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.
… Organic farming boosts environment and nutrition Pat Thomas | 1st August 2014 Comment Food Farming Health Organic … wider environment, which benefit from organic farming, but also the nutritional value of our …
Is it worse than Mc Donalds? The BLT sandwich is an icon, the ultimate symbol of convenience culture. Tesco alone sells 5 million a year. This is what the £1.80 you pay for your BLT buys...
… News Food BLT Fast Food Junk Food Pigs Bacon Farming Pesticides Proccessed Food Processed Farming Fast Food Green Lifestyle Agribusiness … Pests And Pesticides Biotechnology Factory Farming Organics Agribusiness Additives …
Two decades ago the world's first GM foods went on sale, writes Pat Thomas. The consumer flirtation with GMOs soon died away, yet the biotech industry has grown into a global behemoth, driving agricultural intensification and sending agro-chemical sales through the roof. It's time for us to take a stand once again and insist: there are better, healthier ways of growing food.
… February 2015 Activism GMOs Consumerism Food Farming Corporations Two decades ago the … to deliver. A damaging, outdated approach to farming What this anniversary highlights is … industrialised monoculture chemical-heavy farming was the way to feed the world. No …
Four trustees of the Soil Association just resigned, 'more in sorrow than in anger'. Joanna Blythman, Lynda Brown, Andrew Whitley and former Ecologist editor Pat Thomas all decided they were unable to contribute further to the organisation, the UK's leading organic certifier and the 'mother ship' of British organic farming.
… Pat Thomas | 1st December 2014 Comment Food Farming UK Organic leek-picking-cut.jpg Four … and the 'mother ship' of British organic farming. We expect fellow members of the Soil … think that the organic approach to food and farming is ecologically coherent, humane, …
The Panorama programme on GM foods and crops last Monday was a masterpiece of spin, bluster, misrepresentation and outright deceit, write Lawrence Woodward & Pat Thomas, with the BBC's top investigatory strand hijacked to force feed the UK population with the purest of pro-GMO propaganda.
… June 2015 Comment GMOs Media UK Science Food Farming Bangladesh … anyone who raises questions about GM food and farming. Mark Lynas : Sweating manfully in the … who question the GMO approach to food and farming ran right through the programme. …
You may think that by avoiding the near-extinct bluefin you're off the hook and can tuck into other types of tuna. Think again, says Pat Thomas
… in order to be healthy the answer is no. Tuna farming has all the attendant problems of … to be dosed up with hormones. Sadly, the fish-farming of today has more in common with the … Ecologist article 'Fishy Business' ). And farming, which occurs in pens at sea is no …
Increasing quantities of 'hidden GMOs' are finding their way into our diet, writes Pat Thomas. They are coming mainly in US imports for supermarkets and caterers, and in animal feeds used for meat, dairy and egg production. It's time for chefs, pubs, takeaways and restaurants to take responsibility for the food chains that supply them - labelling the GMOs in their meals, and better still, cutting them out.
… Thomas | 31st March 2017 Activism GMOs Food Farming UK USA pub-meal-cut.jpg Increasing … are taken up more and more into the farming and food chain. The internationally … where up to 70% of the public is against farming or eating GMOs, an acknowledgement on …
It's the condiment of choice for a million fast-food outlets and a staple sauce in homes around the world, but there's more to tomato ketchup than meets the eye, says Pat Thomas
… end leakage of refrigerants was left out. Farming and pesticides On the farming side, the assimilation of carbon …
All organic food must meet a common set of minimum standards, as defined by the EU. Each EU member state has a national control body; the United Kingdom Register of Organic Food Standards (UKROFS) regulates the activities of six certification bodies in the UK. The oldest and largest, the Soil Association (founded in 1946), currently undertakes 80 per cent of all certification in the UK and is arguably the organic label most trusted by consumers.
… Eco Labels Organic Food Market Food And Farming All organic food must meet a common …
With the Wall Street Journal warning that the GMO crop boom may be over in the face of superweeds, higher seed prices, falling yields and farmer antipathy, writes Pat Thomas, the Monsanto-Bayer merger is a sign of weakness as both companies struggle to deliver growth and profits to match shareholder expectations. We had better be ready to press home our advantage!
… | 19th September 2016 News Corporations Farming Finance Food US EU Pesticides … mergers are bad for business, bad for farming and ultimately bad for the consumer. …
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.
… Pat Thomas | 16th April 2014 Comment Food Farming Health red-cabbage.png A widely …
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
… Behind The Label Soya Gm Food Soya Food And Farming Soya_BTL_MAIN.jpg Marketed as a …
It has spawned a dozen urban legends. It gets praised and reviled by bloggers. And it tastes like carbonated cough syrup. But does Red Bull do you any good? Pat Thomas reports
… Risk Food And Health Supplements Food And Farming Health red-bulllg.jpg It has spawned a …
The development of meat-like foods is introducing GM and novel technology into our diets. This presents new risks to our health, but also to the complex development of behaviour to prevent environmental destruction, argues PAT THOMAS
… are largely those who have no experience of farming or interest in food as anything other …