The olive harvest: the money in olives has always been an enemy of tradition and quality Photograph: David Silverman/Getty Images Book review: The Observer, Sunday 15 January, 2012 Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller Is there any foodstuff as dodgy as olive oil? Human beings have been defrauding [...]
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Olive oil – 5000 years of fraud and poisoning
Posted in Agriculture, book review, olive oil, The price of food, Uncategorized, tagged cocaine trafficking, tom mueller, virgin olive oils on 15/01/2012 | 2 Comments »
Paying more for Fairtrade cocoa is key to ending child labour
Posted in Going green, The price of food, tagged chocolate, cocoa, fairtrade, oxfam, sierra leone on 30/09/2011 | Leave a Comment »
30th September 2010 The Times To eat chocolate is to enter a moral maze. It has been associated with indulgence and sex and more recently, justice To eat chocolate is to enter a moral maze. It has always been associated with indulgence and sex — if you believe the advertising — and the newest selling [...]
Making £50 a week taste better
Posted in The price of food, UK food, Uncategorized, tagged £50, fifty pounds, food costs, Sainsbury's, supermarket prices, weekly shop on 07/07/2011 | Leave a Comment »
7th July 2011 The Times Two months ago, Sainsbury’s launched a “value” marketing drive, with TV and press campaigns, promising to feed recession-hit families for just £50 a week. The first menu was depressing with its pseudo-bargains, unlikely extravagances (a £5 bunch of grapes) and lots of tinned and frozen food. These included some sausages [...]
British farmers and the supermarket price wars
Posted in The price of food, UK food, Uncategorized, tagged farmers, grocery market action group, national farmers' union, price, raspberries, supermarket, supermarket price wars, the guardian on 02/07/2011 | Leave a Comment »
British farmers forced to pay the cost of the supermarket price wars The Guardian, Saturday 2nd July2011. As profits soar at the supermarkets, food producers say they are being forced out of business by unfair buying practices. You can pick up a punnet of British raspberries – at their best this weekend – on a [...]
Can you feed your family on £50 a week?
Posted in The price of food, UK food, Uncategorized, tagged family, food price, Sainsbury's, supermarket, supermarket prices on 19/05/2011 | 1 Comment »
May 19th 2011, The Times Sainsbury’s believes you can, but when Alex Renton took up the challenge, he found his household of foodies and fussy eaters had serious misgivings. Eighty-four meals, £50, one happy family, say the new Sainsbury’s adverts. They promise to feed a family of four for seven days for less than the [...]
Chocolate gives Sierra Leone’s villages new hope
Posted in sierra leone, The price of food, tagged chocolate, cooperative, fairtrade, kpeya, Kuapa Kokoo, sierra leone, Wata Nabieu on 19/09/2010 | Leave a Comment »
19th September 2010, The Observer Civil war and poverty have ravaged Sierra Leone, but now the fair trade movement is helping to rebuild the lives and dreams of the country’s cocoa farmers Wata Nabieu takes the chocolate bar and carefully unwraps the top. She giggles at us watching her and breaks off a piece, giving [...]
