Food and Health

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen Anna* went into labour at around 5am in her prison cell, she pressed the call bell five times but was ignored, she…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries because of…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe European Union has cancelled the use of several pesticides, and heavily restricted  others. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minutePregnant women were today reminded that they shouldn’t eat ready-to-eat cold-smoked or cured salmon because of the listeria risk. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minutePouring coffee into a takeaway cup releases 25,000 microplastics in just 15 minutes. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFizzy drinks are said to be undeniably linked to a silent killer plaguing British children. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNearly 90 per cent of alternative milks do not deliver the same nutrition as cow’s milk, a study has shown.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTubs of formula line supermarket shelves; their packaging awash with promises to satisfy hungry, colicky or reflux-hit babies. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDuring the pandemic the Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford turned food into a hot political issue in the UK with his campaign for every…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNew peer-reviewed research has identified 25 kinds of toxic flame retardant in human breast milk in the US, and all samples contained at…