11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food ??? far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping farms out of sight promotes a rosy, unreal picture of big-box agriculture, he argues, as he outlines the case to…
1 DecemberI believe that individual freedom is at the core of any social institutions and within any realm of social endeavour. I am a pure advocate of individual liberty and freedom of action and thought with very few limited exceptions and my life has ref…
20 NovemberHigh fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has, over the past few decades, gradually displaced cane and beet sugar as the sweetener of choice for soft drinks, candy and prepared foods. In recent years, there have been a growing number claims that HFCS is a s…
4 OctoberDiplomatic Standards is an attempt at organizing the chaos of the current organic industry on a global scale and openly. We are an active community that believes that you should understand the importance of having an unclouded source of sustenance…
9 MayThis video deftly skewers the food industry’s current fixations, including This-Is-Why-You’re-Fat-grade hamburgers, fancy TV dinners, and junk food masquerading as wholesome: We take the finest ingredients and put them in a bowl with salt and butt…
6 FebruaryNestl?? has just announced that KitKat ??? Britain’s biggest-selling chocolate bar ??? will carry the Fairtrade logo from next month. But how much do consumers really know about the Fairtrade movement? Is it, as some say, an essential safety net that h…
29 DecemberRoughly speaking, that’s the issue in the EC – Measures Affecting Poultry Meat WTO dispute (DS389), for which the U.S. recently announced it will request a panel. The panel request describes the issue as follows: The EC prohibits the import of pou…
15 October“The first rule of BS is to expect it… If you want to detect BS, you have to swallow some cynicism and add some internal doubt to everything you hear… The first detection tool is a question: How do you know what you know?” Two years ago today …
12 OctoberWe often overlook the basic principles that makes this overreaching communication revolution possible. I know that I for sure often do. The overwhelmingly amount of underlying concepts that goes into sending a word across the Internet, streaming a…
9 October