How unhealthy are ultra-processed foods?
Ultra-processed foods are commonly portrayed as a modern health scourge: a threat lurking on the shelves of every supermarket linked to obesity, heart disease, cancer and early death. Researchers warning…
Big Food’s natural brand acquisitions prosper best when left alone
When Hormel Foods Corp, maker of Spam canned meat, said it was buying Applegate Farms in May, fans of the organic and natural meat company lamented its takeover by Big…
Elusive economics of natural resource
It has been for sometime that I have been advocating the use of natural organic fertilisers. The reason is that chemical fertilisers have made our soils toxic. The excessive use…
Walking is a blessing
Walking is such a blessing. You realize when, for one reason or the other, this God given gift is restricted or hindered due to some accident or disease. Walking has…
Save soil, save life
SOIL is our lifeline. It sustains life with a variety of foods, holds and filters water to provide us with clean and safe potable water and maintains ecological balance by…
Guerilla gardening
THERE are those who complain, and then there are those who take action … and the residents of Kenya’s Kericho county fall squarely into the latter category. Kenyan roads are…
Protecting breastfeeding
BREASTFEEDING is a natural way of nourishing newborns and young children. In the modern age, however it has become endangered. The onslaught of milk formulas — so-called breast-milk substitutes —…
Possible need for price controls
‘The Reagan-era policies also paved the way for China’s rise. As Weber’s scholarly work shows, China’s economic strategy in the 1980s relied on price controls with slow adjustments, similar to…
Where is Brand Pakistan?
We live in a world of brands. The cars we drive, mobile phones we use, outfits and colognes we wear, accessories we carry, and fancy foods we consume are mostly…
How not to waste food
The International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW) was observed on September 29, 2023. The theme of this year’s IDAFLW was ‘Stop Food Loss and Waste; for…
