In her first interview as Environment Secretary,Caroline Spelman, who has a background in biotech lobbying, has indicated the new coalition governments unprecedented pro-GM stance, backing wider selling and growing of so called Frankenfood and bringing this highly contentious issue once more to the fore. In the Guardian interview, the head of DEFRA said she was…
Read moreYour money or your… Accreditation
Food accreditation is everywhere now but who is certifying the certifiers? The phrase 'uncertified organic' is cropping up (apologies) more and more regularly, to describe product from farmers who follow organic practices but bluntly refuse, on either moral or fiscal grounds, to pay an organisation large sums of money to tell them and…
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