Rob believes that I know a lot about food and nutrition, so he is encouraging me to ‘have my say’ on this blog whenever I feel moved to do so. The truth is that I feel moved most of the time, and often voice my opinion about something I have heard or read. So there [...]
My inbox this week has included three emails from different sources with the same message, “Sign this petition and stop the EU bureaucrats from banning herbal medicines and making alternative healing illegal.” Or words to that effect. All three display varying levels of hysteria, and one in particular grew more hysterical as the text progressed [...]
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For those of you who have heard nothing about the proposed dairy operation at Nocton Heath in Lincolnshire, let me just say that there are plans afoot to build a US-style factory mega-dairy here. The original application was for the construction of a dairy factory that would house 8100 cows, but this number has since [...]
If you have landed on this site for the first time, here is something you might like to know: this blog is a phoenix, risen from the ashes of a previous online diary, which perished in the flames of website re-design in August 2010, and was not reborn until November. In the interim, twenty new [...]
In my self-appointed role as urban mythbuster, iconoclastic terminator of sacred cows and derider of naked emperors, I have during recent public appearances been expounding my thoughts on the damage caused to our planet by the global industrial food system. Regular followers of these musings may well have noticed that I have touched on this [...]
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Well, it seems that I was not imagining things when I thought my computer had been switching itself on in my absence, as reported way back on 20th October, because on 29th October the phenomenon recurred. This technological equivalent of spontaneous combustion happened while I was sitting in front of the screen . . . [...]
Anyone who knows me knows that I have a thing about eggs. I’m pretty sure you won’t find it listed as a treatable condition in Black’s Medical Dictionary, and it is probably something that a qualified psychoanalyst might not have come across in the course of a professional life, but nevertheless there are some people [...]
Of all the dogs I have ever seen being taken out for a walk by their human minders, there is one in particular, a handsome little Jack Russell, to whom my heart goes out. Every time I see him, he is on a short leash in the grip of a brutish owner who quite clearly [...]
I love the autumn, yet I cannot say that it is my favourite season. That is because I do not have a favourite season – each has its special merits, and they are all seamlessly interconnected. The way I see it, each day begins anew as the sun comes up and drifts into darkness as [...]