Category: food

The Mind Thieves

The evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to the food industry is strong and growing.

The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing.

The EU, Norway, Iceland and the Faroes all blame each other for smashing the last great fish stock. All are wrong.

The government and the industry promised that they had dealt with aminopyralid poisoning. They haven’t.

How to make and store your own apple juice.

A new book has forced me to reconsider my views on food.

Green enthusiasm for vertical farms shows that no one is untouched by magical thinking.

A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own.

A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.

If you care about hunger, eat less meat.

How to grow vegetables without breaking your back

A new generation of biofuels turns out to be another environmental disaster

Biofuels could kill more people than the Iraq war.

Are we already shutting our minds to the consequences of climate change?

Why is it still acceptable to eat the endangered large predators of the sea?

We need a five-year freeze on biofuels, before they wreck the planet.

Global freshwater supplies could start to determine whether or not we can feed ourselves.

Not Enough Fish in the Sea We need omega-3 oils for our brains to function properly. But where will they come from?

If governments really want to improve law and order, they should ban adverts for junk food

Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth