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Silicon Valley magnates with unlimited cash, very little social conscience and a canny ability to exploit patent laws are set to take control of our food supply – are you ready for fake food to become the new real? “May you live in interesting times” is an ancient Chinese curse – and if you are a […]

It’s not easy to keep your eyes on every health story. These days they seem to be coming at us thick and fast it can be hard to maintain a broader focus. But while stories of GMO health threats and a worsening obesity crisis seem to grab most of the headlines, a little acknowledged story […]

One of the immutable truths in the life of a journalist is this: the moment you take a holiday, an interesting story breaks. So it was that while I was recharging amidst family and friends in the desert in America’s Southwest, the world’s first lab-grown hamburger was unveiled. The tiny patty of beef was the […]

GM foods are safe to eat – that’s what we are told time and time again. So many people have eaten them that if there was any possibility of health problems we would have seen it by now – that’s what our regulators and politicians keep saying. And yet an article published in of all places, the […]

We read a lot about ‘risk’ in our office. Comparing the risks of certain things is always tricky and sometimes the facts just get lost in what seems to be an escalating noise about how threatening and unsafe the world is in general. Several things have caught my eye in the last week or so. […]

In the midst of a growing list of bizarre decisions taken by the current UK government – particularly with regard to the environment – the recent commitment to growing more genetically modified crops must surely come out on top, argues Pat Thomas… As environment secretary Owen Paterson made his speech at Rothamstead, the location of […]

It’s one of those statistics that you actually have to sit down to contemplate. According to a new study nearly 70% of Americans are taking at least one prescription drug, more than half take two, and 20% are on five or more. The most commonly-prescribed drugs, said the researchers at the prestigious Mayo clinic, are […]

Some people might ask why this website, which is mostly concerned with natural health, has taken it upon itself to become more and more outspoken about genetically modified food. Why not, instead, just post a lot of nice articles about how good organic is, rather than how bad GM is? What does GM have to […]

It’s been another one of those weeks where natural medicine has come under attack. A new book by a vocal natural medicine critic Dr Paul Ofitt claims that vitamins and herbal remedies can kill you. These same old arguments by the same old people are getting to be more than tedious and I just have […]

Last weekend more than 2 million people worldwide joined a March Against Monsanto. While Monsanto has become the focus of many people’s justified ire, the real issue extended beyond the company that has brought us such scientific ‘miracles’ as Agent Orange and aspartame to the continued skulduggery of all the biotech companies including Syngenta, BASF, […]