I DIDN’T REALLY want to focus on horses again this month, but after a rather enlightening conference put on by the Food and Environment Research Agency recently and some conversations with those present, I couldn’t help it. As you’ll see from the report on p12, caterers were criticised once again for their reaction to the [...]
I HAVE NEVER been a fish-on-a-Fridaysteak- on-a-Saturday-joint-on-a-Sunday kinda guy, but I do like meat. The thing is I’ve gone off it. In the past couple of years I have not only cooked with more vegetables, but I have also been hit with food envy when eating out and the meals arrive for my vegetarian friends. [...]
THE GOVERNMENT wants us all to eat less salt. We average about 8.1g a day but the target is to cut it to 6g. There are a number of ways to achieve this. Reformulation is one. Look at any of the top food manufacturers in the UK and they will list how many tonnes of [...]
IT’S BEEN a tough couple of weeks for the British food industry. First there was the discovery of horse DNA in burgers supplied by the food manufacturer ABP to the likes of Burger King and Tesco. Then pork DNA turned up in halal pastry products made by McColgan Quality Foods and supplied to prisons through [...]
IT’S BEEN quite a year for foodservice. There have been the highs: the Responsibility Deals on health and waste to name but two. And there have been the lows: the tax avoidance scandal and the low prices paid to farmers for milk. As someone said to me just before Christmas: “If only we knew what [...]
Do you know the price of a pint of milk? I dont and Im notoriously inquisitive when it comes to the supermarket shop. If you do, then well done you, but Id bet you are in the minority (even the former agriculture minister hadnt a clue). However, Id also bet that if you were asked [...]
The idea of sustainable diets has intrigued us for some time. This is a debate which has it all. Science. Headlines. Psychology. Politics. And controversy. Most controversial, of course, is the idea that we westerners will have to cut back on burgers. And go easy on the cheese. Less meat and dairy means less greenhouse [...]
WE ALL remember the shampoo adverts, the ones where actors with shinier than natural hair boasted of taking only one bottle into the shower. Shampoo and conditioner in one bottle was a 90s phenomenon, I think. In the noughties we were then able to take in shower gels that washed and conditioned our hair too. [...]
THE FACT THE GOVERNMENT has failed to meet a sustainability target is not surprising (page 8). This is a government that has gone from the greenest ever to red-faced. Who can forget the Chancellors attack on environmental measures in October: Were not going to save the planet by putting our country out of business. [...]
White lies do not green companies make In the past month I have received press releases highlighting one companys ambition to cut its 122 million tonne carbon footprint, anothers success in slashing 2.5 million tonnes from its green bottom line and one that has zero transport emissions thanks to a policy of providing all staff [...]
