There are fears that food has become too expensive for the very poor. We look at the debate about solutions. Organic farming? More chemicals? Vegetarianism? GMO’s? The market? Government interference?
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Why we posted this: It’s a commonplace that The People are angry with capitalism and that’s why there’s protest on the streets, and it ought to be heard by our leaders. But actually, isn’t the big surprise that there’s so little protest and that there is little evidence that people think capitalism is dead, or anything like it? More »
Themes: Food / Green / Money. Posted by Richard D North on April 3rd, 2009
Why we posted this: The idea that protest is almost always good and being strict with it almost always bad is not necessarily sensible. So why shouldn’t the UK government consider blocking a legal loophole used by lawyers and juries to let protesters off? More »
Themes: Campaigning / Food / Green / Politics / Rights. Posted by Richard D North on December 31st, 2008
Why we posted this: The idea that Africa needs missionaries is surprising to a generation brought up to believe that indigenous cultures are always preferable to “white” interference. But the case is made tellingly in this piece. More »
Themes: Food / Rights / Society. Posted by Richard D North on December 27th, 2008
Why we posted this: McDonald’s may be recession-proof – and may even be outliving the snobbery which has surrounded the firm for decades. More »
Themes: Food / Money / The Good Corporation. Posted by Paul Seaman on August 7th, 2008
Why we posted this: Two important but probably silly books have had silly (politically-correct and right-on) reviews in right-of-centre papers. We need to work out why. More »
Themes: Food / Green / Money / Truth & Trust. Posted by Richard D North on July 18th, 2008
Why we posted this: Here we post some wonderful (and mercifully concise) ways into issues like feeding the world and African agriculture. More »
Themes: Food / Green / Money. Posted by Richard D North on June 11th, 2008
Why we posted this: Anti-GM campaigners feel very free to say the likes of Monsanto are liars – especially when the firms say they can help the Third World. The campaigners are making a very serious charge. Let’s check it out.. More »
Themes: Food / Green / Money. Posted by Richard D North on May 30th, 2008
Why we posted this: Paul Collier is valuable and realistic on helping the “bottom billion”. More »
Themes: Food / Green. Posted by Richard D North on April 17th, 2008
Why we posted this: It’s the beginning of serious thinking about a major new problem. More »
Themes: Food / Green. Posted by Richard D North on April 17th, 2008
Why we posted this: The Daily Telegraph usefully helped us see that Jamie Oliver’s “successful” school dinners campaign may have done harm as well as good (as well as being loud-mouthed and sometimes misinformed). More »
Themes: Campaigning / Food / Media / Politics. Posted by Richard D North on April 9th, 2008