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The FSA and their so-called ‘Risky foods’

The FSA’s apparent change of heart on raw drinking milk over the summer earlier this year seemed like a breeze of fresh air, a more rational and reasonable approach to the management of food safety risks looked to be in the making. It now seems that a return to historical paranoia is the order of the day.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has recently invented a new category of so-called ‘risky food’. What this new category is for? If the foods had undue risk then why has the FSA not chosen to ban them?
The consumption of almost all foods involves a safety risk. We already have a very effective system for […]

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Paula McIntyre – Interview Terra Madre

Paul McIntyre, member of the Chef Aliance was in Turin for the International Slow Food Biennial: Terra Madre.

Describe your Terra Madre experience in 3 words:
Inspiring, life changing.
What are your best memories in the “Terra Madre” kitchen?
When I think back on the Terra Madre kitchen the laughter of 3 chefs from Uganda and my own, rings in my ears.
I’d brought over guanciale bacon from NI to accompany my eel dish and Esther one […]

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One small gene for crops, one giant threat for mankind.

We are calling for a better food future: a world without GMO. Join us, sign GM-free me lively digital petition: Our voice for a GMO-free Britain.

 

Under the guise of rescuing the starving world, Monsanto, Syngenta and Bayer CropScience, to name but a few, some years ago developed a process to make seeds more resistant to insects, harsh weather conditions and various crops diseases. How? By modifying its genetic heritage. What does this mean exactly? Every living thing contains DNA which […]

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Ark of Taste Product of the Month – November – Badger Face Welsh Mountain Lamb

British lamb - 'use it or lose it'?

Consumers are being failed by supermarkets who favour imported New Zealand lamb to the detriment of UK farmers.
The natural peaks and troughs that define seasonal produce are being eroded by new farming techniques. As a result, New Zealand lamb is available all year round, including during the peak of the British season.
UK farmers export […]

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One in ten thousand – an Ebola story.

Slow Food is working to save Africa's extraordinary biodiversity, to raise the profile of traditional knowledge and food culture and to promote small-scale, family farming. And the 10,000 food gardens is the international project for making this dream a reality. Please support us, donate now. 

Members and supporters of our Slow Food Edinburgh group, who contributed to the 10,000 Gardens in Africa project, have been anxiously awaiting news of ‘their’ garden at Walay-Mamudu in western Sierra Leone since the Ebola epidemic hit that country earlier this year.
On the 8th October, we finally heard from Patrick Mansaray, Slow Food coordinator in Sierra Leone:
“Ebola […]

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