If you are despairing over the weather, you are not alone… Distressing, urgent news is coming at us so thick and fast at the moment that it is hard to keep up. There’s the EU’s failure to ban bee killing neonics, the UK government’s increasingly pro-GM stance, the ongoing scandals of horsemeat adulteration in our […]
Ignoring the Role of Livestock in Antibiotic Resistance
The UK government says we are heading for antibiotic apocalypse – but it’s working with an incomplete picture of the problem. Antimicrobial resistance is a ticking time-bomb not only for the UK but also for the world, warns the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies. The evidence behind the warning is summed up […]
As big food corporations do their level best to redefine what ‘food’ is, it’s worth asking yourself: What is food? For the purposes of ensuring a booming food industry the basic definition of food adopted by most government agencies is vague and non-committal and goes something like: “any item that is to be processed, partially […]
This week’s UNEP report on the environmental causes of cancer was spread across the newspapers with a great splash. Anyone would think that this analysis was our first inkling that toxic chemicals in our environment, particularly in everyday items like household cleaners, cosmetics and paints as well as those chemicals that leech out of plastics […]
Nutritional dogma has nothing to do with human health. When it arises, you can bet someone’s making money off it. It’s been a week when a couple of the cherished dogmas of nutritional advice have come crashing down. Long may it continue. First, there was the much publicised study, based on data from half […]
What We Ignore, What We Won’t See, What We Don’t Say
Two long running stories of health and deception have suddenly hit the news. I don’t know about you but I feel like we’ve all had to hit the ground running in 2013. Two issues in particular have dominated my inbox: the looming threat of GM salmon and the drip, drip, drip of compensations being awarded […]
Vaccine Hazards – What the UK Government Hid and Ignored
If we want parents to make ‘informed decisions’ then we need to tell them the truth It never rains but it pours and in the last couple of weeks we have found ourselves in the middle of a deluge of news stories about childhood vaccinations. Perhaps as a result, an extraordinary paper, published by a […]
Even with a whole armament of conventional drugs, we aren’t anywhere close to winning the ‘war’ against cancer – and now, according to an eminent scientist, taking antioxidants may actually make the problem worse. Or at least that’s how some of the media have interpreted the recent, and quite complex, article in the journal Open […]
Antibiotics in Your Food – Beyond Bacterial Resistance
Intensive livestock rearing is a particularly bad example of the way humans continue to foul their own nests There are many things to abhor about the way we raise the animals that provide us with meat, milk and eggs. The intensive livestock system is dirty, cruel and unethical. It damages the animals caught up it […]
Too much sugar is bad for you. Decades of research make that statement a pretty sure bet. High sugar diets depress immunity and raise your risk of stroke, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and just about every other modern ill. But anyone who thinks that artificial sweeteners are, by implication, good for you should think again. […]
I am an award-winning campaigner, journalist and author. A former editor of the Ecologist magazine Pat has run campaigns for Paul McCartney’s Meat-Free Monday, Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) and Neal’s Yard Remedies. In 2011, my work leading the campaign, Cows Belong in Fields, won CIWF the Observer Ethical Award for Campaigner of the Year. In 2014 I co-founded the campaigning group, Beyond GM.
I am a qualified psychotherapist and the author more than 40 books for adults and children and I was inducted into Who’s Who in 2014. In addition to my work with Beyond GM, I work occasionally with the film production company Ecostorm. I also currently edit and oversee NYR Natural News – a campaigning natural health website, continue to write in a freelance capacity and make regular public speaking and media appearances.
I have been a trustee of both the Soil Association and the Organic Research Centre in the UK and am currently on the advisory board of GMO Free USA and am a trustee of the investigative media agency, Eyewitness.
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I am interested in and available for short- and long-term projects/consultancies, and am particularly keen on those that focus on food, sustainability and culture change. I am also an experienced public speaker.
My unique professional experience means I bring a variety of skills to any work I do, including effective and persuasive communication and writing skills, an holistic perspective on sustainability and change, and both intuitive and analytical ability. I am well known in my field and comfortable working in most fora.
Recent projects/consultancies include work with: Stella McCartney ‘Care’ range, Paul McCartney’s Meat Free Monday, Friends of the Earth, Compassion in World Farming, Soil Association, Neal’s Yard Remedies.
Recent public speaking engagements: UK Aware, Oxford University PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Society, Durham Union Society (Durham University), Bristol Festival of Nature, World Preservation Foundation, Women’s Institute.
I'm a highly experienced journalist and award winning campaigner specialising in environment and alternative health. I'm also the author of several books for adults and children and a qualified psychotherapist.