to) use in developing countries (low-income, food-deficit countries as defined by the UN …
Europe's biggest organic fair kicks off today in Valencia, writes Pedro Burruezo - 30 years after the first ever BioCultura event in Madrid in 1985 kicked off Spain's organic revolution. Since then Spain has become Europe's biggest organic producer, and the sector is growing at a dizzying rate of over 10% a year.
… España | 27th February 2015 Ethical Living Food Farming Organic Spain … A few families who were concerned about the food we were eating and about damage caused to … that drove us to take action in this agri-food universe." Today, accreditation …
After an apparent cave-in to Europe's pesticide industry, the European Food Safety Authority's latest guidance on pesticides conflicts with European law, writes Georgina Downs - by ignoring the real-life agrochemical exposure of rural residents. Commission President Juncker must step in and demand the withdrawal of this disgraceful document.
… Georgina Downs | 4th December 2014 News Food Farming EU Corporations Law Regulation … to Europe's pesticide industry, the European Food Safety Authority's latest guidance on … of a new Guidance document from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on the assessment …
Faced with the rise of antibiotic-resistant 'superbugs' we desperately need to curtail the use of antibiotics on farms - and develop new and effective treatments. The answer, says Aidan Hollis, is to make the farmer pay.
… Hollis | 14th January 2014 Comment Drugs Food Farming pig-farm.png Faced with the rise … to try to limit this practice. FDA taking 'baby steps' The EU has since 2006 banned the … . In the US, the FDA has been taking baby steps towards a voluntary ban on growth …