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Category Archives: Food & drink

Don’t mind the pesticides: the great organic food study scam

July 31, 2009 – 5:42 am

The biggest benefit claimed for organic food is that you know what you’re eating i.e. you’re not eating pesticides. Yet, the UK Government spends a bucket of money on a study of studies that ignores the key claim:
“There may be a difference in pesticide residues but they didn’t test for that in this paper, and [...]

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Morally, food is the new sex

February 11, 2009 – 9:11 pm

We stress about food. We think obesity is not just a disease but a moral failing, killing animals for food is not only bad for us it is a major cause of global warming. But when it comes to sex we go out of our way not to be judgmental. Headline-seeking politicians are much more [...]

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President Rudd bans fun

December 9, 2008 – 3:47 pm

Paul Syvret has a brilliantly funny piece in Brisbane’s Courier-Mail (let’s hope those fierce puritans John Della Bosca and Nicola Roxon still have a sense of humour: 
AUSTRALIA, 2014: President Rudd yesterday extended the Federal Government’s list of banned internet sites to include any material relating to takeaway food. “After constructive ongoing dialogue with a diverse [...]

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Sunday lunch, Al Aseel, Greenacre

November 9, 2008 – 4:42 pm

We had a great lunch at this place today with some friends including Paul Caggegi from The Process Diary, a blog and podcast focused on ‘the how it’s done of film animation’, a niche interest which is getting Paul some serious international attention. I love hearing about all the different interests that can find expression [...]

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