NATIONAL FARMERS UNION leader Peter Kendall has seen members endure a miserable 10 months but concerns over food security, prices and sourcing in the wake of the horse meat scandal could offer new opportunities, he tells David Burrows. To travel 600 miles [...]
DEBATE CONTINUES to rage over whether there is enough GM-free soya available for the UK’s poultry market. Earlier this week, four leading supermarkets announced that they have removed requirements for their poultry suppliers to use only GM-free feed, largely in the form of soya. They [...]
THREE OF THE country’s more ethical supermarkets have removed requirements for their suppliers to give poultry only GM-free feed. Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer and The Coop have all announced changes to their policies given that they could no longer guarantee the integrity of GM-free soy. [...]
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IN EUROPE, genetically modified crops have remained in labs while the rest of the world plants more and more. Does the technology need a champion? It seemed apt that the Footprint Forum to discuss the sensitive issue of genetically modified (GM) crops took place in [...]
On the 28th of February, members and guests of Footprint Forum gathered at the U.S. Embassy in London to debate GM – Contemptible or Inevitable. The objective of this session was to remove polarised subjectivity from the debate and frame the issue of genetically modified foods in the context of sustainability and sustainable supply chains. [...]
RETAILERS have exceeded their environmental targets relating to waste, transport and energy, according to a new progress report. The report, “A Better Retailing Climate”, shows how the sector is performing across a range of impacts. In each case it has exceeded expectations, except for [...]
ONE OF America’s most senior experts on biotechnology has warned that Europe won’t accept genetically modified (GM) foods unless there is a food crisis. Addressing the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Food, Drink & Agriculture (CIM FDA) group last week, Jack Bobo, senior adviser for biotechnology at [...]
GENETICALLY MODIFIED foods have very little chance of being accepted in Europe unless celebrity chefs and retailers back them. With UK retailers having put expansive GM-free policies in place – both for food and livestock feed – and misinformation in the mainstream [...]
ACCORDING TO dubious research cooked up for a marketing campaign a few years ago the third Monday of January deserves the title of “Blue Monday”. That’s when people are at their most miserable, thanks to a combination of post-Christmas blues, cold dark nights and the arrival of unpaid credit card bills. This year it fell on [...]
