Richard Higgins

Dr. Graham Teackler

was featured on Farming Today as a genetic researcher on low fertility soils. He has bred a new variety of Brussell Sprout that will do well on soils with low fertility. This is erroneous in that healthy soil conditions makes for health giving crops. And the point of eating food crops is to get healthy……Everyone

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Mark Owens

BBC TODAY programme featured an interview with Mark Owens on supporting GM technology. Mark Owens has not done much research into GM technology. The family he found in Tanzania who had a viral infection on their cassava crop is due to very poor soil conditions – not the lack of GMO technology.

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FOOD CHAIN BBC radio 4

To improve people’s health more refrigerated vehicles are needed world wide to improve the transport of fresh fruit and veg to retail outlets. For example India wastes more food between production and sale than any other country. More lorries mean more CO2 emissions. Refrigerated vehicles are difficult to improve on their carbon footprint (types of

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Campylobacter – help the NHS reduce its £43 BN deficit on un-healthy eating

The NHS is said to have a massive deficit for the problems resulting from poor nutrition. BBC Farming today is talking about campylobacter  on chicken. There are some 280,000 cases of food poisoning in the UK every year. Oxford Martin School – University of Oxford ‘Eating habits must change to protect people and planet’, urges new

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