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Environmental toxins worsen obesity pandemic
The Guardian reports on three review papers showing that chemical pollutants called “obesogens”...
Exploding the five fat myths of ethical food
Consumers – in other words all of us who eat – want ethical...
Global approach to labelling needed for gene-edited crops
Governments must urgently adopt policies allowing smallholder farmers to benefit from genome-edited crops,...
Flawed Food Compass metric could misguide tax and investment decisions
Flaws in a new food metric could hinder public health efforts and misguide...
Confronting novel entities – a severe problem that’s being ignored
I live in a wealthy part of the British Isles, a Unesco site,...
The Meat Paradox by Rob Percival — carnivore confusion
The Financial Times asks, if you had to be reincarnated as a chicken,...
Eco-scores influencing purchasing decisions
Footprint reports that more than two out of three consumers have chosen a...
OmniAction launches to tackle greenwashing, slavery, land theft, poor diets
“There needs to be action to bring food metrics together. The time has...
New bioengineered, GMO labels will confuse US consumers
New GMO labels, which came into effect this month in America, will only...
Australia is on the trans-fatty acid “fail” list
Countries with the most trans fat in their food supply have yet to...
Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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