one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
July 08 2010
A crop-killing fungus is spreading out of Africa towards the world’s great wheat-growing areas.
March 29 2010
Junk food may be addictive in the same way as heroin or cocaine. Laboratory rats will endure painful electric shocks to satisfy their craving for high-calorie snacks.
October 28 2009
McDonald's leaves Iceland.“What the company actually said was that it can no longer compete with Icelandic fast-food joints that rely on local produce”
June 28 2009
Today in The Zombieconomy. The articles linked to from that post are well worth a read too.
May 28 2009
No idea if standards are any different in Europe but this article about frozen foods doesn’t sound too good.
July 25 2008
If you want to do your bit for the environment, the best thing you can do is reduce your meat intake or completely eliminate it.
July 07 2008
This is surreal: a High Court judge has ruled that Pringles are not potato crisps in a debate over food tax.
May 01 2008
Very interesting article on the myths of organic farming. It’s difficult to make an informed opinion though when the article takes several shortcuts. As usual, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
March 18 2008
Food fight
January 06 2008
Interesting audio interview with Michael Pollan concerning his latest book: In Defense of Food. His previous bestseller, The omnivore’s dilemma, was one of the finest texts I’ve ever read about food.
July 14 2007
Organic farming can feed the world
June 04 2007
don't focus on just one element“the focus on food miles is missing the bigger picture and may be counter-productive”
May 06 2007
Interesting summary of the current dangers of biofuel use as well as future, more sustainable, directions the industry might take.
April 05 2007
Synsepalum dulcificum, the miracle berry, makes sour foods taste sweet.
April 03 2007
Organic food is better for our health. On the flipside, some of it is less energy efficient, producing more emissions.
March 27 2007
competition between cars and people“The governments using biofuel to tackle global warming know that it causes more harm than good. But they plough on regardless.”
February 01 2007
Join the mouth revolution now!
January 29 2007
Michael Pollan in Unhappy Meals“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
January 16 2007
Would a Robin Hood Restaurant work here? I doubt it. Just getting round the legal implications would be near-impossible.
December 09 2006
An interesting article that goes some way into explaining why people don’t change even when faced with overwhelming evidence they’re heading at full speed towards an unstable if not deadly future.
November 01 2006
hydrogenated ingredients are everywhere“Would you melt tupperware and put it on your toast?”
October 15 2006
How organic is getting lost in the world of big business
August 28 2006
Rice contaminated by GM has been on sale in Europe for months. The US government has known about this since January but has kept silent.
August 20 2006
How salty is our food?“many food packets talk about sodium content rather than salt content. To make sense of this, you need to know that every gram of sodium is equivalent to 2.5g of salt”
August 16 2006
After the book: fast food nation, the movie.
August 12 2006
Christopher Dawson on processed soya“I will only use a product for my family if there is 200 years of tradition behind it. You are asking for trouble if you take an isolate from soya”
August 07 2006
Burger King let you make your own movies to promote their pseudo-chicken burgers, so I made my own.
July 30 2006
You don’t want GM foods? Too bad, the EU and Monsanto say you’re getting them anyway.
July 26 2006
Richard Manning on the oil we eat“Every single calorie we eat is backed by at least a calorie of oil, more like ten”
June 06 2006
This McDonalds Interactive announcement feels like a hoax. The domain name is owned by the same people who run the McDonald’s Video game and hosted at the same place in Italy.
June 01 2006
Interesting interview with Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemna, on local food systems, organic produce and the fabricated cult of convenience from ready-made everything.
May 31 2006
Joel Salatin, organic farmer.“When you think about it, it is odd that something as important to our health and general well-being as food is so often sold strictly on the basis of price.”
