Regulating Herbal Practitioners – What’s the Hold-up?
On 16th February 2011, then-health secretary Andrew Lansley MP promised to make herbal medicine a state-recognised profession. Now, the UK government may be about to break this promise. Ironically, the various skeptic groups who complain the loudest about how herbal medicine is ‘completely unregulated’ have also been the most vociferous opponents of statutory regulation of […]
Monday was a very good day for bees. The EU, for once, stood on the side of the angels and voted to suspend the use of three toxic neonicotinoid pesticides. But the victory came with conditions. The suspension is only for two years. It could be reversed if, in the interim, scientific data can show neonics […]
The Arctic. You know, that remote place that ‘explorers’ like to conquer but beyond that that has nothing to do with the rest of us. Well it turns out that the Arctic is with us every day. It’s right here, in our homes and our gardens; and inevitably what we do the the Arctic we […]
What we do to the bees we do to ourselves. Imagine what it must be like to forget your way home. To not be able to communicate effectively with others, especially those you live with. To forget the faces, colours, sounds and smells that have been the landmarks in your ‘map’ of life. These things […]
Soya – How the World’s Healthiest Food is Making Us Sick
Whether you know it or not, and whether you intended to our not, you’ve probably eaten soya today. Within a few short decades soya has infiltrated our daily diets to a spectacular degree. Believe the marketing hype and this ‘traditional’ plant-based food, which is sold in a variety of different forms, not only fights cardiovascular […]
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 […]
“We’re busy doing nothing, working the whole day through, trying to find lots of things not to do…” Imagine that chorus being sung by an admixture of government ministers, supermarket supremos, catering conglomerates and meat-packers and you have the essence of the official response to the the horsegate scandal. Today it emerges that the Government […]
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.
